Generally, your drive is not functioning correctly.Your drive shows up, but when you try to write, it crashes and disappears.Your drive status light flashes but nothing happens on the OS.The format utility also displays a capacity of 8mb no matter the size of your drive. This guide will also aid in the recover of ghost drives and return the flash drive to it’s actual capacity.Ĭheck to see if your drive exhibits any of these behaviors: If you are asking questions like “I can’t format my usb drive! Whats wrong?”, you may want to read on. Today I am going to provide a helpful guide to recover broken USB drives, ghost drives, and drives unable to be formatted. Check out Ben’s comment in particular about Chip Genius, the tool is very useful to ascertain what controllers/NAND you are working with.
As some commenters have mentioned there are better ways of going about recovering Flash drives at this point. Beware of following this guide on modern systems. EDIT: This information is very out of date at this point.
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