Darkebie Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 A friend of mine lend his usb key to someone who managed to kill it somehow. I tried a few things with diskpart to fix it but without success. He says he just removed the USB without ejecting it... Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- * Disk 1 No Media 0 B 0 B DISKPART> DETAIL DISK USB DISK 2.0 USB Device Disk ID: 00000000 Type : USB Status : No Media Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : UNAVAILABLE Current Read-only State : Yes Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No There are no volumes. Now I turn to you, anyone has a clue on how to fix this? The device is an Integral Courier 8GB USB stick. Any help is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimsland Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 There's a really good troubleshoot guide here: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic122125.html Also try this: HP USB Disk Storage Format Utility http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utili...als/SP27608.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkebie Posted June 5, 2009 Author Share Posted June 5, 2009 There's a really good troubleshoot guide here: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic122125.htmlAlso try this: HP USB Disk Storage Format Utility http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utili...als/SP27608.exe I tried the HP Utility and it gave me an error "Error: There is no media in the specified device.". I think it's an electronic failure. Thanks for your fast reply :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimsland Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 (edited) If its the same in another computer as well, then you can be sure its a USB failure of some sort Try this one as well: http://hddguru.com/download/software/HDDGU...p.2.36.1181.exe By the way, it won't format your HardDrive Edit Actually you select the USB drive when the program runs I just thought, hmm, if you had multiple drives or partitions, it is possible to mistakenly format those drives, but these drives will show very clearly, so don't format them ;) Edited June 5, 2009 by kimsland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars77 Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Does the drive come up in GParted? Also, like kimsland said try in another computer. If that still doesn't work you likely have a hardware issue on the USB drive, not sure if it's fixable.. I'd be curious if you end up fixing it somehow though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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