Flash Memory Stick - HELP

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My Patriot Supersonic Pulse, was formatted by Memtest86+ and seems to be completely destroyed. MT formatted it for a boot run. Since then it has no volume, no files system and Windows7 64bit cannot format it.

What next?
 
Use Disk Management to create a new volume.

So go to disk management, find the USB drive, right click on Unpartitioned space > New Simple Volume...

and the rest is pretty self explanitory :)

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I had this problem the other day after I formatted a USB stick to install chrome on a (very old) laptop.

Ended up having to use "Gparted"
google it
download the iso
burn it to a CD
boot with the CD
plug your drive in and use the partition tool to delete/format/whatever to get it back to its original state.

My Stick was so buggered that windows disk management saw about 7 unknown partitions that it could not delete, and explorer would not even show it, so all the 3rd party windows format tools went out the window. Gparted did the trick in about 5 mins.

Good luck

-Edit - Gparted is free
 
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