sanjoa Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Hi, guys! How are ya? I need help with a flash drive, the MBR (Master Boot Record) has gone corrupt because of a virus/malware. Is there anyway to fix it? Thanks in advance. (I tried TestDisk did not work) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger D Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Hi, guys! How are ya? I need help with a flash drive, the MBR (Master Boot Record) has gone corrupt because of a virus/malware. Is there anyway to fix it? Thanks in advance. (I tried TestDisk did not work)Try HDD Regenerator 2011 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanoman Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 (edited) see here I don't Know If it can Help http://mbrwizard.com or any partition software have built in feature like minitoolsif No Data on flash Drive needed also you can do with low level format & Get a Clean piece Edited October 27, 2013 by nanoman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponting Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Try this one...http://www.rmprepusb.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanax Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 BOOTICE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopenstein Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Maybe try the directions on this page using Windows diskpart command:https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/usb_reset/windows/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEEL Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 1. LowLevel Fomatting & Re-Install2.http://www.surfright.nl/en/kickstart3.http://support.kaspersky.com/2727Up-to U. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 27, 2013 Author Share Posted October 27, 2013 Thanks you all. HDD Regenerator did not work, so I'll try the other tools and tell ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 27, 2013 Author Share Posted October 27, 2013 see here I don't Know If it can Help http://mbrwizard.com or any partition software have built in feature like minitoolsif No Data on flash Drive needed also you can do with low level format & Get a Clean piece This is a paid soft, no free anymore :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanoman Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 see here I don't Know If it can Help http://mbrwizard.com or any partition software have built in feature like minitoolsif No Data on flash Drive needed also you can do with low level format & Get a Clean piece This is a paid soft, no free anymore :(use cli version freeware use with caution hereany way try also partition wizard here other available options here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0H1T Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Try this ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopenstein Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 (edited) Here's another tool you could try:MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Edition 8.1 with Bootable CD : 62.8 MBhttp://rapidgator.net/file/8838b3084e61169de1cdb9e4c59a097b/ Edited October 27, 2013 by Whoopenstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 27, 2013 Author Share Posted October 27, 2013 It seems the pendrive has dead. Windows does not recognize it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopenstein Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 It seems the pendrive has dead. Windows does not recognize itDid you try it in all of the USB ports? I have some flash drives that refuse to be recognised in some ports for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 27, 2013 Author Share Posted October 27, 2013 The drive is being read with RAW file system. I managed to switch to FAT32 but I coudn't copy files to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopenstein Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 (edited) try these if you havn't already:http://www.neowin.net/news/usb-disk-storage-format-tool-50http://download.cnet.com/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool/3000-2094_4-10974082.htmlorhttp://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml Edited October 27, 2013 by Whoopenstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 27, 2013 Author Share Posted October 27, 2013 HP USB tool did not work for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopenstein Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 One last thing :http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_to_unlock_the_usb_flash_drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 27, 2013 Author Share Posted October 27, 2013 Yes. That's been done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoCoder Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 It seems the pendrive has dead. Windows does not recognize itThe drive is being read with RAW file system. I managed to switch to FAT32 but I coudn't copy files to ita month ago had the same problem tried many things but nothing helped in this case all that crap software cannot help anymore just buy new one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopenstein Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 It sounds like the virus put a secuity password on the USB stickhttp://www.ehow.com/how_6142470_remove-flash-drive-security.htmlhttp://www.truecrypt.org/downloads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 Truecrypt does not detect the drive (I coudn't reformat it to FAT32 yet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopenstein Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Truecrypt does not detect the drive (I coudn't reformat it to FAT32 yet)Ok - how about a low level formatinfo: http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/how-to-fix-an-unreadeable-usb-flash-drive-illustrated.63357/Program: http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 Truecrypt does not detect the drive (I coudn't reformat it to FAT32 yet)Ok - how about a low level formatinfo: http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/how-to-fix-an-unreadeable-usb-flash-drive-illustrated.63357/Program: http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/that tool didn't work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 27/10/2013 22:23:38 Device capacity: 7,818,240 sectors27/10/2013 22:23:38 Locking device...27/10/2013 22:23:39 Formatting...27/10/2013 22:25:50 Format Error occurred at offset 0: 2 - Media was unplugged27/10/2013 22:25:50 Device was unplugged, aborting...27/10/2013 22:25:50 Average speed:27/10/2013 22:25:50 Operation terminated at offset 0 LBA 027/10/2013 22:25:50 27/10/2013 22:25:50 Remember to create new partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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