Had some corruption on my flash drive a few weeks ago, but haven't gotten around actually solving the riddle that is fixing this. I tried checkdisk, but it doesn't get access to the drive, the icon is hollow in windows.
I find this in properties: "XXXXXXXX&Prod_U167CONTROLLER" Have no idea what it means, but the X's don't look like they belong.
And yeah, if i try to manually access it in windows i get "please insert a disc"
which software do you recommend me booting up with in order to format/erase the flash drive?
And now i'm going to sound stupid, but what's RMA?
Oh, wait, I think I mistook your question as being for SSD. If it's a USB stick I can't be as helpful there. They reserve the bad NANDs for Flash sticks while keeping the good ones for SSD's.
I've never been able to rescue a dead USB Flash drive. It shows up as unformatted or similar and it doesn't matter what I do in any program, the flash drive is dead. You go to the manufacturers home page, register, go to support and apply for an RMA. You'll have to fill in a form with serial number etc. and then send the flash disk to the manufacturer. Unless it was an expensive drive the shipping costs themselves is inhibitory on returning a flash stick for replacement.
I usually stick with Hirens BootCD. It can boot into native dos or linux and have a ton of various tools to fix issues with.
Ok thanks. I've used Hiren before, so ill just play around with it and see what i can get out of it, and also try linux as shoshomiga said. It's a cheap stick so if it's dead i'll just replace it. But i'd rather not buy a new one before i know this one is really dead.
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