Formatted USB now shows as a disk drive

Question

About a year back i bought a USB from Asda that of which the manufacture is unknown. i made it a bootable USB for kali linux and done the install to a separate USB. i decide to format it as i could use it for other things, so i use admin EaseUS to wipe it, while later it fails so i unplug it an plug it back in. Next thing i know i try to open it in files and it says "Please insert disk" ive had a look in disk management it comes up as:

"

Disk 1 Removable (E:)

No media

"

disk management screenshot

By this point i don't know what do do so... can u guys help?

Solution

i have come to the conclusion that the disk is dead as i have gotten nowhere and no app can detect it (except for files) thanks though for the help, i do appreciate it

Comments

[Admin]

Using a hex editor (HxD or similar) in Disk Mode, can you access the device or does it show up with 0 sectors? Since you seem to be familiar with Linux, how does it appear under Linux? use parted or gparted to see if the device can be accessed. If so, create a new partition table and a partition, you don’t have to format it, as windows might be happy with the presence of a partition table and offer to format it by itself... Just a guess.

[Ro-ee]

lack of partition usually doesn’t manifest as shown in the image from the disk management. diskpart is worth a try, but if the sector amount is reported to be zero, this doesn’t work. Hence my question if the situation under Linux is different (what makes Windows think this is a device with a missing medium may not trigger the same code in Linux, and the drive size might still be reported correctly)

[ST3VI3 RICHI3]

@george tian i tried that it gave me a output of "No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created)." on step 7

[ST3VI3 RICHI3]

@Ro-ee ill give linux a try i have a totally separate PC to do it on (rpi) and ill get back to you if it works

[ST3VI3 RICHI3]

@Ro-ee i tried Gparted and it failed to pick it up

[Ro-ee]

what does linux say about the device, esp. output from 'dmesg' after the device has been plugged? Ideally, it should show the device detected, and the number of logical blocks (and their size), as well as the type (perferrably USB mass storage device).

[ST3VI3 RICHI3]

@Ro-ee lnux doesn't output anything i diddn't try dmsg but it wasn't even showing up in files

[ST3VI3 RICHI3]

i tried that, linux does not read it at all, Windows piks it up but EaseUS fails to pick it up, although when i plug it in Ease Us re scans devices so i does see the drive just it does not show it. Also i used "win32 disk imager"

[Rod Smith]

If by "linux does not read it at all" you mean that you see no new /dev/sd{x} device when you plug the disk in, then chances are the disk is dead (or maybe you've got some flaky USB hardware in your computer). If you're relying on GUI tools in Linux, don't. In Linux, text-mode tools are much better for this sort of diagnostic process.