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Can't open or format a USB key

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  • 16-03-2014 4:17pm
    #1
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I bought two lexar usb keys and wa using them for reformatting pc's - I was mounting windows iso's on them. One has totally stopped responding. I put it in and it show;s up as "Removable Disk" - clicking on it says "Please inset disk into removable disk (E:)"

    I can't seem to format it either.

    Any idea how to fix this?


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    HereIBe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭HereIBe


    Try this stuff


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    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Thnaks, that's perfect it worked!

    So while ont eh subject I have an SD card that is 8gb but only shows as 1gb. Went into disk management tried to format it but only part of it is there, the rest I cant seem to do anything

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    Any ideas?


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    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    I think you could just format the second partition ,in control ,panel, admin, storage .
    format in fat32, filesystem ,same as the first partition.

    i do this on hardrives,
    eg resize,ing partitions.
    after partition is formatted,to 6.24 fat32
    use free program Gparted to resize the 1st partition. to fill up the full 8gig disk.
    i NEVER used it on an sd card .
    Theres probably programs you can download to format sdcards.


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    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    IF you are gonna use Gparted ,reboot pc first,
    after format of partition 2 is complete.


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