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What is the best utility to recover and format a USB flash drive?

Asked by UScitizen (4306points) May 5th, 2010

USB flash drive has become unusable in XP. Windows sees it, but won’t read it or write to it. When I click on it in explorer: “Please insert a disk into drive X” response. I really don’t care about recovering data. I would simply like to get it into action again.

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Lightlyseared's avatar

They are so cheap noe that its not worth the effort. Also if it failed once it may fail again when you do care about the data on it.

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richardhenry's avatar

It sounds like it’s failed to me. If you bought it recently, you could return it. It may also have a warranty period.

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XOIIO's avatar

Have you tried right clicking and pressing format?

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