Is my 64GB Stick kaput?

[nantucket66]

I've got a Kingston 64GB USB stick

I connected it to my windows machine today and noticed it was only 115mb capacity.

I used the cmd prompt to clean/partition and format - all good, or so I thought. Later in the day I tried to move some files to the stick and windows told me it needed formatting first - Windows would not allow me to format. Kept reporting errors.

In Disk Management I could see the hard drive - all the other drives were blue showing used/available space, this stick was black and unallocated. Create new volume reported an error.

CMD is reporting errors if I 'select disk' and my iMac and MBP do nothing when I connect the stick to them.
Nothing mounted on desktop, finder, nothing in disk utility or system information.

Bin job or am I missing something?

Cheers

 

[demonix]

Is it just trying to format the drive and failing?

Are you formatting it in FAT32 or NTFS?

The last time I had an issue trying to format a USB drive in FAT32 with it constantly failing, I changed it so I formatted it in NTFS and it worked (it also allowed me to complete a FAT32 format of the drive).

If nothing can get the drive formatted, then it is hosed and only fit for the bin.

 

[nantucket66]

Is it just trying to format the drive and failing?

Are you formatting it in FAT32 or NTFS?

Yes, I've tried both FAT32 and NTFS, fails both ways.

I can't be chewed wasting any more time with it, new one coming tomorrow.