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Repairing a corrupted USB flash drive is easy today .Follow Flash drive repair tutorial to learn how to fix a malfunctioning USB flash drive that not recognized by computer or have format issues .
1 - Repair corrupted USB flash drive without formatting
First step of our USB flash drive repair tutorial is fixing the flash disk without formatting because may be it have important files so you need to save them .there is many reasons that can make USB pen drive data to be inaccessible as example USB flash drive not working , not detecting ,format error message appears every time you connect the flash drive . So now the question is how can we recover the important files from the USB drive when it is damaged or unresponsive? .We will offer 45 way to repair corrupted USB flash drive and you can try it one by one until you get back your Flash disk .
1-1 Changing The USB flash disk Letter from Disk Management
We can use this way before we do anything , may be is unable to assign drive letters (like C, D, E) to the flash drive . Because of that reason we can't access the data inside our pen drive .To fix this issue please follow the instructions below .
How to change USB Flash Drive Letter from Windows ?


To Change the letter of USB flash drive , follow these steps :
- Plug in USB pen drive to your Laptop or Computer .
- Right Click on Computer then Choose Manage .
- Click on Disk Management ,you will see all storage device connected .
- Right Click on your USB flash drive then choose "Change Drive Letters and Paths ..." .
- Click on Change then Choose another Letter to assign to your flash disk .
- Click OK .
- Remove your flash disk then plug in again .
- Try to open it now .If this way not worked please use the next method .
1-2 Repair corrupted USB flash drive by using Windows Error Checking
Sometimes there is errors with the flash drive and needs only to be corrected not formatted .In this method we use the simple Windows error checking "Scan and Repair drive " .
To scan and repair USB pendrive follow the instructions :
- Connect your flash disk to your PC .
- Right Click on flash drive then choose properties .
- Click on Tools .
- Click Check .
- Click Scan and Repair drive .
- Wait until finish , don't remove the flash drive while repairing .
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1-3 Fix corrupted USB flash disk by Reinstalling Flash drivers in Windows
We will use this method if we plug in the flash drive to PC USB port and computer not able to detect it .You can uninstall the flash drivers from Windows then reinstall it .This method may fix the flash drive problem .
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Sometimes there is different reasons that make the USB flash drives not recognized by computer .One of this reasons is USB Port may be isn't works good so in this case try different USB port .Another reason try to plugin USB flash drive to another PC and another operation system .If you try it in Windows 10 so try it in Windows 7 .
To Reinstall the USB flash drivers from Windows Manager ,follow the instructions :
- Insert your corrupted USB flash disk to your PC .
- Right Click on Computer and choose Manage .
- from the left side click on Device Manager .
- Click on Disk Drives .
- Right Click on Your flash drive .
- Click Uninstall drivers .
- Restart your PC .
- Computer will automatically reinstall the flash drives and it will work good .
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1-4 Repair corrupted USB flash disk by Using CMD without Formatting
We can use CMD for recovering damaged USB flash drive without formatting . CMD allows you to repair a corrupted USB flash disk without losing data inside.To repair corrupted USB drive by using CMD (no format option ) please follow the instructions :
- Insert your flash drive to your computer.
- From Start Menu ( i use Windows 10 ) search for Windows System then right click on Command Prompt then click on Run As Administrator .
- CMD Windows will open .
- Type this command chkdsk G: /f G is your flash drive label .
- Press Enter , CMD will correct all flash drive errors without formatting .
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1-5 Repair corrupted Pendrive by different ways
Sometimes there is different reasons that make the USB flash drives not recognized by computer .One of this reasons is USB Port may be isn't works good so in this case try different USB port .Another reason try to plugin USB flash drive to another PC and another operation system .If you try it in Windows 10 so try it in Windows 7 .
2 - Repair corrupted USB flash drive with formatting tools
2-1 How to repair Corrupted USB Flash Drive Using Restore Device Defaults
This method can fix the corrupted USB drive by restoring the default format type .
To restore the defaults of the USB storage device follow the instructions below:
- Right click on your Thumb drive then choose format .
- As you see in the picture remove Quick Format .
- Click on Restore Device defaults ,you will see that the file system format changed to the original file system of the flash disk "sometimes become FAT32 " .
- Click Start to begin the full format of the flash disk .
- This method will clear all errors from the pendrive .
2-2 Repair corrupted USB ThumbDrive by Using CMD (Format option )
This method (DOS Method ) will be used to repair corrupted USB flash drive by making Full format (force format ) to the flash drive by using Diskpart command by CMD .This method can format and repair all corrupted flash drive types .To force format of your flash drive by using CMD ,please follow the instructions :
- Insert your corrupted flash disk to your PC .
- Right click on command Prompt and Run As Administrator .
- CMD Window will open , type diskpart then press Enter .
- Another CMD window will open .Type " list disk " then press Enter .
- You will see all disks that connected in your PC.
- Disk 0 is your computer primary HDD , so look to the other Disk ant it's capacity .
- Type " select disk 1 ( flash drive disk ) then press Enter .
- type "clean " then press Enter .
- Wait until format your flash drive .
- Congratulations now your USB flash drive fixed and formatted well .
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2-3 Fix corrupted USB flash disk by normal Windows format tool
Windows format tool is one of the USB format tool that can repair your corrupted flash disk .It is very simple tool and you can find it with your Windows operation system .
To format corrupted thumbdrive with windows format tool , follow the instructions :

- Plug in your thumb drive to your computer .
- Open My Computer then Right click on your thumbdrive .
- Click format .
- Choose format type NTFS or FAT32 .
- If you want a Quick format check "quick format " or unchecked it and do deep format but it will take more time than quick format .
- Wait until finish formatting your thumb drive .
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2-4 Fix damaged USB flash drive with Portable HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

Portable Hp USB Disk Format Tool support repairing the following storage devices "SDHC, SDXC Memory Stick Duo Pro, CF Card II and Compact Flash ,SanDisk ,Kingston Transcend,Corsair custom USB flash drives ,HP ,Sony ,Lexar Imation ,Toshiba,PNY ,ADATA ,Verbatim ,Kingmax,LaCie , Apacer,Panda ,Seatech ,SDKSK9 ,Silicon Power disks,IronKey custom USB flash drives,HDE pen drives and more .
To Download Portable Hp USB Disk Format Tool
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2-5 Format damaged USB flash disk with Check Flash format tool

To Download Portable Check flash format utility
2-6 Repair damaged USB Pendrive with USB Disk Storage Format Tool V5.3

To Download Portable USB Disk Storage Format Tool
2-7 Repair corrupted and damaged USB flash disk by using USB Flash Drive Tester

To Download USB Flash Drive Tester
2-8 Fix damaged flash drives with HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool

HDD Low Level Format Tool software can repair hard disk sectors and clear partitions ,MBR and all data inside the hard disk for ever .HDD low level format software support the following operation system "MS Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2 "
To download HDD low level format software
2-9 Repair corrupted USB flash drive with Martik USB Disk Formatter

Open Martik USB Disk Formatter software .From the upper menu called usb device , choose your flash drive .Choose your format options from "system" weather FAT or NTFS .Press format to begin flash drive formatting process .Please wait until finishing formatting .
To Download Martik USB Disk Format tool
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2-10 Repair corrupted USB flash disk with Urescue format tool
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To Download Urescue format tool
2-11 Repair Fake and corrupted USB Pendrives with MyDiskFix software
MyDiskFix is a free software that can help users to restore the real size of fake Chinese USB flash disks or SD memory cards.When you buy a fake USB flash disk from the internet from unknown sellers especially Chinese sellers and you found that you bought a 64 GB but the actual capacity of the flash drive is 8GB only !!.To Download MyDiskFix format tool
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2-12 Fix Corrupted USB sticks with Any Drive Formatter Tool

To Download Any Drive Formatter software
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2-13 Fix corrupted and broken USB Stick with Smartdisk Fat32 Format utility

To download Smartdisk Fat32 Format software
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2-14 Repair broken USB flash stick with MiniAide Fat32Formatter software

To Download MiniAide Fat32Formatter software
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2-15 Repair corrupted USB Custom drive with Tokiwa FAT32 Formatter software

Tokiwa FAT32 Formatter is a free Portable FAT32 format tool allow users to format any disk storage larger than 32 GB to FAT32 .Fat32 Formatter v1.1 support Windows 2000, Windows XP,Windows 7 ,Windows Vista ,Windows 8 ,Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 .
To Download Tokiwa FAT32 Formatter software
**************************************************************************************************************3 - Repair corrupted USB flash drive by Upgrading Firmware
- The first step of flash drive repair is determining your USB flash drive information to know which repair software will be suitable for this flash drive .
- To determine Flash drive information you can use many software such as ,Chip genius ,flash extractor , chip easy and many flash drive software but i prefer using Chip genius software .
- Now plug in your corrupted USB flash disk to your computer and Download Chip Genius from this link "Chip Genius Software v4.17" .
- Open Chip Genius software , Once you connect the flash drive ,Chip genius will detect Flash information .Now the important parameters in the Chip genius report for us is three things :
- VID , PID
- Chip Vendor
- Chip Part-Number
- If the Chip genius detect the flash drive information correctly , You will get Chip vendor ,Chip Part- Number so we can repair the USB stick by Update firmware ,this means a software solution .But Sometimes Chip genius report doesn't show chip vendor ,chip part number or write unknown , in this way there is a hardware solution to make the flash drive recognized by computer and chip genius then use the software "we will discuss it after finishing the software part ".
- Search in Google or in our flash drive repair website to find the suitable software .
You can Download Corrupted USB flash drive firmware from our website ,just determine your flash drive chip vendor and choose from the following firmware labels .
Flash drive firmware Download :
- Alcor Firmware .
- Ameco Firmware .
- ChipsBank Firmware .
- Phison Firmware .
- SSS Firmware .
- Skymedi Firmware .
- Efortune Firmware .
- Icreate Firmware .
- Innostor Firmware .
- Netac Firmware .
- OTI Firmware .
- Prolific Firmware .
- Ramos Firmware .
- Silicon Power Firmware .
- SMI Firmware .
- USBest Firmware .
4 - Repair corrupted Famous USB flash drive by it's official tools
4-1 Repair corrupted Kingston USB flash drive by Kingston format tool

Kingston format tool allow to format and repair any Kingston or data traveler USB flash disk .It's a free portable format tool designed by the official company of Kingston USB Flash drives .
To Download Kingston format software
4-2 Repair corrupted Kingmax USB sticks with Kingmax Format tool

To Download Kingmax format utility
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4-3 Repair corrupted ADATA USB flash disk with ADATA Format Tool

To Download ADATA format software
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4-4 Repair corrupted USB Transcend and Jetflash drives with Transcend Recovery Tool

To download Transcend Jetflash format tool
4-5 Fix corrupted Lexar USB flash disk with Lexar format tool

Lexar format tool was designed to format any corrupted Lexar USB pendrive .Lexar format utility support most of Lexar USB drive models .
To download Lexar format software
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4-6 Fix damaged Silicon Power USB flash drives with Silicon Power Formatter Tool
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To Download Silicon Power Format software
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4-7 Repair corrupted Innostar USB flash disk with Silicon Power Recovery Tool
Silicon Power recovery tool is a good recovery tool for brand of innostar USB custom flash drive .Silicon Power Recovery Tool software can repair and format any corrupted innostar USB flash drive .Insert innostar custom flash drive to your computer .Open Silicon Power Recovery Tool software and press start to begin updating your innostar custom flash drive firmware .

To Download Innostar format utility
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4-8 Repair corrupted Sandisk USB pen drive with SanDisk Recover disk generator tool
Sandisk Recover disk generator tool allows you to fix most of corrupted Sandisk flash drives.It support the following flash drive controller chip vendors :OTI 2168 ,OTI 6228, 0151 - Silicon Integrated Systems Corp , 5151 - SanDisk .
To Download Sandisk Format tool
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4-9 Repair damaged Sandisk Flash Drives with Sandisk compatible U3 smart drive recovery tool
Sandisk compatible U3 smart drive recovery tool can repair and format your Sandisk flash drive .Insert Sandisk compatible U3 smart drive to your computer .Open Sandisk compatible U3 smart drive recovery tool and start to update your Sandisk USB flash drive .
To Download Sandisk Recovery Software
4-10 Repair Corrupted PNY USB flash sticks with PNY Format Tool
PNY USB Drive recovery Software can recover and repair corrupted PNY 16GB or 32 GB flash drives .If you have corrupted PNY Flash drive 32GB or 16 GB,Fix it now with PNY Format tool .

To Download PNY Format tools
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4-11 Fix damaged Apacer USB Thumb drives with Apacer Format tool
Apacer format tool help you to repair and format apacer flash drive if you have formatting problems or write protected or this message "Please insert the disk" when you double-click the USB Flash Drives .I bring to you all apacer flash drive repair tools .Follow the next tips to fix corrupted apacer flash drive .
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4-12 Repair Hynix and micron flash drive with Hynix format tool

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4-13 Fix damaged Infinity USB flash stick with super stick recovery software
Do you have a corrupted Infinity USB flash disk and you want to repair it .Do you get this error please insert a disk into removable disk .Here is the solution with super stick recovery tool .
To Download Infinity format tool
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4-14 Repair Corsair Flash drive with SMI Test SM32x software
SMI Test SM32x software can fix your Corsair Voyager GT pen drive .Insert Corsair drive 32 GB to your computer .Download SMI Test SM32x software and open the software .If this is your flash drive firmware , your Corsair flash drive will appear in software interface .Now start updating Corsair Voyager flash drive firmware .Congratulation now your flash drive is fixed .
To Download Corsair flash drive format software
4-15 Fix Toshiba Smart Buy Glossy flash drive with Toshiba format tool
Formatter Silicon Power v.3.7 is an effective tool to repair Toshiba Smart Buy Glossy 4GB that have PS2251 chip vendor .Download Formatter silicon power software to your PC .Insert your Toshiba Smart Buy Glossy 4 GB , Vid=13FE ,Pid =4100 with Toshiba processor to computer and open Formatter silicon power software.
To Download Toshiba Smart Buy Glossy format tool
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4-16 Repair Udisk JV60 4GB flash drive with UDisk format tool
Ameco MW8219 firmware software is an effective utility to format or repair any Udisk JV60 flash drive .Just download Ameco MW8219 firmware software to your PC.Plug in your corrupted USB flash drive to your computer.Open Ameco MW8219 firmware software and click start to begin updating your flash firmware.
To Download Udisk recovery software
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4-17 Repair Sony USB Flash Drive with Sony Recovery Tool
Sony has developed a new Format utility for it's USB thumb drives .Sony USB Flash Drive recovery tool allows you to format any type of Sony USB custom flash drives .Sony Format tool can repair flash problems like write protection problem , can't format by windows ,raw volume and many formatting problems .If you have a Corrupted Sony USB custom flash drive and you want to fix it , just follow the repair tips below .
To Download Sony Flash drive format software
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4-18 Repair corrupted Patriot USB thumb drives with Patriot format tool
Patriot USB Low Level Format tool allows you to repair and format corrupted Patriot USB flash drive and Patriot Card Memory .Patriot Low level formatter will erase all data from your USB stick . Patriot format tool can used only with Patriot Flash drive and it checks the USB ports before formatting automatically .If you have a formatting problems like (windows can't format the disk ,Write protected patriot memory stick,Raw volume ,Zero capacity ,the patriot capacity is 8MB or 15 Mb which is smaller than the actual volume ) , please you can try using Patriot Low level formatter software .
To Download Patriot USB format software
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4-19 Fix MoserBaer USB Custom Drives with MoserBaer Format tool
Today we will explain how to repair MoserBaer USB flash disk .If you have a corrupted Moser Baer flash drive don't through it , you can fix it now and make it like a new one .MoserBaer Upgrade Tool is designed to update MoserBaer 8GB flash drive firmware . MoserBaer format tool will format your flash drive .
To Download MoserBaer Format software
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4-20 Repair Strontium USB Stick BOLD with URescue v1.2.12.4

To Download Strontium USB Flash drive format software
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4-21 Repair corrupted Philips Vintage USB flash drive with Philips UFD Upgrade Tool

To Download Philips USB recovery tools
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4-22 Repair corrupted and unreadable directory and files in USB flash drives

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4-23 Repair corrupted Thumb drives with BUFFALO Low Level Format tool
BUFFALO Low Level Formatter utility is a great recovery tool that can repair all Phison PS22xx chip vendor .BUFFALO Low Level Formatter utility allows you to update Phison PS22xx chip vendor firmware.First you must be sure that your Corrupted USB flash drive chip vendor is Phison PS22xx .To Download BUFFALO Low Level format software
Thank you my friends now we get the end of how to repair corrupted USB flash drive .Please share this article with your friends so they can fix their corrupted flash disks .We will update this article if we have new format software .
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ReplyDeleteDescription: [E:]USB Mass Storage Device(Generic Mass Storage)
Device Type: Mass Storage Device
Protocal Version: USB 3.00
Current Speed: Super Speed
Max Current: 304mA
USB Device ID: VID = 090C PID = 1000
Serial Number: NE5RDM4Q
Device Vendor: Generic
Device Name: Nexcopy Device
Device Revision: 1100
Manufacturer: Generic
Product Model: Mass Storage
Product Revision: 1100
Controller Vendor: SMI
Controller Part-Number: SM3267AB - ISP 151015-1AB
Flash ID code: 8984643CA90C - Intel PF29F64B08NCMFS - 4CE/Single Channel [MLC-16K] -> Total Capacity = 64GB
Description: [H:]USB Mass Storage Device(USB Flash Drive)
ReplyDeleteDevice Type: Mass Storage Device
Protocal Version: USB 2.00
Current Speed: High Speed
Max Current: 100mA
USB Device ID: VID = 24A9 PID = 1302
Device Vendor: USB
Device Name: Flash Drive
Device Revision: 0200
Manufacturer: USB
Product Model: Flash Drive
Product Revision: 2.00
Controller Vendor: ASolid
Controller Part-Number: AS3257H
Hint: : Please exit this program and RE-PLUG your USB Flash Drive before you can operate it!
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