Restore corrupted usb flash drives.
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you have a drive it's no longer
working it's dead
it's corrupted whatever okay this could
happen if you uh just yanked it out or
you installed some linux distros and
then you wanted to do something else
with it but
it's just not working anymore well you
can restore these back to factory
settings
and i'm going to show you how okay first
we're going to plug in our drive
and it's already plugged in for me and
we're going to open up an elevated
command prompt the way we do this
so we can go to the search here or you
can do you know command
r and then we're going to run it as
administrator
okay and the command we're going to run
is disk
part all one word okay this is going to
be the the disk partition tool
next thing we do is we're going to type
list space disk all right
now we're showing two disks here disk
zero is my hard disk
i can know as no it's my disk because
the first one secondly i can see that
it's two terabytes
be very careful because there could be
three four drives here if you have two
hard drives
two solid state drives or maybe another
flash drive in there you don't wanna
delete
well i know this 32 gig flash drive is
disc one i can check i can see that it's
28 gigs here
okay so now we have to select it select
disk one make sure that you get the
right one
now it's selected i'm going to list disk
just to be careful
i see the asterisk here on the side next
to disk 1 32 gigs
it's not my hard drive so i know i have
the right one
now let's clean all the partitions off
clean
now if i do clean all it's going to
really wipe it you'd want to do that if
you need to do a secure wipe or if
you're trying to load this
onto bsd as a volume or
like a certain nas systems um where the
the first and last
parts of the uh of the partition need to
be completely wiped
but that will take up to an hour
sometimes so we're just going to do
clean to
kill all the partitions okay now we've
cleaned it
but now we have to create a primary
partition create
partition primary
which is where we're going to save all
our files enter
we've created the partition but we can't
save anything yet to it
so we need to actually format it we're
going to format
space fs for file system
equals and for this size of drive we'll
go with exfat you can go with fat32 and
that'll work with everybody
exfat for fast drives ntfs you know if
you wanted to
make like something you're going to use
exclusively with windows we're gonna go
expat
now if i just hit enter here this is
gonna be a low level format which
is gonna wipe all the data but you know
it we're gonna overwrite it anyway
we don't wanna spend an hour formatting
the drive so we're gonna do a quick
format
so space quick
enter done now my heart my
antivirus is scanning it because it's a
new drive and our new usb
drive is right here you won't see this
because i have hidden files
shown and everything but this is an
empty drive it's now working
that's how you restore a usb drive back
to factory settings.
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