How to repair a corrupted flash drive (memory card / USB pendrive)

Today in the modern computer world data are very essential, they are like everything to us.  With the evolution of the computer world, everything is based on the data transfer. The data transfer is only possible through the portable flash drive that includes the memory card, USB pen drive and many more. USB flash drive is mostly used for the data storage, data transfer, data backup from a computer, as long as the desktop or laptop has a USB port and it is compatible with the operating system. Sometimes due to improper ejection and virus may lead to corruption of a given flash drive, so in this case, your operating system cannot access or repair the files or even cannot format your portable medium. The possible way to avoid catastrophe in flash medium is to frequently back up all your important data, without the frequent back up of given flash drive in a verified storage medium may lead to the data loss.

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This method is mainly focused on the command trick that will force you to format your portable flash drive, after the completion of task you can use your flash drive smoothly and error free. So to solve this kind of issues here are some trick to repair your corrupted flash drive, by this methods, you can easily repair your corrupted portable flash drive.

1)    Check the flash device in other computers

Sometimes due to our own computer issues we blame our flash drive as a corrupted or damaged one. So before you blame your flash drive is useless, try connecting your flash drive on another computer. If your flash drive is worked fined in another computer that it’s okay. You need to look for your computer, but if this did not work at all then you rather follow the following step which is mentioned below.

2)    Troubleshooter

Using the troubleshooter is very easy and it thevery quick and easy process to find out the bug of your flash drive. You just need to go to control panel, and simply go to the troubleshooter after that you will see Hardware and Software under that you can find the Configure a Device, so you should click on it after that it troubleshoots and maintains your device.

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3)    USB drive update and reinstalling

If operating system fails to read your USB drive then an obsolete driver is another reason that leads to invisible of the plugged USB drive, so sometimes updating can fix your USB medium .here are some few steps to update a USB drive.

Step 1: first you need to press windows key + r to open run command and in run command, you need to type "devmgmt.msc" which will open device manager dialog box.

Step 2 :  now you need to search for universal serial bus controller and expand it then you can see you corrupted flash named “Unknown Devices”

Step 3 :  right click on Unknown Devices and click on update driver. It will automatically check and then provide you with a suitable update for the device. 

Step 4 : after the update is completed you again need to go to the device manager tab 

Step 5 : click on the disk drive in the list and select your pen drive 

Step 6 :  now uninstall the drive by clicking on uninstall button and the drive will be detached now simply plug out your pen drive and simply restart your computer.

Step 7 : plug in your pen drive, now your pen drive will be detected.

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4)    Changing the drive letter

Sometimes the file and folder can’t be accessed due to the unidentifying the given path of your, therefore, you make sure that the drivers have proper path name .so here are some steps to fix your flash drive by giving a proper file path 

Step 1 :  first you need to plug your flash drive to your computer now you need to right click onmy computer and click on manage.

Step 2 : then click on Disk Management 

Step 3: select your storage device and right click on it and select “change drive letter and path “.

Step 4: now choose a letter from the drop-down menu.

5)    Command prompt

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Step 1: first of all unplug all the devices that are connected to your pc and only plug your portable flash.

Step 2: Press windows +R to open the run dialogue box type “cmd” to open the command prompt. Type DISKPART in command prompt and a popup dialogue box will appear to click ok.

Step 3: now type list disk command, which will so all the all the drives including internal and external and note down disk number.

Step 4 : now type select disk and disk numberat the back e.g. (select disk 1, select disk 2).

Step 5 : type clean and press enter.

Step 6 : next type create partition primarycommand and press enter.

Step 7 : now type active and press enter.

Step 8 : now type select partition 1 command and press enter.

Step 9 :  now type format fs=fat32 command and press enter. This will take some time and format your given flash drive and you can use it.

6)    Using USB software

Sometimes due to virus and malware may lead to corruption of a given flash drive, so in this case, your operating system cannot access or repair the files or even cannot format your portable medium. There are tons of software like EaseUS Partition, clean x etc. available on the internet which one to choose, hard to find out. USB Fix tool is a software that finds out virus and malware very instantly and protects your device from corrupting. Here are the steps how to use the USB fix software

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Step 1: download the USB Fix software from the official website and run the program.

Step 2: once you have installed, it requests you to restart your computer and run the program and click on the clean button.

Step 3: wait while it checks the virus and malware if in case it finds it simply will delete the virus and fix your flash device.

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