What are some low level ways of fixing this?
USB drive shows up but I'm unable to format it or read it or mount it.
Tried gparted and a handful of other meme tools with no success. I run windows, linux, and osx, so you can recommend any tool for any of those operating systems.
Google has been of no help, just a bunch of retards saying to use diskpark or gparted which doesn't help for this type of problem as those programs cannot recognize it either.
/g/ pls, surely someone here has a job.
gparted
change format to msdos and partition it fat32
>>51867740
Try it on an other computer. If that doesn't work, then it's dead.
Try DISKPART on windows.
>>51867931
gparted doesnt detect it
>>51867957
diskpart doesnt detect it
The machines still know something is plugged in and the name though.
>>51867740
Could be physically defective.
did you try other ports?
did you back it up?
Sounds like It's Fucked to me.
>>51868119
Yes and no. I'm no longer worried about the data and just want to recover the flash drive. I realize they are cheap, but if this works it will help out in the future.
>>51867991
>>51868161
It is fucked, but some kind of low level firmware flash or some shit will fix it.
>>51867740
Use this OP, if it can see it will format it to the correct size.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
>>51867740
Sounds like it's broken...
>>51868851
An app called USBDeview is able to see the drive information. It also comes up on windows and linux but you cant mount it.
>>51868825
Doesn't detect it.
I found a site (flashdrive-repair.com) that makes me feel like I'm on the right track but now I'm still somewhat lost. I need some neckbeard firmware knowledge.
