How to repair a USB Flash Drive

Flash drives are used for storage and moving data from one PC to another. Sometime when we connect flash drive into PC, it doesn’t appear or prompt errors. It can be happen due to various issues but usually it is because of two reasons i.e. Physical Errors (Damaged USB drive port or read/write head, Circuit broken e.g)  and Logical Errors (Malware, Virus, Bad Sectors e.g). Due to these reasons, Operating System is unable to fetch data from flash drive. These various issues may turn USB drive data inaccessible. In this article, I will show you how to repair a USB flash drive which has logical errors.

 

STEP1

 

Insert Flash Drive into PC

Insert flash drive into  PC’s USB port (while Windows is running):

STEP2

 

Flash Drive Visibility in Windows

Open windows explorer, you will see the flash drive as shown in this picture “FLASH DRIVE” of “14.4 GB”. Otherwise, if it is not shown here then it means there are physical errors. Desktop will show a yellow balloon with an error if there are Physical Errors.

Repair Flash Drive with Windows 2

 

STEP3

 

Go to Properties of Flash Drive

Right-click on flash drive and click on properties:

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STEP4

 

Go to Tools

Properties popup will appear on screen which contains its information (Name,, Volume, Free Space,  ). Click on Tools tab:

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STEP5

 

Check now

Click on Tools. We will see three different section. Error-Check, Defragmentation and Backup. Click on Check now:

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STEP6

 

Start Check Disk

Click on Start:

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STEP7

 

Check Disk Process in Progress 

System will run its internal checks including many processes:

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STEP8

Complete and Close

System will show confirmation prompt after the process is complete. It will show results of Error Checking & Corrections as well. We can refer to detailed log as well. Click on Close to complete and finish the process.

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Our USB Flash Drive is free of Logical Errors now. You can restart your PC & then plug this USB in. It will work fine as before.

 

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Waqas Karim is a seasoned Network Expert … Geek. He is the founder of ATech. ATech was started for learning & sharing. Over time the platform has grown to include other resources which continue to attract fellow networkers. Today it sees upward trend of a hundred thousand visitors per month, scattered all over the globe. His specialty is networking, but his interest & expertise spans from traditional IT to Network Security including Programming, Virtualization, Service Provider & so on... no matter the badge on the box. He is CCIE Certified (CCIE#56732) in addition to below badges: Telecom Engineer (BE) + CCIE-RS (CCIE#56732) + Huawei Certified (HW#706632) + MBA Microsoft Certified MCITP, MCSE#109*26, CCNP-Sec, CCNP-SP, CCNA-DC, CompTIA Security+, Nokia NRS-I, JNCIA, ITIL Certified (ITIL#*6373), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker).

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Good!!

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Sonia Saman

Which errors can we remove with this method?