USB stick problem

[Iceboy]

I put Linux on a usb stick last year to use on an old computer, but I've decided against it. The problem is now, windows won't recognise the stick or format it. It did attempt once but that's it, but now it doesn't show up.

 

[Bastet]

Does it show under diskpart?
start>Powershell with admin & enter:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x (where x is the number of the usb)
clean
exit
exit
now go to disk management & it should ask you
if you wish to initialise it, choose yes then you can format the drive.

 

[Iceboy]

It's cleaned it, but does nothing under disk management

 

[Bastet]

So it doesn’t ask you to initialise it?
Does it show under disk management? If yes then right click on it to view the options, if it says initialise &/or format then do this.

 

[Iceboy]

No, it does nothing. It's blank when I right click.

 

[Bastet]

Does it appear under Computer with the other drives? If yes then try formatting the drive there.
If not then you could try the same cmds but enter clean all instead of clean, this will take some time to complete.
If still no luck then the drive may have failed.

 

[Iceboy]

 

[Bastet]

The clean all cmd should sort that out.
It seems there’s several partitions which may not have been removed with the clean cmd.
Can you right click on the raw & format that partition?
You would need to delete the free space partition too & extend the raw partition (once formatted) & add a drive letter.

 

[Iceboy]

Think it's had it mate..thanks for your help though.

 

[Bastet]

You’re welcome.