My PNY 128Gb flash drive died while copying files for back up from a Windows 8.1 Dell PC.
I tried re-plugging it into the USB port, other USB ports, other computer USB ports (3 and lower) and nothing.
The drives on all the PCs have been renamed starting at drive L to avoid conflicts (not counting C
In Device Manager I can see it appear as I insert the device again, as a USB Mass Storage Device. But updating the driver, disable, and uninstall has not done anything. The PNY USB flash drive does not appear.
I then tried to reset the driver using:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 at the CMD prompt.
Then I did a devmgmt.msc
Then I uninstalled the faded devices under Universal Serial Bus controllers.
The drive finally does appear my other drives as a Removable Disk (D but I cannot do anything with it. I cannot format it and it says that it has 0 bytes used and 0 bytes free space. I cannot Error Check it.
Is there some way to reset this USB drive?
I tried re-plugging it into the USB port, other USB ports, other computer USB ports (3 and lower) and nothing.
The drives on all the PCs have been renamed starting at drive L to avoid conflicts (not counting C
In Device Manager I can see it appear as I insert the device again, as a USB Mass Storage Device. But updating the driver, disable, and uninstall has not done anything. The PNY USB flash drive does not appear.
I then tried to reset the driver using:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 at the CMD prompt.
Then I did a devmgmt.msc
Then I uninstalled the faded devices under Universal Serial Bus controllers.
The drive finally does appear my other drives as a Removable Disk (D
but I cannot do anything with it. I cannot format it and it says that it has 0 bytes used and 0 bytes free space. I cannot Error Check it.Is there some way to reset this USB drive?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1