You are a real professional. I had 3 USB sticks with corrupted files and I was thinking of throwing them away.All 3 have come back to life! Thank you very much!
Thanks Nico! I was struggling to get my Windows PC to detect my USB drive for some reason. Inputting the same commands into my Windows terminal worked like a charm!
Thank you I had a corrupt USB drive for my security cameras and have not been able to get it working again, I followed multiple methods I found online and the same method you used but yours showed more steps and it worked, I will add this info to my geek tools and solutions USB drive as I also help people out with issues in person or remotely as I am a self confessed geek. I found your channel when i stumbled on Ask your computer guy channel and he mentioned your channel. looking forward to looking through you videos to expand my knowledge thank you.
Go through Nico's process again. When you get to the "details" list, look at the bottom where is shows "Volume, Ltr, Label", etc. and look to see if you have a (drive) letter assigned under the "Ltr" header. I'm guessing that it is blank. If it is, in the cmd window type "assign" and it will automatically assign a drive letter, which is needed for the file manager to see the drive. Close the cmd window and reopen the file manager and you should be able to see it now.
Detail disk shows Disk Id = 00000000, Status = No media, Final message = There are no volumes. Tried "create volume" and variations but nothing worked. "create partition did not work cuz there is no volume. USB sometimes shows up in File Manager but mostly NOT. Disk management assigns it a drive letter but no option to format it. From day 1, this flash drive had problems that Windows noticed within 1 minute and suggested a format which I did but now its gotten worse. So my question is "How do I create a Volume onto it"? Thanks!
when i hit clean, this prompt appear "DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information"
Hi Nico, I bought two usb T2 and one has a serial number and the other says Flash U_disk3.0-0:0 for a serial number. My Network does not recognize the usb without a serial number how do I update the firmware to get a serial number? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
no it didn't work. And the drive won't even show up on the bootloader/ i have a transcend usb that i bought for 123 dollars with a bunch of linux distros on it. i wanted to transfer the contents to a bigger storage device like a 2tb flash drive but now something went wrong.
so i had a virus on my laptop and i tried your scirpt tron video and it got rid of the pop ups, but the wifi glitches on my laptops whenever i even move the laptop the wifi is fine on everything else but i dont know why ot does it,i cant even push my laptop back a little bit and the wifi already disconnects and then it show me the BSOD, i really need help, i have no clue what it could be, please help thank thank you
select disk 3 Disk 3 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> detail disk SMI USB MEMORY BAR USB Device Disk ID: 00000000 Type : USB Status : No Media Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : UNAVAILABLE Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No There are no volumes. DISKPART> clean Virtual Disk Service error: There is no media in the device. DISKPART> create partition primary No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created). any help please?
Hi, I hope all is well. I followed the steps and succeded in 1 of 2 pen drives. The one that worked failed again. I went through the same process and is not able to format, I get this message: 0 percent completed Virtual Disk Service error: The media is write protected. I can not go anywhere from here. It does'nt have any pshysical lock. Thanks !
Please update your command for Win11 because "format fs=fat32 quick" is giving me error while "format fs=FAT32 quick" did the job. Thank you anyway, my pendrive is live again!
LIFE SAVER!! My thanks to the Computer Guy for steering me over to Nico when 3 of my (expensive) flash drives became unusable after trying to put a utility program on them. I offloaded the content from each USB onto my HD before proceeding with the utility, so I was safe from that POV, but I was upset not to see them in the drive list when I got a fail msg during the (utility) installation process. Here's something to point out in your process: on the first USB that I tried your process, the drive still did not show up after running thru all the commands. I noticed that at the bottom of the details list where it shows 'Volume', 'Ltr', 'Label', 'Fs'... 'Status', this particular USB did not have an assigned "Ltr" listed, so I figured that the file mgr wouldn't see it without it. Turns out I was right. I ran the "assign" command and it automatically assigned a drive letter to it and it came up in the file mgr.... whew!! I also thought it interesting to take note of the "Status" of the USB. They all started out as 'not readeable' or something like that. By the end the Status changed to "Healthy", which I was happy to see. All is right with the universe now and I may try reloading that utility which I need to fix my WIN 10 no-boot issue now that I know how to repair the USB if I have the same problem. Thank you, Nico (and the Computer Guy)!
flash drive doesnt show up in the list disk command in the elevated cmd... it's like it doesnt exist and it does it to all flash drives, corrupted or not...
Thank you! Was wondering why I couldn't send an application to my usb because it couldn't detect it but it worked like a charm! I'll be sure to come back here in case it happens again.
Didn't work for me. Looks like my tablets USB port itself has gone bad. I inserted slightly old corroded pen drive, it worked for a day and suddenly stopped working. Now my Windows tablet doesn't recognise any USB drive from that port. Unfortunately the tablet has only one USB port. The drive is not even recognised in the BIOS. I am at a loss for ideas. I wanted run linux from the flash drive as old device had become sluggish.
It went well till the 'clean' step. After entering 'clean' I got this message - "Diskpart has encountered an error,..." mentioning there is no such location
I followed every step of your video and we have the same pen drive "Kingston Datatraveler" but when I am writing the command for selecting the disk 1(pen drive in my case), it says : "The disk you specified is not valid. There is no disk selected." It should be because in the 1st step the disk is not online but Unknown. -- I tried many times to put in and out from the port but no results... Any information how can I fix this?
Thanks Nico it worked for me. I chose exFAT instead of FAT32. So windows does detect the usb as a general usb and the word Kingston doesnt come. There was a kaspersky virus which I had to get rid of perhaps I got it from a reprographics shop while getting a print.
No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created). i received this when i said to create partition what can i do
I am running vista home, and I have a 2 port USB 3.0 card, works great in windows xp, but not vista so I was trying to update the drivers using iobit driver booster 7, and unfortunately it did not set any restore points, the thumb drive was working but now only the usb hard drive will come up in that port. I am considering buying the full vista ultimate and just formatting that drive and doing a clean install, This system is kind of unique, 3 sata hard drives each with its own operating system, and using the boot menu I can choose which drive comes up, soon that will be a hardware choice as I ordered a 4 port sata power switch, basically shutting off power to any of 3 drives, using a switch to control which drive comes up. Anyway due to the uniqueness of this system, floppy controller port, IDE controller port, 4 sata ports, I said Ill make this thing triple boot, XP Pro, Vista Home, and Dos 6.22/win 3.11 each on its own bootable drive, this is just for nostalgia, no gaming, just to see if I can make all three work and play music and get online I have to replace the dvd/cd drive with a cd only drive so that dos/win 3.11 can access it, got an old Creative/Ensoniq PCI card coming that is supposed to work with dos and win 3.11, already have the dos drivers downloaded for this card. for win xp and vista ill have a USB DVD/CD-RW anyway the trickiest part will be getting win 3.11 online, I have some PCI modems, I am hoping I can get one of those to work. I have tried uninstalling that port in the device manager, as it is not running because it has a problem, but the next time i reboot, it just puts that driver right back, the usb 3.0 card I got XP drivers for it and it works in XP just fine, I was hoping to get it running in vista as well, I kind of like to see my device manager all nice and working with no devices showing a problem.
I have a USB that is not recognised. It is not working on laptop, PC or smart TV so the stick is the problem. I have worked stored on my USB that I need. How do I fix this?
USB device is a broader term. It does include not only USB flash drives. But others like mouse, keyboard, receivers, etc. For witch you solution will not help.
THANK you so much bro, U R a legend, a lot of youtubers i see have all the comments in their video that say it works for me or they are a big help, nah they're bots, but it genuinely works for me. Thanks a lot.
Sometimes a physically unresponsive usb disk can be fixed by cleaning up the connection points with isopropyl alcohol or contact spray. Try that as a last resort.
it works for me but my usb doesn't appear in my file explorer I need to go to computer management and then format it there but the process you said is effective thanks a lot sir.
Nico, thanks for all your past video's, could you possibly do a walkthrough on Tron Script and show a layman how to turn the switches off for certain programs as I'm guessing this would be massively helpful to myself and other viewers, thanks in advance, ps, a run through on your personal disinfection technique using tools we've not heard of would be the nuts. Cheers bud.
Can someone help me? I have a USB drive which I was using since 2019. I formatted it to NTFS and I moved a 6 GB ISO file to it with no folder in it. I was gonna plug it into another PC and install the game but when I plugged the drive in, Windows said ''USB Device Not Recognized". USB was working like half a hour ago, I was in shock when that happened. I tried everything I can to get the USB to work, but there is no sign of it working. It does not even appear on File Explorer, only at Device Manager as "Unknown Device" with the code 43. Can someone help me to make it work again?
so if diskpart just halts at "clean" it's a hardware issue? if so, that's really confusing it was working just fine after i got it (which was brand new), but while I was sharing some files from my drive to it, it suddenly disconnected out of nowhere. and now it's all corrupt and I can't even format it 😭😭
Bro it shows that "DiskPart has encounterd an erroe: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the system event Log for more information." Please help😢
It's not a flash drive, it's an external hard drive that is beeping and losing data due to the faulty firmware that seems to stop and start every usb connection I have.
Hi hope you are well! My PC is facing problem it's infected with Win64/Expiro virus I saw ur video on how to remove it but it didn't work I tried twice but it's not working 😢😢
my usb disk is offline when I detail disk when I type in online volume I get a message " DiskPart could not online the selected volume" How do I get round this please
I have a flash drive that was damaged before and it did not want to be formatted, so I downloaded its firmware, but the flashing failed in the end, so I removed it from the computer and reinstalled it, and it did not want to show me the disk space, but the computer recognizes it as a USB connection only and does not recognize it. On it as a flash drive 😢
