Windows was unable to complete the format? Help!
Hey guys. I’m trying to reformat my USB drive to make it a bootable disk, but I keep getting errors. (SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Go USB) In File Explorer, it shows “Windows was unable to complete the format”. I tried diskpart with clean, create partition primary, and format, but it just says “Format failed”. Does anyone have suggestions on what might be wrong or how I can forcefully reformat it? TYSM!
USB flash drive showing no media in disk management
I’m having a really frustrating issue with one of my USB flash drives. When I plug it into my computer, it shows up as a removable drive under “This PC.” But when I try to open it, it just says “Please insert a disk into USB drive”. So I went into disk management to check, and there it shows as “Removable” but with No Media. There’s no file system, no partition, nothing. It also shows 0 bytes capacity. Unfortunately, I have some important files on there that I really need. 😨 Does this mean the USB is dead? How to fix the “usb showing no media in disk management” issue?How to recover files from USB drive for free?
I'm hoping someone here can help me out. I recently plugged in my SanDisk 512GB Ultra USB 3.0 Flash Drive on my Windows 11 PC, and to my surprise, dozens of photos that were stored on it have suddenly gone missing. I’m not sure what happened. One day the photos were there, and the next day they were just... gone. I’ve searched the drive thoroughly and tried different computers, but no luck. It’s like the files vanished without a trace. Are there any free tools or methods that can help me recover the lost files from this USB drive? Thank you! (I had previously used this USB as a bootable drive a while ago, but later reformatted it and started using it to store personal files)
Intune USB removable storage block - side effect on remote USB sharing devices
Hi everyone ! We have some constraints compliance-wise to block removable USB storage. Basically, did any of you faced this, and how did you tackle this ? For reference, we enforced the block policy by creating an Intune (no GPO) configuration profile this way for Windows 10 devices: Device configuration profile > Configuration settings > General > Removable storage > Block There are some side-effects on this, as for the hardware USB devices that are onboarding some drivers, those will be blocked. We saw this for some devices regarding remote screen sharing devices. We tried allowing those devices this way with the following policy: Device configuration profile > Administrative Templates > System > Device Installation > Device Installation Restrictions > Allowed device IDs: "<List of hardware IDs>"; Allow installation of devices that match any of these device IDs: "Enabled" But we are still having issues right now. Overall, there seems to be multiple ways to block removable storage USBs on Intune - not always super clear what are the pros/cons for each of them. Is the one currently implemented allow whitelisting specific devices ? And what are your feedbacks on this if you are currently implementing this / already worked on this topic ? Thank you !
USB Drive recognized as a network and will not let me open it
I have a USB drive that I use at home to back up photos and videos. It has worked fine for many years, but now the same computer does not recognize it as a USB drive. It says that it is a network and that I do not have access to it. I went into devices on settings and asked it to be forgotten, but now it does not come back when I plug it in. I've tried it on my work laptop, but the laptop does not even recognize it.
