[Help] My USB Drive Kingston is broken after using Rufus

[joyfaster]

Hi all,

I can't open my usb drive kingston again after using Rufus.

I have tried many software to fix it, such as, GParted, Partition magic, and more. But none succed.

Please help.

I have used Rufus to create Windows 8 Windows XP bootable usb. When the program running and then i stopped/canceled it. After that, I can't open my usb drive kingston again.

Hi, all. If you want to find same problem like me, during of using Rufus just stop the process. :)

Updated

1. My USB drive still recognized by Windows and Linux.
2. I've tried format in Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Linux Kubuntu, Puppy Linux, and Ubuntu but none succed
3. I've tried HDD Regenerator (thanks to Roger D), but sorry my problem not fixed yet.
4. I've tried HDDGURU (thanks to anakin 206), idem.
5. Format using cmd, idem.
6. Format using Kingston Format Utility, idem.
7. Format using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, idem.
8. chkdsk, idem.
9. Diskpart, idem.
10. Disk Management, idem.
11. USB Drive type: Kingston DataTraveler G3 8GB
12. I don't want to recover data from it, just make it works again.

Edited February 15, 2014 by joyfaster

[anakin206]

What about Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool?

http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

I coudl be able to recover lots of pen drives with that tool.

Do you want to recover data from it or just make it works again?

Edited February 6, 2014 by anakin206

[Roger D]

Try what i suggested.. It'll do the job.. :)

Edited February 6, 2014 by Roger D

[Kalju]

What did you do? Was it formatted only or did something else?

[mike.mt]

Hi all,

I can't open my usb drive kingston again after using Rufus.

I have tried many software to fix it, such as, GParted, Partition magic, and more. But none succed.

Please help.

Would assist us if you could expand on the error you are getting.....Is it still recognized by your OS???

[Kalju]

Hi all,

I can't open my usb drive kingston again after using Rufus.

I have tried many software to fix it, such as, GParted, Partition magic, and more. But none succed.

Please help.

Would assist us if you could expand on the error you are getting.....Is it still recognized by your OS???

Don't know why it's so - people ask for help, but do not want in any way to tell what's wrong with them.

So, when the stomach hurts, at first cut the head off, and if that does not work, then ... begin to dig grave. Also help - nothing does not hurt anymore.

• People, if You ask for some help, please tell us at first, what the symtoms are, what You did before if these errors came..
• What's Your OS, what other sofware is installed - for example which antivirus sofware, firewall, etc.
• None of the disease cannot be cured, if does not know anything about the disease.

[Holmes]

I dont mean to hijack your thread if I do Im sorry. How ironic I have a sixteen gig thumb drive by kingston and guess what I plug it in and the device connect sound in windows 7 doesnt sound. I dont get a system tray icon saying its plugged in and the device manager doesnt show anything. Is there a solution to this I dont want to lose this drive its the one I used alot (take to friends and family to fix there computers).

My system specs:

Processor Intel® Core i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz

Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Primary hard disk 170GB Free (931GB Total)

Windows 7 Professional

System Manufacturer MSI

Model MS-7821

Total amount of system memory 16.0 GB RAM

System type 64-bit operating system

Number of processor cores 4

Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

I dont know what I did with it and when the last time I used it is. Ill see what I can do I dont know what else there is to try..

Edited February 7, 2014 by Holmes

[davmil]

I had same problem with a HP 16gb thumbdrive on a i5 based HP laptop. Windows & hardware see it & give it a drive assignment, but says 'no files' and it can't be written to. If I leave the thumbdrive in the machine & reboot, the files can then be read and the drive used normally. Interestingly, it works fine in another i7 & an old HP Pentium desktop I have. Maybe it's something about an USB2 drive in a USB3 slot?

[mike.mt]

I had same problem with a HP 16gb thumbdrive on a i5 based HP laptop. Windows & hardware see it & give it a drive assignment, but says 'no files' and it can't be written to. If I leave the thumbdrive in the machine & reboot, the files can then be read and the drive used normally. Interestingly, it works fine in another i7 & an old HP Pentium desktop I have. Maybe it's something about an USB2 drive in a USB3 slot?

Sounds from my side of the fence as you are more likely looking at corrupted USB driver/s...As all is OK on other machines...

First off try the following:-

Go to Device Manager & open Universal Serial Bus Controllers.

Right mouse click each item & select uninstall....When complete re-boot....Windows then should re-install correctly.. :)

Should you still have no joy... :angry:

Search, download & install driver updates for your system from the manufacturer or use Driver Pack Solutions from this thread:-

https://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/205203-driverpack-solution-14-r405-final-driverpacks-14020-full-edition/&sa=U&ei=obH0Us_GB6K24ASD5IH4BQ&ved=0CAcQFjAB&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFQIKEg3n-pKHrLAlAakKjdqxWwyQ

Hope this assists....... :)

[Ramjade]

Your power was disrupted during the process of using rufus right? No worries. Happen to me last time.

This is for widnows 7

1. Open control panel.

2. Type disk into the search box at the upper right corner

3. Select create and format hard disk partition

4. You should see a window with all the computer hard disk + partition + any USB drive + unallocated space.
5. Select the unallocated space which is your USB drive.

6. Right click, Format

7. Ok

8. Wait for it to be done.

It should be fixed now

[lurch234]

Your drive is now raw. Congratulations. This is the result when you interrupt power on a hard drive or in your case cancelling a program that has the ability to format drives.

The only thing you haven't yet tried is chkdsk. After an unfortunate mishap my whole 1 TB drive was raw. chkdsk solved the problem for me.

But formatting your drive should have worked... If its not a driver issue like @mike.mt mentions then maybe your better off buying another one...

Good luck...

[joyfaster]

I had same problem with a HP 16gb thumbdrive on a i5 based HP laptop. Windows & hardware see it & give it a drive assignment, but says 'no files' and it can't be written to. If I leave the thumbdrive in the machine & reboot, the files can then be read and the drive used normally. Interestingly, it works fine in another i7 & an old HP Pentium desktop I have. Maybe it's something about an USB2 drive in a USB3 slot?

Sounds from my side of the fence as you are more likely looking at corrupted USB driver/s...As all is OK on other machines...

First off try the following:-

Go to Device Manager & open Universal Serial Bus Controllers.

Right mouse click each item & select uninstall....When complete re-boot....Windows then should re-install correctly.. :)

Should you still have no joy... :angry:

Search, download & install driver updates for your system from the manufacturer or use Driver Pack Solutions from this thread:-

https://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/205203-driverpack-solution-14-r405-final-driverpacks-14020-full-edition/&sa=U&ei=obH0Us_GB6K24ASD5IH4BQ&ved=0CAcQFjAB&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFQIKEg3n-pKHrLAlAakKjdqxWwyQ

Hope this assists....... :)

Your power was disrupted during the process of using rufus right? No worries. Happen to me last time.

This is for widnows 7

1. Open control panel.

2. Type disk into the search box at the upper right corner

3. Select create and format hard disk partition

4. You should see a window with all the computer hard disk + partition + any USB drive + unallocated space.

5. Select the unallocated space which is your USB drive.

6. Right click, Format

7. Ok

8. Wait for it to be done.

It should be fixed now

Your drive is now raw. Congratulations. This is the result when you interrupt power on a hard drive or in your case cancelling a program that has the ability to format drives.

The only thing you haven't yet tried is chkdsk. After an unfortunate mishap my whole 1 TB drive was raw. chkdsk solved the problem for me.

But formatting your drive should have worked... If its not a driver issue like @mike.mt mentions then maybe your better off buying another one...

Good luck...

Sorry my friend, not worked :(

[mazigh]

Hi all,

I can't open my usb drive kingston again after using Rufus.

I have tried many software to fix it, such as, GParted, Partition magic, and more. But none succed.

Please help.

I have used Rufus to create Windows 8 Windows XP bootable usb. When the program running and then i stopped/canceled it. After that, I can't open my usb drive kingston again.

Updated

1. My USB drive still recognized by Windows and Linux.
2. I've tried format in Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Linux Kubuntu, Puppy Linux, and Ubuntu but none succed
3. I've tried HDD Regenerator (thanks to Roger D), but sorry my problem not fixed yet.
4. I've tried HDDGURU (thanks to anakin 206), idem.
5. Format using cmd, idem.
6. Format using Kingston Format Utility, idem.
7. Format using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, idem.
8. USB Drive type: Kingston DataTraveler G3 8GB
9. I don't want to recover data from it, just make it works again.

You should try "Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command" , it worked for me many times :)

[mazigh]

I dont mean to hijack your thread if I do Im sorry. How ironic I have a sixteen gig thumb drive by kingston and guess what I plug it in and the device connect sound in windows 7 doesnt sound. I dont get a system tray icon saying its plugged in and the device manager doesnt show anything. Is there a solution to this I dont want to lose this drive its the one I used alot (take to friends and family to fix there computers).

My system specs:

Processor Intel® Core i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz

Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Primary hard disk 170GB Free (931GB Total)

Windows 7 Professional

System Manufacturer MSI

Model MS-7821

Total amount of system memory 16.0 GB RAM

System type 64-bit operating system

Number of processor cores 4

Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

I dont know what I did with it and when the last time I used it is. Ill see what I can do I dont know what else there is to try..

Can you open the thumb drive when going to "Computer"?, Is it shown with partitions?

Edited February 7, 2014 by mazigh

[joyfaster]

Hi all,

I can't open my usb drive kingston again after using Rufus.

I have tried many software to fix it, such as, GParted, Partition magic, and more. But none succed.

Please help.

I have used Rufus to create Windows 8 Windows XP bootable usb. When the program running and then i stopped/canceled it. After that, I can't open my usb drive kingston again.

Updated

1. My USB drive still recognized by Windows and Linux.
2. I've tried format in Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Linux Kubuntu, Puppy Linux, and Ubuntu but none succed
3. I've tried HDD Regenerator (thanks to Roger D), but sorry my problem not fixed yet.
4. I've tried HDDGURU (thanks to anakin 206), idem.
5. Format using cmd, idem.
6. Format using Kingston Format Utility, idem.
7. Format using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, idem.
8. USB Drive type: Kingston DataTraveler G3 8GB
9. I don't want to recover data from it, just make it works again.

You should try "Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command" , it worked for me many times :)

Thank you, but i've tried this many times, not worked.

[Holmes]

I dont mean to hijack your thread if I do Im sorry. How ironic I have a sixteen gig thumb drive by kingston and guess what I plug it in and the device connect sound in windows 7 doesnt sound. I dont get a system tray icon saying its plugged in and the device manager doesnt show anything. Is there a solution to this I dont want to lose this drive its the one I used alot (take to friends and family to fix there computers).

My system specs:

Processor Intel® Core i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz

Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Primary hard disk 170GB Free (931GB Total)

Windows 7 Professional

System Manufacturer MSI

Model MS-7821

Total amount of system memory 16.0 GB RAM

System type 64-bit operating system

Number of processor cores 4

Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

I dont know what I did with it and when the last time I used it is. Ill see what I can do I dont know what else there is to try..

Can you open the thumb drive when going to "Computer"?, Is it shown with partitions?

It doesnt show up I cant see it as a drive x drive I cant see it at all. I think that last time I used it is in my old windows xp machine I dont know what might have possibly happened. Like I said before the device connect sound sounds with other usb drives but not the kingston meaning that its not detected at the hardware abstraction OSI layer I go into the bios it doesnt show up. I checked four old usb thumb drives and two new ones and they all showed up a couple got detected by windows needed to be installed and installed fine others got detected by windows 7 device connect sound and showed up in system tray. This kingston doesnt make the device connect sound sound and that means it might be something with the hardware contacts correct me if Im wrong. I tried opening the usb thumb drive up (taking the casing off and I didnt succeed). Trying to get the casing off scratched the side of the drive. I dont have anything small to clean the hardware with. Do any of you recommend anything..

Edited February 8, 2014 by Holmes

[Underclocked]

Perhaps the drive is locked. Do some googling about unlocking usb flash drives - maybe one of the suggested fixes will help.

Edited February 8, 2014 by Underclocked

[geeteam]

I can't believe this, it never occurred to me, Rufus has been always doing the job

[Underclocked]

Does the drive show up in Disk Management? If so, does a right click give you any options?

[joyfaster]

I can't believe this, it never occurred to me, Rufus has been always doing the job

But, it's happen to me :)

Does the drive show up in Disk Management? If so, does a right click give you any options?

Yup, you can see my screenshoot. I have done with all Disk Management, but not fix it yet :(

[geeteam]

From your statement, you stated that you cancelled the process "how could you do such a thing?" well then I guess you have to use Rufus back, do a format and then try making a bootable iso from the drive again, this time around don't cancel anything wait till it completes successfully then you can do a format using another 3rd party disk management software (Mini partition wizard).

[urie]

I can't believe this, it never occurred to me, Rufus has been always doing the job

There is no problem with Rufus user cancled in the middle of formatting the drive he has corrupted it.

Edited February 9, 2014 by urie

[geeteam]

I can't believe this, it never occurred to me, Rufus has been always doing the job

There is no problem with Rufus user cancled in the middle of formatting the drive he has corrupted it.

I know there's no problem with that, But I will want to be on the safer side if i were him, just to wait for it to be completed, where we know perfectly well how making a bootable iSO works on the drive. Then later i can format it back, (Its just like trying to eject a cd in the process of burning).

[dMog]

Your drive is now raw. Congratulations. This is the result when you interrupt power on a hard drive or in your case cancelling a program that has the ability to format drives.

The only thing you haven't yet tried is chkdsk. After an unfortunate mishap my whole 1 TB drive was raw. chkdsk solved the problem for me.

But formatting your drive should have worked... If its not a driver issue like @mike.mt mentions then maybe your better off buying another one...

Good luck...

was going to say whats with the raw format...it should be fat or ntsf... but this fine member already told you

[joyfaster]

From your statement, you stated that you cancelled the process "how could you do such a thing?" well then I guess you have to use Rufus back, do a format and then try making a bootable iso from the drive again, this time around don't cancel anything wait till it completes successfully then you can do a format using another 3rd party disk management software (Mini partition wizard).

It says (Rufus v1.4.3.385), Error: Error while partitioning drive.

I can't believe this, it never occurred to me, Rufus has been always doing the job

There is no problem with Rufus user cancled in the middle of formatting the drive he has corrupted it.

No, i'm sure the problem is Rufus. I have try this twice for two different USB drive. I got the same problem. Fortunately, one USB drive succed to fix it, but this other one not succed :)

I can't believe this, it never occurred to me, Rufus has been always doing the job

There is no problem with Rufus user cancled in the middle of formatting the drive he has corrupted it.

I know there's no problem with that, But I will want to be on the safer side if i were him, just to wait for it to be completed, where we know perfectly well how making a bootable iSO works on the drive. Then later i can format it back, (Its just like trying to eject a cd in the process of burning).

Your drive is now raw. Congratulations. This is the result when you interrupt power on a hard drive or in your case cancelling a program that has the ability to format drives.

The only thing you haven't yet tried is chkdsk. After an unfortunate mishap my whole 1 TB drive was raw. chkdsk solved the problem for me.

But formatting your drive should have worked... If its not a driver issue like @mike.mt mentions then maybe your better off buying another one...

Good luck...

was going to say whats with the raw format...it should be fat or ntsf... but this fine member already told you

Just RAW, not NTFS or FAT (see my screenshoot at page 1)

Edited February 10, 2014 by joyfaster