3 Effective Ways to Fix a Damaged & Unreadable Flashdisk!

Flashdrive is now more sophisticated with a variety of data storage capacities that increasingly meet your needs, such as installing Windows.

But not infrequently, the flashdisk that you use has problems, starting from corrupt, cannot be formatted and so on.

To overcome this, this time Jaka has summarized 3 ways to repair a damaged flash drive and is not read quickly and easily.

Method 1: Reinstall the USB Driver

The first step you can do to repair an unreadable flashdisk is to check and reinstall the USB driver.

To overcome this you can do several steps like the following.

First connect the flashdisk that is not readable with a PC or laptop. Then open the Control Panel menu and go to Hardware and Sound options.
Then you can open Device Manager and look for Universal Serial Bus Controller. Open the dropdown menu and look for the USB Mass Storage Device device that is given a yellow warning sign.
Then you can right-click and select the Uninstall option. Here you can revoke and plug in the Flashdisk or restart the PC or laptop you are using.

Method 2: Fix Flashdisk Write Protected

Besides the flashdisk that is not detected, sometimes you also find problems such as a flashdisk with write protected information. In making repairs using this method you only need a command prompt.

Now for how to fix write protected flashdisk you can follow a number of steps as follows.

Open Command Prompt or right-click on the Windows logo and select this application. After the Command Prompt window appears, type the diskpart command and press the Enter key. Then a new window will appear.
Then type the disk list to see a list of available storage media. Then you can choose the select disk 2 command (depending on the position of the flashdisk in what number).
Then you can type the attributes disk clear readonly> clean> create partition primary command.
Finally type the format command fs = fat32 (fat32 you can also change ntfs). After that, just type exit.

Method 3: Use HDD Low Level Format Tool

The most extreme, you can use software called the Hard Disk Drive Low Level Format Tool if the Flashdisk is really difficult to repair.

But this method will not be useful if your flashdisk is physically damaged.