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3 powerful ways to fix a damaged & unreadable flash drive!

Flashdisk is certainly needed as a data storage medium that is compact and easy to carry everywhere. But what happens if the flash you are using suddenly breaks? Instead of binging, this is an easy way to repair a damaged and unreadable flash drive.

Flashdisk currently more sophisticated with variations in data storage capacity that increasingly meet your needs, such as installing Windows.

But not infrequently, the flash that you are using has problems, ranging from corrupt, can not be formatted and so on.

To overcome this, this time ApkVenue has summarized 3 ways to fix a damaged and unreadable flash drive quickly and easily. You can practice right away guys!

Collection of Ways to Fix Damaged and Unreadable Flashdisk

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Actually there are several things that can cause your flash drive to be damaged so that it can't be used guys.

Some of them are like forgetting to do Safely Remove Hardware, frequently moving data, being attacked by viruses or exposed to water, dropped or stored in hot places.

Here Jaka will review how to fix a broken flash drive starting from the easiest way to the most complicated that you can still do really guys.

Method 1: Reinstall the USB Driver

The first step you can take in repairing an unreadable flash drive is to check and perform reinstall the USB driver.

To fix this, you can take the following steps.

  • First, first connect the unreadable flash drive to your PC or laptop. Next open the menu Control Panel and go to options Hardware and Sound.
  • Then you can open Device Manager and search Universal Serial Bus Controller. Open menu dropdown and search for devices USB Mass Storage Device marked with a yellow warning.
  • Then you can right click and select options Uninstall. Here you can unplug and re-plug the Flashdisk or restart the PC or laptop you are using.

Method 2: Fix Pendrive Write Protected

In addition to a flash that is not detected, sometimes you also encounter problems such as flash drives with descriptions write protected. In making repairs using this method you only need command prompt.

Well for how to fix flash drive write protected You can follow some steps as follows.

  • Open Command Prompt or by right-clicking on the Windows logo and selecting this application. After the Command Prompt window appears, type the command diskpart and press the Enter key. Then a new window will appear.
  • Next type disk list to view a list of available storage media. Then you can choose with the command select disk 2 (depending on the position of the flash on what number).
  • Then you can type the command attributes disk clear readonly >clean >create partition primary.
  • Finally type the command format fs=fat32 (fat32 you can also change ntfs). After that, just type exit.

Method 3: Use HDD Low Level Format Tool

At the most extreme, you can use software named Hard Disk Drive Low Level Format Tool if the Flashdisk is really difficult to repair.

But this method will not be useful if your flash drive turns out to be physically damaged guys. For more details, you can read more in the article: The Best Way to Repair a Damaged or Corrupt Flashdisk.

Eitsss ... but before doing the steps above, don't forget to download and install the application below, OK!

So that's 3 ways to fix a damaged flash drive without even needing to format it quickly and easily. Very easy to do, right?

Have you ever encountered a similar flash disk problem? Don't forget to make share your experience and how to overcome it in the comments column yes!

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