Windows 10: Need Help To Get My 256 GB USB Stick Back

Apparently I've made a serious mistake here. Did a Macrium Reflect Rescue Media and a Back-Up to this 256 GB Flash Drive. That exercise took over a half hour for what used to take less than 20 minutes. Didn't realize process reformatted it to FAT32. Tried Disk Management to deal with getting me back to NTFS and the 256 GB capacity. I blew that and right now it won't even format. I really need this thing as a hedge against tomorrow's expected WU. Where do I go from here? Help! Appreciate your time, thanks.





Keep in mind, if I knew what I'm doing I wouldn't have done this in the first place.

:)

 

Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

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USB sticks not recognized...sometimes...Help?

Hi,

To better understand why this happens, please answer the following questions:

• Did this start to happen after installing updates on your computer?
• Does the USB stick work when you plug it to another device?
• Do you get any errors when you connect the USB stick to your computer?

Let's try to run the troubleshooter available on this
page while your USB stick is connected to the computer. It will tell you if it detects anything and automatically correct it.

Let us know if you have questions.

Keep us posted.