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My USB is shown on disk management as "unallocated". I ran:

chkdsk /f /r d:

it told me that my drive is RAW type.

So I tried using diskpart. My volume is shown as unusable so I selected it and entered:

create partition primary

but diskpart returns with an error:

DiskPart has encountered an error: The device is not ready.
See the System Event Log for more information.

I've tried cleaning the drive entirely with:

DISKPART> clean

but it still fails and returns with the same error.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: My USB is also an EFI system partition. I just want to clean it and use it as a USB though.

EDIT 2: My USB now shows no media and 0 bytes in Disk Management

Why the Question is not a duplicate: I've tried all the steps listed everywhere I could find to recover my usb drive. The marked question wants to recover their data, I want to recover my usb drive and don't care for my data as there is hardly anything apart from a live linux distro on it.

EDIT 3: The USB in question is a Strontium Ammo 8GB (AUTO Firmware). I've tried the repair tool on the site. Usb is still not working.

Grimlock
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As others have noted, the root problem here is that your USB drive is dead.

There is nothing practical that can be done to repair the drive. The correct course of action is to give it a good funeral and a peaceful sleep.

music2myear
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Sounds like this USB was a Live USB for an operating system or something similar. I would like to know if there are any listed partitions in this USB in Disk Manager. However, you can try this...

If there are in fact any listed partitions for this USB in Disk Manager, delete them.

If that doesn't work, try adding a partition to this USB via Disk Manager and format it as NTFS or exFAT or something like that. Then when it's created, expand the partition to take up the entire USB, and format it. Sort of like tricking it...

Then if this doesn't work, download a linux Live USB tool. No, don't boot linux Live USB. Instead, use this tool to format the USB drive.

I have been in a situation similar to this before. I wrote Linux to a flash drive, and the only device that Windows could see was the 800kb sector that wasn't written to it. I forgot exactly how I erased it, but it was something similar the steps above.

KALI99
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