How do you fix your USB flash drive?

Answer 1

If you Google "broken flash drive" or "repair flash drive" you will find a few companies specializing in flash drive data recovery. One of them will do it for $99 and only charges if successful.

Answer 2

1 Backup all data from your hard drive to another hard drive or CDs or DVDs. 2

2 Turn off your computer.

3 Insert the USB drive to a USB port.

4 Turn on your computer.

5 Hit the F8 key when prompted to get to your system bios. Some computers required the Delete key or F2 instead of F8. There should be a note on the screen that specifies the key.

6 Navigate your bios (usually using your cursor keys) to boot from CD drive first. Save and exit.

7 Insert your operating system disc aka Operating System Restore disc. Your computer should restart. If not, restart it yourself.

8 Follow the instructions for installing your operating system. When the option to select which drives to format comes, you should be able to see your USB disk in the list.

9 Format the disk with FAT32 for Win98 or previous. Format with NTFS for anything after e.g. NT, 2000, XP etc.

10 Depending on your options, you may be able to opt out of the operating system install at this point. If it was running well beforehand and you can, leave your other drives alone and quit the re-installation.

11 Reset the computer to boot from the disc drive the operating system is on instead of the CD drive as before. You should have your working flash drive detecting and usable now in windows.12 If you didn't get the option to opt out of the re-installation, continue to follow the instructions onscreen and complete the re-installation, formatting whatever drives are required. Note: Do not try to install your operating system onto your USB disk drive. Also be cautious when formatting to keep in mind all data will be lost.

Answer 3

First, check if USB drivers are properly installed. If so, the USB is probably physically damaged. In this case you should take your computer to a repair service, or - if it is a desktop computer - buy USB module and insert it in empty PCI/PCIe slot.

Answer 4

That depends entirely on how it is "broken." A corrupted file system, for instance, is probably a great deal easier to fix than if you have run over it with a car.

Answer 5

It depends what's wrong with it. A thousand things can go wrong. Nobody is going to write a thousand suggestions.

Re-ask the question stating what is wrong.

Answer 6

by another one...

Answer 7

go to the doctors