How to Fix USB Device Not Recognized | Restore USB Drive to Default Settings | Corrupted USB Drive

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Did it work for you guys?

[@motocrusader]

yes

[@ImadSulaiman-ji6dw]

it did not, the clean command did not succeed What should I try to solve it?

[@gachamoviesandgames34]

Its works

[@lazixm]

nope, it says : Please select a volume and try again

[@chips7049]

yes. thank you so much

[@toniantal.8878]

You are a real professional. I had 3 USB sticks with corrupted files and I was thinking of throwing them away.All 3 have come back to life! Thank you very much!

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Thank you my friend. I'm so glad you found me and that you saved your drives!

[@naraharipabbathi1636]

what if I cant see my drive in that list? what will be your inputs for that.

[@GNFgeekstuff]

Thank you I had a corrupt USB drive for my security cameras and have not been able to get it working again, I followed multiple methods I found online and the same method you used but yours showed more steps and it worked, I will add this info to my geek tools and solutions USB drive as I also help people out with issues in person or remotely as I am a self confessed geek. I found your channel when i stumbled on Ask your computer guy channel and he mentioned your channel. looking forward to looking through you videos to expand my knowledge thank you.

[@Moonpoolcat]

Thank you! Was wondering why I couldn't send an application to my usb because it couldn't detect it but it worked like a charm! I'll be sure to come back here in case it happens again.

[@spxzia]

UR A LEGEND, I always use diskpart to format my computer but never thought on using it to recover my pendrive.

[@VinodKumar-bp5nz]

In my life this is the first video which successfully cleared my query, thanks a ton

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Happy to help

[@quatoms]

Thank you for this video I almost damage my drive until I watch this video it's very helpful.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

So glad you found me first!

[@David-sy3lj]

Fixed my Kingston 256gb usb, used exfat Worked like a charm, superb instruction got my usb back Many thanks and Good Karma to you

[@tonygarciabc]

Hi, I hope all is well. I followed the steps and succeded in 1 of 2 pen drives. The one that worked failed again. I went through the same process and is not able to format, I get this message: 0 percent completed Virtual Disk Service error: The media is write protected. I can not go anywhere from here. It does'nt have any pshysical lock. Thanks !

[@0xfrian]

Thanks Nico! I was struggling to get my Windows PC to detect my USB drive for some reason. Inputting the same commands into my Windows terminal worked like a charm!

[@bitsmithfx]

Awesome...worked perfectly and super clear instructions...

[@jimmyguard2532]

That did work for me! I tried a whole bunch of other nonsense before this. Thanks man, glad you do what you do.

[@JayWhiteJay2XLC]

Worked great on my Patriot Rage2 Supersonic drive , thanks my friend!

[@holymoly4524]

diskpart not seeing it so i unplug and re-plug a few times it sees it again

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Oh did you find a way to make it work for you?

[@mcmike446]

Worked for me to recover a SanDisk Cruzer using a VirtualPC Windows 7 running in a Mac. Thank you for your video.

[@ryson2.0]

Thank you bro,it worked!!!

[@mainul005]

So useful Tips. Thanks a lot.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Most welcome!

[@DuaShifa786]

Thanks buddy. I recovered my pen drive today following your instructions ! highly obliged & must commend your modest style!

[@turmakids1995]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much!

[@avelmortena1590]

it works for me but my usb doesn't appear in my file explorer I need to go to computer management and then format it there but the process you said is effective thanks a lot sir.

[@ethanrice1345]

wow that actually worked, I was about to throw away a TB thumb drive but this video saved me.

[@30ramsfan]

Thank you very much for this brilliant video. It worked for me. You are very patient and perfectly clear in your delivery.Bravo🎉

[@SKRJIY]

Thank you So much for everything ❤

[@NicoKnowsTech]

You are so welcome Thanks for commenting

[@nabil8bit]

thank you soooo much , the tutorial is easy and up to the point ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@stevem6677]

Nico, thanks for all your past video's, could you possibly do a walkthrough on Tron Script and show a layman how to turn the switches off for certain programs as I'm guessing this would be massively helpful to myself and other viewers, thanks in advance, ps, a run through on your personal disinfection technique using tools we've not heard of would be the nuts. Cheers bud.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Great suggestion!

[@GAMER_NNN]

No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created). i received this when i said to create partition what can i do

[@lord_andre]

Simple and usefull tutorial, thanks dude :)

[@NemencioRas]

Sometimes a physically unresponsive usb disk can be fixed by cleaning up the connection points with isopropyl alcohol or contact spray. Try that as a last resort.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

You are absolutely correct!

[@inceptionaslife]

THANK you so much bro, U R a legend, a lot of youtubers i see have all the comments in their video that say it works for me or they are a big help, nah they're bots, but it genuinely works for me. Thanks a lot.

[@ShankPlays]

Awesome! It worked..thanks a lot

[@johnhenryayo555]

Well... my problem is a suppose-to-be USB 3.0 64gb of Kingston DT SWIVL can't be detected on USB 3.0 port; 2.0 does. What are your thoughts on this?

[@LesG-cp1qy]

Thanks!

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Welcome! Thanks for the super!

[@granitstatovci8928]

I followed every step of your video and we have the same pen drive "Kingston Datatraveler" but when I am writing the command for selecting the disk 1(pen drive in my case), it says : "The disk you specified is not valid. There is no disk selected." It should be because in the 1st step the disk is not online but Unknown. -- I tried many times to put in and out from the port but no results... Any information how can I fix this?

[@jackellis48]

Thank you, very very helpful

[@DaveTechGuyCT]

It worked PERFECTLY. Thank you, Nico!

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Awesome! Glad it worked out for you and thank you so much for commenting about it!

[@user-xx4fg3gw4r]

Detail disk shows Disk Id = 00000000, Status = No media, Final message = There are no volumes. Tried "create volume" and variations but nothing worked. "create partition did not work cuz there is no volume. USB sometimes shows up in File Manager but mostly NOT. Disk management assigns it a drive letter but no option to format it. From day 1, this flash drive had problems that Windows noticed within 1 minute and suggested a format which I did but now its gotten worse. So my question is "How do I create a Volume onto it"? Thanks!

[@chrislaine8807]

Awesome video! Thanks so much!!

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Awesome dude! Glad it worked out for you.

[@ketan6182]

umm... my pendrive ended up getting detected in the cmd, but after doing what you said, it still does not appear in the file explorer. What do i do?

[@AshwanikumarSainiARTER]

Thanks Nico it worked for me. I chose exFAT instead of FAT32. So windows does detect the usb as a general usb and the word Kingston doesnt come. There was a kaspersky virus which I had to get rid of perhaps I got it from a reprographics shop while getting a print.

[@nikaldo7819]

select disk 3 Disk 3 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> detail disk SMI USB MEMORY BAR USB Device Disk ID: 00000000 Type : USB Status : No Media Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : UNAVAILABLE Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No There are no volumes. DISKPART> clean Virtual Disk Service error: There is no media in the device. DISKPART> create partition primary No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created). any help please?

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Hi Nik. That error typically is a memory controller failure. Physically broken.

[@nikaldo7819]

damn...ok thank you my friend for your time...i will check the pcb if something is broken...if im lucky@@NicoKnowsTech

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Let me know if you have time. @@nikaldo7819

[@chetan_naik]

Didn't work for me. Looks like my tablets USB port itself has gone bad. I inserted slightly old corroded pen drive, it worked for a day and suddenly stopped working. Now my Windows tablet doesn't recognise any USB drive from that port. Unfortunately the tablet has only one USB port. The drive is not even recognised in the BIOS. I am at a loss for ideas. I wanted run linux from the flash drive as old device had become sluggish.

[@ImWeedy]

flash drive doesnt show up in the list disk command in the elevated cmd... it's like it doesnt exist and it does it to all flash drives, corrupted or not...

[@BrunakoPAO]

Hi ! Thanks for the vid. Sadly it didn't work. I managed to get through all the steps provides but still the device won't show up in file explorer

[@DalitsoSimbani-po3ef]

@nichoknowstech is there a video of how to retrieve data from Android phone of which its data was wiped/hard reset and was not backed?

[@NicoKnowsTech]

I will make one for you.

[@DalitsoSimbani-po3ef]

Wow.that will be very nice@NicoKnowsTech

[@Hachi4473]

thanks bro

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Welcome

[@reesiekups]

Great video; thanks for this!

[@mrdaimond-o5g]

thanks bro it worked

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Awesome! Glad it worked for you.

[@MajidKhan-wb6cd]

In diskpart where i go to list disk it show my usb with size 0 & free 0 withh no media. What is the solution please

[@randyandy7042]

@@MajidKhan-wb6cd same for me

[@trishandlitafan00]

I have a USB that is not recognised. It is not working on laptop, PC or smart TV so the stick is the problem. I have worked stored on my USB that I need. How do I fix this?

[@MikaHolic_Channel_OFFICIAL]

my usb won't even show up, it says "set address failed" coupled by code 43 or 45. How to fix that?

[@Lampart14]

you sir are a magician!

[@olman944]

Great video. Really helped me out! Thanks!!!

[@Mrblacknose]

Worked like a charm. Thank you!

[@arsdigitalia]

Please update your command for Win11 because "format fs=fat32 quick" is giving me error while "format fs=FAT32 quick" did the job. Thank you anyway, my pendrive is live again!

[@adarshambastha1343]

Worked For Me, Thank you for this easy tutorial

[@googlieking]

Hi Nico, I bought two usb T2 and one has a serial number and the other says Flash U_disk3.0-0:0 for a serial number. My Network does not recognize the usb without a serial number how do I update the firmware to get a serial number? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[@iguanatrader3781]

Thank you so much, saved my USB drive!

[@golfgod11]

This worked perfectly, thanks for the video

[@johnpaulcaballero2795]

when i hit clean, this prompt appear "DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information"

[@R0CK3T_DEV_]

so if diskpart just halts at "clean" it's a hardware issue? if so, that's really confusing it was working just fine after i got it (which was brand new), but while I was sharing some files from my drive to it, it suddenly disconnected out of nowhere. and now it's all corrupt and I can't even format it 😭😭

[@soufianetazi-dh2ww]

this is such a great video, thanks!

[@user-zj5el7rf5w]

No it's says there's no volume when I try to format or create a partition it just keeps toggling back and forth.

[@iamstevetosh]

In terminal windows, my 512GB flash drive is showing 8mb what's the likely solution please?

[@younoob3290]

I followed all the steps but it's still not accessible any suggestions?

[@spryatol2808]

Thank you so much.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

You're welcome!

[@kevinstif1674]

I have a flash drive that was damaged before and it did not want to be formatted, so I downloaded its firmware, but the flashing failed in the end, so I removed it from the computer and reinstalled it, and it did not want to show me the disk space, but the computer recognizes it as a USB connection only and does not recognize it. On it as a flash drive 😢

[@Ola_hu_Uber_ki_MKB]

Bro it shows that "DiskPart has encounterd an erroe: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the system event Log for more information." Please help😢

[@ozzyrocks666]

Thanks bro

[@mustafawalji7232]

my usb disk is offline when I detail disk when I type in online volume I get a message " DiskPart could not online the selected volume" How do I get round this please

[@dennishagans6339]

I am running vista home, and I have a 2 port USB 3.0 card, works great in windows xp, but not vista so I was trying to update the drivers using iobit driver booster 7, and unfortunately it did not set any restore points, the thumb drive was working but now only the usb hard drive will come up in that port. I am considering buying the full vista ultimate and just formatting that drive and doing a clean install, This system is kind of unique, 3 sata hard drives each with its own operating system, and using the boot menu I can choose which drive comes up, soon that will be a hardware choice as I ordered a 4 port sata power switch, basically shutting off power to any of 3 drives, using a switch to control which drive comes up. Anyway due to the uniqueness of this system, floppy controller port, IDE controller port, 4 sata ports, I said Ill make this thing triple boot, XP Pro, Vista Home, and Dos 6.22/win 3.11 each on its own bootable drive, this is just for nostalgia, no gaming, just to see if I can make all three work and play music and get online I have to replace the dvd/cd drive with a cd only drive so that dos/win 3.11 can access it, got an old Creative/Ensoniq PCI card coming that is supposed to work with dos and win 3.11, already have the dos drivers downloaded for this card. for win xp and vista ill have a USB DVD/CD-RW anyway the trickiest part will be getting win 3.11 online, I have some PCI modems, I am hoping I can get one of those to work. I have tried uninstalling that port in the device manager, as it is not running because it has a problem, but the next time i reboot, it just puts that driver right back, the usb 3.0 card I got XP drivers for it and it works in XP just fine, I was hoping to get it running in vista as well, I kind of like to see my device manager all nice and working with no devices showing a problem.

[@huzaifagardening2477]

Hi hope you are well! My PC is facing problem it's infected with Win64/Expiro virus I saw ur video on how to remove it but it didn't work I tried twice but it's not working 😢😢

[@farisfrp]

this was really helpful...........

[@NicoKnowsTech]

I'm glad it helped.

[@peterwassmuth4014]

Yupp it did work fine. JetFlash Transcend 64GB USB Device

[@NicoKnowsTech]

That's great Peter! Thanks for telling me!

[@AkosuaBiggles]

It worked out thanks very much

[@NicoKnowsTech]

You're welcome!

[@ibrahimmahdaly6217]

that's great video sir

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Thanks and welcome

[@fredericklowe568]

Yes work perfectly Thank you

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Excellent!

[@realmartin.minkov]

Worked thank you !

[@josejimenzdimbai]

Did you please create video to restored files from mass storage device.

[@sadravin1]

diskpart cant see drive. windows cant see drive. only shows up in bios and with windows iso. iso cant format it cuz it is usb

[@tr4p_master285]

Ok you saved my flash drive, thank you!!

[@spro7795]

Mate thank you so much!!

[@jamescurrie6944]

hey so I tried it with 2 drives I own and one I just bought. not are recognized and all are not showing in the list disk. so I don't know how to fix my computer. Please like to help?

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Maybe a problem with the USB port on your computer. Can you try a different one?

[@DaveTechGuyCT]

So, Nico, I have a USB issue I cannot figure out... I have a USB stick that is formatted exfat, and worked a week ago in my HP laptop. Now, it does not auto-open when plugged in. I can see it if I use diskpart > list disk, or look in Device Manager. I just cannot access the data inside. I have tried it in other devices, and it works fine. Just not in this specific laptop. I ran through cleaning the USB, creating a primary partition and reformatting it (I tried ntfs and exfat) twice, but it still does not show up. It even does not show up when booting into Safe Mode. I've plugged it into two other Windows laptops, my Windows desktop, my MacBook Pro and my Chromebook, and ALL other devices open it just fine. Is there something you can think of to get it to open on this laptop? It's an HP running Windows 11 Pro, version 10.0.22631. I'd really like to not junk this USB.

[@DaveTechGuyCT]

I even uninstalled and reinstalled it from Device Manager. Still nothing.

[@thchala1208]

hello nice work my usb flush driver works only 2.0 port and not working on any other pc any hellp ty

[@RK707__]

bro i want to hug u THXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[@NicoKnowsTech]

hugs are free

[@densaldanha]

This actually works thanks!!!

[@BlindedByThisElegance]

Thank you so much sir.

[@ethinix.]

Yes. It worked

[@fanitram]

my list disk is empty, what to do?

[@robyngevas1761]

It's not a flash drive, it's an external hard drive that is beeping and losing data due to the faulty firmware that seems to stop and start every usb connection I have.

[@gin3143]

USB device is a broader term. It does include not only USB flash drives. But others like mouse, keyboard, receivers, etc. For witch you solution will not help.

[@LittleBluefire3po]

Mine show. But said virtual disk service error: no media on the device. Also said no volume. It does show that it's connected but I won't show me anything or allow me to even connect it. It's not physically damaged either.

[@randyandy7042]

Same for me

[@obaidyalbushaher]

i failed to do this method because tell me there are no volume

[@maqmaniac77]

My drive must be physically damaged. nothing works, says "no media on device".

[@driftyapankardanadam]

Can someone help me? I have a USB drive which I was using since 2019. I formatted it to NTFS and I moved a 6 GB ISO file to it with no folder in it. I was gonna plug it into another PC and install the game but when I plugged the drive in, Windows said ''USB Device Not Recognized". USB was working like half a hour ago, I was in shock when that happened. I tried everything I can to get the USB to work, but there is no sign of it working. It does not even appear on File Explorer, only at Device Manager as "Unknown Device" with the code 43. Can someone help me to make it work again?

[@ManThisIsTooMagical]

Bro, A virus was using cmd to connect to the internet and steal my data. I want to check cmd history. Should /How do I do it? It happened 3weeks ago I found some solutions in yt but like looks like that also runs the commands. How do i do it safely

[@NicoKnowsTech]

It is most likely not stored in a log. Try event viewer but I wouldn't have high expectations.

[@intermixhector2902]

ok my have watch this other youtrube like you because i got recovery key lost it

[@Kjeld93]

Mine doesnt even show up in list disk

[@user-jb2yi5tf8b]

so i had a virus on my laptop and i tried your scirpt tron video and it got rid of the pop ups, but the wifi glitches on my laptops whenever i even move the laptop the wifi is fine on everything else but i dont know why ot does it,i cant even push my laptop back a little bit and the wifi already disconnects and then it show me the BSOD, i really need help, i have no clue what it could be, please help thank thank you

[@NicoKnowsTech]

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