How to format a corrupted pen drive?

[sudeep_hm]

I have got a transcend 4GB pen drive now suddenly it stopped working.The drive is shown but if I double click then it says drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?. This is the problem.
I tried almost all methods which when I googled and got the results.But sadly none of them are useful till now.
1) Tried through windows disk management tool.error said cannot be formatted.Disk is write protected.
2)HP pen drive formatting software and got the same result.
3)Paragon partition manager again the same.
4)I followed the steps to the remove write protection through registry editor by putting value "0" instead of "1" and followed the above all steps but still no results.
5)But i thing which I could not follow is through windows disk management tool. I dint know where to find the create partition when I click on the removable drive (as suggested from few). I only tried to formating, changing the drive name etc.
please If any one knows the solution then help me.I cannot send it to the company since I dont have any documents.
But yes, some can say throw the pendrive and get a new one. But of course I can always do that. But still I wanted to know what is the solution for this kind of problems.:confused::confused::confused:

[EPCO]

It seems you may need to do a low level formatting! Sometimes you may recover your flash drive

First - you should try to recover your existing data - pci file recovery software (http://www.pcinspector.de/)(use this sw and it's free)

Then do a low level format using a low level formatting utility - try this (http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool.shtml)

I hope this will help and good luck.

PS: I am not responsible for any data lost or any damage to your flash drive.


I have got a transcend 4GB pen drive now suddenly it stopped working.The drive is shown but if I double click then it says drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?. This is the problem.
I tried almost all methods which when I googled and got the results.But sadly none of them are useful till now.
1) Tried through windows disk management tool.error said cannot be formatted.Disk is write protected.
2)HP pen drive formatting software and got the same result.
3)Paragon partition manager again the same.
4)I followed the steps to the remove write protection through registry editor by putting value "0" instead of "1" and followed the above all steps but still no results.
5)But i thing which I could not follow is through windows disk management tool. I dint know where to find the create partition when I click on the removable drive (as suggested from few). I only tried to formating, changing the drive name etc.
please If any one knows the solution then help me.I cannot send it to the company since I dont have any documents.
But yes, some can say throw the pendrive and get a new one. But of course I can always do that. But still I wanted to know what is the solution for this kind of problems.:confused::confused::confused:

[sudeep_hm]

no brother. It is showing errors on some sectors.please any other suggestions.

[sudeep_hm]

come on guys. some one must be knowing the answer.

[thilangr8]

a friend went through the same probz with the same type of pen drivers
couldn't fix it so had to return

[blackhole]

Try to make Partition with Linux. Then format it as EXT3.
:rolleyes::rolleyes:

IF problem fixed, Reformat the pen as FAT32.

Here the linux tool that run on windows:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/old-gparted-livecd/

[hmdmph]

using shell u may get-on this problem

mount the pendrive under some linux os (most of them mount pen drive as /dev/sda1)

then

unmount it (umount /dev/sda1)
format it (mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1)


if this got succes :D
if not you hav to use some other linux tools GParted or QParted or fdisk
and format

[shakya256]

mamath try karala balanna oni