Can't find the file specified

Question

So I inturrupted a dd for windows operation, and now my usb stick won't work. I saw this post but, it's solution doesn't work for me, as i don't have a chromebook. Attempts to format the drive just say "The system cannot find the file specified." as seen here:

Solution

If Windows disk management MMC snapin fails, you can use the command line tool diskpart

• Open cmd.exe as admin and run diskpart

• run list disk to list all available disks and use select disk NUMBER to select the USB flash drive

and now run clean to clean the drive.

Now run Disk Management, create a new Volume on the flash drive.

Comments

[magicandre1981]

use diskpart to clean the uSB drive: howtogeek.com/235824/… ATTENTION make sure that you selected the correct drive and not different ones otherwise you have data loos.

[Not_Lazy]

@magicandre1981 Make that an answer and i'll mark it as the answer. you got 5 minutes before i do it myself lol

[Not_Lazy]

I said 10 minutes but then i fell asleep. Thanks for your answer, you saved my ass.

[Kamil Maciorowski]

"See there" is a comment, not a good answer.

[Alasdair K]

OK, but the best answer there is really long (and not mine) and it didn't seem a good idea to copy it all over. I have been looking at several SuperUser posts on this problem, and that post seems to have the best answers. Surely it is helpful to point people to where the answer is. I did an answer here not a comment because comments don't always get read (or even displayed by default).