Hi
I'm hoping someone will be able to help here.
I have a no name 4gb USB stick which I'm aware there was a small problem with (one or two bad sectors) but I had continued using it for the odd thing here and there.
The other day, it started playing up and I have managed to recover some files of interest using recovery software but would have liked to recover everything.
So I decided to use win 10's chkdsk when it suggested it should be scanned to fix issues.
After it's done it's thing, the drive reported 0kb and cannot format - system just doesn't recognise drive as valid media (when double click, it says 'please insert media').
Under disk mgmt, it's there, but there's no unallocated space / valid partition to work with.
In recovery software, there's no drive to work with.
Is it the end or is there still hope?
Thanks!
I'm hoping someone will be able to help here.
I have a no name 4gb USB stick which I'm aware there was a small problem with (one or two bad sectors) but I had continued using it for the odd thing here and there.
The other day, it started playing up and I have managed to recover some files of interest using recovery software but would have liked to recover everything.
So I decided to use win 10's chkdsk when it suggested it should be scanned to fix issues.
After it's done it's thing, the drive reported 0kb and cannot format - system just doesn't recognise drive as valid media (when double click, it says 'please insert media').
Under disk mgmt, it's there, but there's no unallocated space / valid partition to work with.
In recovery software, there's no drive to work with.
Is it the end or is there still hope?
Thanks!
