I have a 16gb USB STICK , i can not format it as theres an error tthat says windows can not format etc,
i have tried going into disk management and doing it through there but still it doesnt work? i dont know the make of my USB stick but is there anyway i can bring it back to life, My windows read the usb stick and shows the the driver on my computer, but wen copying files and taking the usb stick out and putting it back in, it shows that there are no files on the USB stick, the usb stick is NTFS at the moment.
Chances are the stick is just bad. It does happen.
You could try to remove any old partitions on the flash drive and create a new one. But, there isn't much that can go wrong here, so if its not working at that level its probably just bad.
Someone else might post a response on how to do some low-level wipe of the drive, which might work. I'm not aware of what software to use for that. Perhaps google would provide something free. Careful you don't wipe the wrong drive.
