Cant format after wipe

[Mikey0426]

Hi,

I have a problem. After a wipe of my flash drive, I can't figure out how to re-format. When I insert the flash drive, it assigns it a drive letter. But when I click on that, it says "Please insert a disc into Drive X:" Right clicking on it and going to Format gives me the message "There is no disc in drive X: Please insert a disc to continue" When I go to disk managment, the drive letter shows up, but again, I can't click on it to format it.

Any suggestions????

Thanks.
Mikey

 

[kimsland]

HP USB Disk Storage Format Utility
Http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/peripherals/SP27608.exe

Will format any USB flash drive
It can be known to recover Flash drives that are un-responsive too.

Please let me know of the outcome

 

[Mikey0426]

Thanks for the reply. I actually just tried that before I posted. My flash drive is one of the options, although it is listed as a 0MB drive. When I click format, I get a message that "There is no media in the specified drive".

I have the same problem with two different brands of flash drives that I wiped, so I don't think it's a faulty drive. Just need to figure out how to format....grrrrrr.

M

 

[kimsland]

Why is it X

If you have network/Share/Virtual drives, these can interfere with it.

Also try formatting it on another computer (but don't say the word format to any friends computer!!)

 

[Mikey0426]

It's not really X, It was initially G, and I changed it to L just to try a different letter. I just said "X" as in a variable.....

I have also tried it on another computer with no luck....

 

[kimsland]

I have also tried it on another computer with no luck

Let's go with faulty flash drive then.