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Borked USB flash drive.

Terry · 2015-10-19 18:02:24

I was flashing the BIOS on a laptop to make it boot from legacy, and even though it was right beside me, and I was reading the instructions as I did it, and the instructions said not to leave anything plugged into the USB ports, I messed up. and left a flash drive plugged in. There wasn't anything on it that I need, but…

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19-10-2015 7:02pm

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Terry

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I was flashing the BIOS on a laptop to make it boot from legacy, and even though it was right beside me, and I was reading the instructions as I did it, and the instructions said not to leave anything plugged into the USB ports, I messed up. and left a flash drive plugged in.

There wasn't anything on it that I need, but I'd like to get it working again if possible.

It shows up in Disk Management, but when I try to format it, or add a drive letter, it won't allow me.

Anyone fixed this before?

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#2 19-10-2015 8:06pm
CreepingDeath

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I had an old USB key that failed to format or allow me to remove partitions.

This free tool resurrected it when all other attempts failed.

http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

It's free for simple use.

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#3 19-10-2015 8:37pm
Terry

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Worked perfectly.
Thank you very much.

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