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

[@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.

[@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!

[@ViMarchetti]

I followed a bunch of tutorials trying to recover my flash drive until I finally found this video, thank you soooo much! If I had to open another link telling me to try a different port or computer, I swear I would’ve thrown my flash drive out the window

[@NicoKnowsTech]

@@ViMarchetti that's awesome! Glad you found me! You have a cool channel btw.

[@naraharipabbathi1636]

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

[@mikep.6271]

Go through Nico's process again. When you get to the "details" list, look at the bottom where is shows "Volume, Ltr, Label", etc. and look to see if you have a (drive) letter assigned under the "Ltr" header. I'm guessing that it is blank. If it is, in the cmd window type "assign" and it will automatically assign a drive letter, which is needed for the file manager to see the drive. Close the cmd window and reopen the file manager and you should be able to see it now.

[@FascinatingFacts-l3v]

@@mikep.6271 Thank you Mike, that brought my USB drive back into view!

[@spxzia]

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

[@LesG-cp1qy]

Thanks!

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Welcome! Thanks for the super!

[@mikep.6271]

LIFE SAVER!! My thanks to the Computer Guy for steering me over to Nico when 3 of my (expensive) flash drives became unusable after trying to put a utility program on them. I offloaded the content from each USB onto my HD before proceeding with the utility, so I was safe from that POV, but I was upset not to see them in the drive list when I got a fail msg during the (utility) installation process. Here's something to point out in your process: on the first USB that I tried your process, the drive still did not show up after running thru all the commands. I noticed that at the bottom of the details list where it shows 'Volume', 'Ltr', 'Label', 'Fs'... 'Status', this particular USB did not have an assigned "Ltr" listed, so I figured that the file mgr wouldn't see it without it. Turns out I was right. I ran the "assign" command and it automatically assigned a drive letter to it and it came up in the file mgr.... whew!! I also thought it interesting to take note of the "Status" of the USB. They all started out as 'not readeable' or something like that. By the end the Status changed to "Healthy", which I was happy to see. All is right with the universe now and I may try reloading that utility which I need to fix my WIN 10 no-boot issue now that I know how to repair the USB if I have the same problem. Thank you, Nico (and the Computer Guy)!

[@jimmyguard2532]

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

[@magnusfiskvik509]

Great video! In my case this didn't solve the issue though, but I found out that I had to manually add drive letter afterwards so that can be a sollution if this method don't work. Disk managment -> find your drive -> right click and select 'change Drive Letter and Formats' -> in my case it didn't have a drive letter so I press 'add' and select the available letter, and then it became visible again.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

@@magnusfiskvik509 this is great stuff! Thanks!

[@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

[@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.

[@sarah-maepedregosa937]

My newly bought USB just got corrupted and I didn't know what to do. Thank you so much for this video

[@NicoKnowsTech]

That's awesome Sarah! Thanks for telling me!

[@VinodKumar-bp5nz]

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

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Happy to help

[@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

[@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 !

[@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!

[@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"

[@55Quirll]

I think my has a physical problem, when I insert it when using Ubuntu or other Linux OS it shows up and I can open it but I can't format it. After awhile the Flash Drive disappears. I enjoyed the video you made for this, thanks. The Flash Drive is a Kingston 3.0 and is the only Kingston 3.0 that is acting this way. Again thank you for very good video.

[@TheDevilsAdvocate-ld8ds]

Brilliant work. Cheers. P.S. would be great to see how you retrieve data.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Great idea!

[@DuaShifa786]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@SKRJIY]

Thank you So much for everything ❤

[@NicoKnowsTech]

You are so welcome Thanks for commenting

[@things-have-changed4754]

thanks a million, the videos i watched before i got to you was ridiculous, cheers.

[@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!

[@jamesstewart9116]

Thank you so much yes it did work out perfect! Splendid!

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Glad I could help!

[@learningisbliss1143]

I had a usb drive that wasnt't seen at all in Windows, then found that it worked fine attached to a computer with Mint Linux. This is something else to try.

[@UIV7096]

I’m about to try this 🤞🏽 That intro was 🔥🔥😅🎵 as well as the USB Nope 👎🏽 lol Ok wish me the best ✌🏽

[@NicoKnowsTech]

@@UIV7096 let me know

[@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

[@ajayshankar3318]

Any solutions for removing Write Protection from an HP 64 GB flash drive? It doesn't have any external switches for enabling write protection. And the data on it is still intact. I tried all the usual tricks/tools including Diskpart and registry to remove the protection but failed. Thanks!

[@DaveTechDSS]

It worked PERFECTLY. Thank you, Nico!

[@NicoKnowsTech]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@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 😭😭

[@Subhluther835]

Hi, I used all the steps and did different formats but it is still not being recognized by my windows computer. I can see the device under Devices and Printers and remove the device but even after doing the commands it is not working. If it would be physically damaged it should not pop-up under devices and printers. Please advise. It is a Kingston Data Traveller pendrive 32 gb

[@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...

[@mcmike446]

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

[@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?

[@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 😢

[@jeromen7891]

Hey Nico I recently got this computer and when I try to use my usb it does not work and I use it on a laptop it works fine but when I try to do your tutorial and when I’m trying to find the disks nothing comes up at all not even my c: drive can you help?

[@samcohen343]

When I type in clean from the CMD prompt I get an error message saying Virtual Disk Service Error. There is no media in the device.

[@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.

[@atarascio]

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!

[@ahmedalaa7837]

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[@ethanrice1345]

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

[@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?

[@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?

[@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😢

[@nabil8bit]

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

[@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!

[@DaveTechDSS]

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.

[@DaveTechDSS]

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

[@edcrittenden206]

DIDN'T WORK! In the list disk the drive was not recognized. I have 2 of these tiny SanDisk 512 USB Drives that have done the same thing! I bought them to leave in my each of Surface books & act as a 2nd Drive. But at some point they became undetected & unusable! I have hardly used either which might be part of the problem?... I don't care what might be on either USB Drive.... I finally found time to run down this problem. CAN YOU HELP!!!

[@chancyfromtx8523]

Everything appeared to work, the USB now shows up and is formatted. However, now it says I currently don't have permission to this drive?

[@ThabangMzizi-m6e]

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

[@manjuvikas3952]

Thank you! It worked for me.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

You're welcome!

[@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 😢😢

[@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!

[@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

[@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

[@Miguel_Nam]

Mine shows up on the pc then disappears & then the error pops up saying unrecognized. It's not damaged right? What else can I do?

[@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

[@30ramsfan]

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

[@arzeldelacruz1716]

after the clean comman it says "diskpart has encountered an error: A device which does not exist was specified." need help 😢 thank you

[@JayWhiteJay2XLC]

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

[@bitsmithfx]

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

[@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?

[@V.Elly-F]

So you're saying if I do this, that my files on my malfunctioning USB drive will be all wiped out? My USB has files I need to recover from it.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Yes, this will wipe the data. If you need the data recovered and you cannot access the drive, you may need to consult a professional data recovery service. They will disassemble the USB drive and extract the data onto another medium.

[@V.Elly-F]

@NicoKnowsTech thank you, I might as well do that if no other method works.

[@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?

[@mainul005]

So useful Tips. Thanks a lot.

[@NicoKnowsTech]

Most welcome!

[@PersonalStorage-r8n]

Hey I tried all these remedies but none worked, But this did! I checked my msconfig general settings and notice I had selective start up ticked. So I figured maybe some needed drivers and servers were disabled over the years from tweaking my PC, so I selected Normal startup, rebooted, and sure enough that fixed my problem with my USB external drive not being recognized and disconnecting. Not only was that fixed, but a handful of Event Viewer errors, sudden KZbin video stream disruptions, and overall performance was fixed. Now I get a clean report on Event viewer system logs and my PC runs smoothly. I recommend anyone still having trouble to check your System Config settings by running msconfig in the windows search and checking the startup selection. If not on normal startup, tick it and restart and see if that works cause it work for me and then some. All right thats my helpful share, Take care guys!

[@lesquidytm3539]

when I typed "clean" it sent the following: "DiskPart has encountered an error: A device which does not exist was specified. See the system Event Log for more information."

[@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.

[@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.

[@ProffJoy]

After following these steps, please go to Disk Management -> Select the drive and right click -> Change Drive Letter and Path -> Then Add -> Select any alphabet you want which should not be same as other drives then format.

[@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?

[@abumounir7615]

It went well till the 'clean' step. After entering 'clean' I got this message - "Diskpart has encountered an error,..." mentioning there is no such location

[@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?

[@ajalamayowa7975]

Quiet great. But didn't work for me. May be it's physical damage. Kindly advice. Thanks

[@turmakids1995]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much!

[@iamstevetosh]

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

[@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.

[@reesiekups]

Great video; thanks for this!

[@andyang6725]

Thanks! You're a saviour!

[@thchala1208]

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

[@venkat2682]

Any solution for No Media error in usb pendrive(flash drive)?

[@lord_andre]

Simple and usefull tutorial, thanks dude :)

[@JustinArellano-v9l]

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]

Try my one click fix: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHubf6pvgpucpJI

[@VikasKesavan]

Thank you! It worked for me...

[@NicoKnowsTech]

You're welcome!

[@hitbyligtning9661]

it says "no volume selected" .. what do you do now ? thanks

[@ryson2.0]

Thank you bro,it worked!!!

[@Mrblacknose]

Worked like a charm. Thank you!

[@adarshambastha1343]

Worked For Me, Thank you for this easy tutorial

[@ShankPlays]

Awesome! It worked..thanks a lot

[@golfgod11]

This worked perfectly, thanks for the video

[@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.

[@lorenzodellisola8199]

My usb crashes command prompt when i ask it to clean it

[@bariqalislam]

it worked, thanks man😄

[@iguanatrader3781]

Thank you so much, saved my USB drive!

[@olman944]

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

[@younoob3290]

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