HP USB disk storage format tool broke my flash drive

skinnypete

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Oct 17, 2016
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I just bought a brand new sandisk 32gb flash drive, which worked fine, until I tried to format it with the HP USB disk format tool because I am trying to create a bootable usb stick (if you own a gigabyte board don't bother trying to do this it will not work, as I have discovered). The tool started, then stopped saying it couldn't format, and now windows can't see the usb stick. I have tried a few other tools which also can't format it. I have tried 'optimizing' it through windows. Should I throw it away and buy yet another usb stick? Thanks
 

skinnypete

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Oct 17, 2016
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Yes in universal serial bus controllers as USB Root Hub (xHCL)
Sorry that was daft, I mean yes as Sandisk blahblah in disk drives too