usb drive error

Question

My usb flash drive has been giving me some issues now i flashed a linux iso to it to boot and it did after flashing the linux iso to it the drive doesnt show up in file manager but shows in partitions but under unallocated but now when i tried to format it with aomeri disk partition it doesnt show the option only to wipe disk and i did but now it shows the whole usb drive as unallocated and aomei cant rebuild partitions because it claims the drive is offline and disk partition says its read only and when i tried chkdsk that says the drive is raw and the usb drive is showing up in or as a portable device in device manager diskpart shows i/o device error when i try to clean it and ive also used diskpart to set readonly off but the drive still shows current state readonly i don't even know what to do again and lest i forget there is no storage device policy in registry to turn off readonly what can i do please help

Answer 1

Hi Tosin,

If that option is grayed out, then I am sorry, that drive has failed, flash drives are very volatile and they can fail at any time.

Answer 2

its greyed out it wont let me select it

Answer 3

Hi Tosin,

What is the exact error you see if you right click the 'Unallocated Space' and select New - Simple Volume?

Answer 4

but the drive shows that the partition is there but that its just unallocated isn't it still recoverable and also i connected it to my other laptop and opend easus but when i tried to create partition it said failed cause the disk is write protected

Answer 5

Hi Tosin,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Try plugging that flash drive into another PC and check to see if it works .. .

If not, there are a few unrecoverable errors we get on flash drives, like 'Write Protected', 'Insert Disk' 'Offline' and 'You need to format the disk'.

If AOMEI cannot format or partition that drive, then you will find 'fixes' all over the Internet, none of them work, sadly the drive cannot be repaired