USB flash drive corrupted

p-o-db-o-q · Aug 17, 2022

Hello everyone,
Recently I wanted to create a bootable USB install drive with Zorin OS on it, burning it using balenaEtcher. Prior to that I didn't know balenaEtcher was terrible at burning .iso files and it commonly made USB drives unusable. Now, I have 32Gib of unusable space.
The drive in question is a Kingston DataTraveler G4 32Gb, it shows up in Disk Management with unallocated space, but not in Windows Explorer, Properties from Device Manager says device is working properly. Troubleshooter gets an error when troubleshooting the drive, shorting pins 31 and 32 puts it into test mode and Disk Management reports No Media, setting the correct settings for it in Phison MPALL v3.72.0B and pressing Start returns Driver : E: Mode 255 Flash No Support [ AD 3A 18 03 00 50 AD].
Controller: Phison PS2251-07-V
Memory chip: FD32B08UCH1-49
Flash ID: ad 3a 18 03 00 50 ad 3a

Here are other forum threads related to this USB drive:

UNKNOWN CHIP FD32B08UCH1-49 TSOP-48 ID:ad 3a 18 03

View topic - Softcenter/FE Reader cannot ID FD32B08UCH1-49 Chip

ThrashZone · Aug 17, 2022

Hi,
I use this for linux installs

Universal USB Installer: Best Bootable USB Software (UUI)

Universal USB Installer (UUI) Bootable USB Software: Boot from USB Windows installers, Live Linux ISOs, and system repair tools. USB boot easily

www.pendrivelinux.com

Not sure what to say about a dead flash drive :/
See if it shows up using the utility above.

Assimilator · Aug 17, 2022

No.
Stop.
What is this nonsense?

ISO-burning software cannot physically damage a drive. All that has happened is that the software has nuked the existing partition, then failed to create the new one containing the ISO contents, so essentially you have an empty flash drive. All you need to do is create a new partition in Windows disk manager, then format it with a filesystem.

p-o-db-o-q · Aug 17, 2022

Assimilator said:
All you need to do is create a new partition in Windows disk manager, then format it with a filesystem.

Already did that multiple times. Disk Management fails to format it because it doesn't have an assigned drive letter or path to the volume, of which neither can be assigned because the disk is somehow offline, even though removable storage can't be offline and it clearly shows as Online in Disk Management.
DiskPart can create and recognize the volume but when I want to assign a drive letter to it: DiskPart has encountered an error: The system cannot find the file specified.

ThrashZone · Aug 17, 2022

Hi,
Try free mini tool to format the sludge off it
Don't update it when asked

MiniTool Partition Free mbr2gpt 9.1 Filepuma.com

Solaris17 · Aug 17, 2022

I use belana a lot. I have a sneaking suspicion if the

Code:

clean

command in diskpart can't wipe the drive (as it should be able to) this is a case of "Correlation is not causation". I think a more likely logic path, is that you wrote a shit ton of data to a usb drive (ISOs) and the nand quit as they do. Not "etcher wrecked my drive".

p-o-db-o-q · Aug 18, 2022

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Try free mini tool to format the sludge off it
Don't update it when asked

MiniTool Partition Free mbr2gpt 9.1 Filepuma.com

Yeah I tried that too, it doesn't even format a working drive.

Solaris17 said:
I use belana a lot. I have a sneaking suspicion if the

Code:

clean

command in diskpart can't wipe the drive (as it should be able to) this is a case of "Correlation is not causation". I think a more likely logic path, is that you wrote a shit ton of data to a usb drive (ISOs) and the nand quit as they do. Not "etcher wrecked my drive".

Alright I did "clean" 1 last time and now it shows up in Windows Explorer and it still can't format it, but Disk Management can and now the USB drive works.
I have no idea how or why this didn't work before or why it works now, thanks everyone.

ThrashZone · Aug 18, 2022

Hi,
Did you ever try to format on another machine ?

Shut down and restart can sometimes clear up weird stuff like this.

Solaris17 · Aug 18, 2022

p-o-db-o-q said:
now it shows up in Windows Explorer and it still can't format it, but Disk Management can

Yeah. That’s expected behavior. Explorer doesn’t handle raw drives. That’s exclusive to disk management since always.

Glad it works now.

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USB flash drive corrupted

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