Here's a quick tutorial for wiping all partitions and cleaning everything on the USB Flash Drive on Windows. 1) Open command prompt 2) diskpart 3) list disk 4) select disk 1 5) clean Twitter: / microwavesam
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@tastydirtydan9882 жыл бұрын
Thank you for not stretching this to 10 - 15 minutes for no reason. Very useful
@jonthebru3 ай бұрын
Eight years later I used a large flash drive to experiment with Linux and found the problem you solved here. After I did my fiddling with Linux I discovered that the drive couldn't be used for any other purpose. With this video I followed step by step and solved the problem, now it is usable again! Thank you very much!
@johndavid3598Ай бұрын
Same here. Making Linux bootable USB drives really messes my USB drives up.
@codesurferdev8 күн бұрын
No nonsense, no long intro, straight to the juicy bits, THANK YOU!!!
@CloneWalker12342 жыл бұрын
straight to the point. i find myself continuing to return to this video everytime I have to wipe a USB drive. thank you
@2endcliffe7 жыл бұрын
great vid easy and I got my 16gb flash drive back. thanks from uk
@armandokrulc38225 жыл бұрын
so you have the only video on KZbin that truly shows every step corectly and everything works on the end
@aMAXproduction5 жыл бұрын
Dude thank you so much! My flashdrive hops between a Mac and PC a lot so things get wonky when I mess with them. But this clears it all up! You're a savior.
@finkitsallover2 жыл бұрын
My drive now doesn't appear at all
@adam.walker5 жыл бұрын
I used a 16GB flash drive to install Linux on a old laptop and after I was done I had no idea how to get my drive back, This saved me!
@randomname15198 жыл бұрын
I have been with this channel since the wii homebrew videos
@MicrowaveSam8 жыл бұрын
+Random Name Hey Random Name, appreciate it! It sure has been a long time since 2011!
@UnreadyPlayer9 ай бұрын
That easier than I thought. Thanks for not beating around the bush, I just saved what I thought was a broken thumb drive
@dylanbessent80948 жыл бұрын
I just want to thank you for all you videos you've made. I learned a lot through every single video. It gave me an interest in technology and now I'm looking into CompTIA Certification. Hope to see an increase in uploads and honestly, you deserve more subs in my opinion.
@ExitoxminutoBlog6 жыл бұрын
great! worked ,you are the man!
@-Snstrm5 жыл бұрын
This video is over three years old at this point and it still works fine for me. Thanks for the helpful advice.
@alfmea Жыл бұрын
This comment is over 3 years old at this point.
@crossed82 Жыл бұрын
@@alfmea For sure, and it just fixed my issue too! Lol It's great to see a six year old video still being relevant in the PC world.
@frajozelro195411 ай бұрын
At last! I finally found a tutorial that fixed my particular USB problems. The "New Simple Volume..." tip 3:05 made the difference. Thanks.
@fredlao66556 ай бұрын
i yanked the thumb drive before assigning new drive letter . Failed , inserted thumb drive n finish the video where new letter is assigned and it worked . Thank you sir !!!
@KhamziTheAfricanAIGuy Жыл бұрын
This helped me in 2023, Thanks bro. keep doing what you do
@wally38132 жыл бұрын
Thank you, had like 18 viruses on the drive and like 18 partitions but I got the drive back thanks to your video
@Stay_Positive_live10 ай бұрын
The most usefull tutorial of all time thanks for 5 minutes of pure doing something and it accualy works I'm a programmer and the satisfaction from this tutorial working is extreme! Leaving a sub and a like!
@EdwinSteiner8 ай бұрын
Thanks! Very useful and to the point. P.S.: It seems to help to use "exit" to leave diskpart after "clean" has completed, before creating the new volume. Before I did "exit" diskpart, disk management seemed to block when creating the new volume.
@TaeConSui5 жыл бұрын
Man, i don't speak english, so in spanish: Excelente tutorial, de verdad. No conocía este comando de Windows y gracias a él he revivido mi pendrive. Muchas gracias.
@orangesnowman71372 жыл бұрын
Traducción al inglés: Excellent tutorial, really. I did not know this Windows command and thanks to it I have revived my pendrive. Thanks a lot
@AstrlJelly5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I had 10 partitions for some reason, and this put them all together. Thanks for the very helpful and useful guide!
@whateveryouwantinthepowder38803 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! i tried to install chrome OS on my USB drive to try it out. but then the program that said it was installing it onto my USB drive actually just made 23 partitions and formatted it in a way where windows can't read it. THIS VIDEO SAVED MY USB DRIVE THANKS SO MUCH!
@muzakeer44952 жыл бұрын
A 6yr old vid helped by saving a lot of time thank you ❤️
@arghyadas41384 жыл бұрын
Best Tutorial Ever on KZbin
@raaska92124 жыл бұрын
no comment to describe how grateful i am. man
@cyril33957 жыл бұрын
You saved me man!I almost thought i destroyed my USB Flash Drive.Thanks!!!!!
@dannysadana5775 Жыл бұрын
Thank you , Flash Drive is working at full capacity.
@user-ll2ed3lt4gАй бұрын
Thank you it worked. One of the guys said he’s drive didn’t appear it was the same with me but we were both idiots and we didn’t go right to the final steps exactly like in your video.
@Musoholic2110 ай бұрын
Such a simple procedure it was . In other videos I even don't know what I am doing
@AutisticFloppa6 ай бұрын
legend, my 2d drive was showing up as 3 drives for some reason and this fixed it.
@maurog36573 жыл бұрын
I was searching for a tutorial video on this and i found your video! My USB drive is now fixed. thx!
@venkatashivaji4 жыл бұрын
Simple and the best i found after going to a lot of videos
@balaji40456 жыл бұрын
My usb flash drive dead in 8months and watch your video I am recovery my drive thanks sir most useful video
@kafu19654 жыл бұрын
Not even trash . Works 2019 . Is one of the best tutorials I ever saw on youtube. I tried it and it works . You are explaining really but really good❤
@joelstolarski22444 ай бұрын
very nicely explained and nice to see the closeups of screen while doing the usb in a side panel. otherwise would have to do full screen and keep switching back and forth. usually use 2 laptops to do tutorials sometimes
@NeedlessTv_5 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I flashed my 8 GB USB with windows 10, and this somehow destroyed the partition. Your tutorial helped me fix it.
@inorgagroni5 жыл бұрын
Awesome - quick and simple. I had to close Computer Management and reselect the disk in diskpart (gave error "DiskPart has encountered an error: the device is not ready. See the System Event Log for more information."), but other than that, worked flawlessly! Thanks so much
@detody39855 жыл бұрын
Bro thank you so much. You really help me a lot, i thought i killed my USB by my wrong doing. A BIG THUMBS UP👍😀
@brb-ok80724 жыл бұрын
worked. now i can stay at home with my mrs during the lockdown.
@SharpCosmos4 жыл бұрын
This helped a lot, for some reason my flash drive was registered as 3 drives and little space in all of them but after what you showed me, boom problem solved.
@catthing33983 жыл бұрын
This works well, this increases the size to the max the USB can hold normally, nice video!
@helicap117 ай бұрын
Superb!! Short, easy, informative!! Very helpful!
@johnkasonga66345 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. I was able to clean my USB after watching this video.
@tomy7411005 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! Got back my flash drive. Ps: I will never use Rufus again.
@dnetne55085 жыл бұрын
lmao I was doing it for it haha
@sidharths94165 жыл бұрын
Hahahhahaa same here. But now we got the solution isn't ? So we can use it again
@sirius8163 Жыл бұрын
This is a really good and simple tutorial. Keep up the great work!
@ceejcake2 жыл бұрын
Worked! I bought a drive off of Amazon and it had like 30 partitions not sure why but this fixed it
@rexcowan43145 жыл бұрын
Perfect help video. Had to make allowances for Windows 10 but it worked perfectly. Saved my usb from being thrown out the window.
@gacerra12 жыл бұрын
Worked great, other videos didn't work. this one did thanks
@leepinnguin96826 жыл бұрын
OMG, thanks, you saved my 64GB flash drive for college!! I appreciate it very much!
@BinauralBae9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this. Came in handy when my usb wasn't playing nice updating my music gear firmware
@jeromety36203 жыл бұрын
wow quick , simple, easy , what else! thanks man, still useful more than 5 years after! you saved my big usb key!
@RubenTommelein7 жыл бұрын
Thnx dude, Windows didn't showed my ubuntu programs on it so I couldn't delete them, now it worked, thanks!
@vneem37586 жыл бұрын
DiskPart has encountered an error: Access is denied. See the System Event Log for more information.
@satan8404 жыл бұрын
were you ever able to figure it out? im stuck with the same issue
@HamburgerTrain135 жыл бұрын
Had Raspian on an SD card that had it all partitioned and messy, this video was extremely helpful. Thanks.
@Borensvids7 жыл бұрын
thank you, your still helping people in 2017
@prestozable5 жыл бұрын
OMG watched so many other videos on how to do this! This one actually helped!!!
@inxnite40712 жыл бұрын
thanks dude i tried to install linux on my usb drive but it ended up kinda corrupted so this helped alot you deserve my sub
@igorgo45285 жыл бұрын
NOTE = in case your Windows 10 has active "Windows Defender Security" -> you must deactivate (switch OFF) Defender, than proceed all steps as in the video. Otherwise your "clear" command in diskpart tool will fail (not executed). Thank you for real help )
@faheemahmedumrani17103 жыл бұрын
Finally a solution video that worked in one go!
@goldenpotatobull4 жыл бұрын
Still works in 2020! Thanks for the help my guy!
@noxxejv71633 жыл бұрын
Still works as of March 17, 2021, thanks for the tutorial bro!
@Sotheli5 жыл бұрын
Extremely useful, thanks dude! MemTest86 partitioned a flash drive I had from 2g down to 250mb (and didnt work anyway). Couldn't merge the partitions back into one contiguous one! Worked like a charm.
@kirosun4 жыл бұрын
searching for command prompt doesnt work however, this solved my issue in mere moments after spending hours and hours trying other crap
@masongodat56953 ай бұрын
Perfect still 8 years later.
@Kevtly7 жыл бұрын
Instructions were clear and I managed to fix my usb! liked and Subscribed ❤
@amandawilson70716 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!!! I have been trying to reset mine for weeks with no success.. This worked like a charm!
@jewelkitkatmylady24695 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much instead of running to a family gru of comptuer problems i fixed my own problem. Through your very easy youtube video. Diffently made me feel empowered and more confeident in my computer skills. Thank you so much.
@Cpt.-Sparklez8 жыл бұрын
@MicrowaveSam Yes for number one and three, however, for number two that's where I have issues, I was able to somehow get to the disk clean up wizard without having first cleaned the usb on command prompt. I'm able to do everything else, but locate the usb on prompt. (Note I did use it to instal tails on it before, not sure if part of a partition is corrupting my usb or something) Thanks a bunch man!
@therealspadezz3 жыл бұрын
thank you so much! I cleaned all the data on the flash drive (willingly) in command prompt and it took forever to figure out how to make it exist again haha
@JoeytheKangarooTech Жыл бұрын
TYSM! I needed a flash drive so I could install Windows Developer Preview on my ThinkPad!
@santetzuken89032 жыл бұрын
Thanks. This worked on my usb flash drive with a bootloader and an old hard drive with linux OS on it.
@kedarlokhande49996 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, It was so irritating to see that small 144 MB partition, this worked really well.
@SRJones-ss5sh4 жыл бұрын
Diskpart does not wipe a USB drive. It merely allows someone to blow away the prior partitions & reformat the USB drive. Until the prior data is overwritten, it can be recovered. I do such all day every day.
@JO_Artificial4 жыл бұрын
OMG, I’ve looked for all alternatives, thanks bro, this has helped me out a bunch.
@DanCastDanny Жыл бұрын
Still works on windows 11 in 2023, Thanks!
@vin8532 Жыл бұрын
Worked as expected. Thank you for these simple steps!
@bedhead2315 жыл бұрын
Fixed my old flash drive thank you!
@DabooksofEli2 жыл бұрын
helped me out in 2021, thanks for the info man.
@mikemartin38774 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Recovered my Flash drive and all working again. Thank you
@adiss29745 жыл бұрын
I found this video so useful. Straight forward, to the point and it still works in 2019!
@patrickterino2017 жыл бұрын
Ily my 64gig has been brought back from the dead
@onskull73657 жыл бұрын
i have a little problem now if i go to check the propertys it says plese incert disk
@AllThatSheWants213 жыл бұрын
Thank you, this fixed my broken SD card, couldnt get any data from it but thats okay there was Nothing Important on that anyways, im just happy to be able to use it again
@TomTerrific8 жыл бұрын
Great tip that I have never needed until this last few weeks. Easy to follow and it works - THANKS!!!!!!!!!
@JetteroHeller834 жыл бұрын
My 400gb micro SD card is working again. Thank you.
@blitzblink6855 жыл бұрын
you're a legend for this thank you so much
@danishamin3975 жыл бұрын
1st time got my prob n just 2:41mins (not watching full tuturial) u r rock bro,keep it up.❤️🙂
@samwithauri5 жыл бұрын
Straight to the point. Worked like a charm. Thank you.
@vancemilford95126 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video. Got my flash drive back to normal.
@rexmagi46067 жыл бұрын
Thanks man this was one of the few helpful partition-based videos lol.
@amateurtakeongaming4298 Жыл бұрын
After command 'clean' You can use 'convert mbr' Then 'create partition primary'
@alanhart999218 күн бұрын
Nice clean instructions
@EliteGamingEntertainment4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. I had 3 separate partitions on my USB and for my KZbin this became a nightmare. Followed the steps you took and i now have 1 partition as 32GB. The other videos had no voice over making it so irritating. Thanks again
@icemanff238 ай бұрын
Thanks for your video it helped find the missing properties
@braydonellis67785 жыл бұрын
Thank you, it worked and now i have my 32gb flash drive back
@calimotolife51945 жыл бұрын
U are the best man alive thanks so much. I been try to figure this out for hours
@hellogray8786 жыл бұрын
Omg thx so much mate i had this 128gb usb flash drive but it came under 1mb now its all back thx.
@soldadosirio4717Ай бұрын
thank you so much saved me from buying new usb
@SweetlilAngel5 жыл бұрын
You are legendary! Thank you so much for your help! It was easy to follow and great advice!