Flash drive dead after format interrupted

chrisg4

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Feb 11, 2017
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I was perfoming format using 7 pass secure erase on a 16 gb adata flash drive with my macbook. After 15 minutes power went down and the proccess was interrupted, from that time on the flash drive is dead. It wont appear anywhere. Not on finder, not on disk utility, not on disk management on a windows laptop. Is there any way to fix it?

Thxn
 
Hey there, chrisg4.

It sounds like the flash drive might have failed. You could try reformatting it via its manufacturer's formatting tool if it's detected by it, to see if that fixes things up.
If that doesn't work, try to RMA it if it's still under warranty.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 

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