How To Fix A Dead Flash Drive

Before explaining the tutorial; there are 2 important questions:

1. Do you want to abandon your data? (but lose your flash drive)
   
2. Do you want to format your flash drive and still use your flash drive, but lose your data?

When your flash drive is connected to the PC and suddenly your PC crashes or freeze, and whn you restart it turns out your flash drive mailfunctioned, the Windows OS automatically detect it as 0 MB capacity and shows a message to format it. But actually you can't, because the flash drive won't work.

If this is the case, don't worry because flash disk failure could still be repaired although your data is unretreivable.

Here is how to fix your flash drive:

1. The software you need is HP Drive Boot Utility (its made by HP but you could use it on other brands, even digital camera storage).
2. After download, run it and choose the drive you want to repair.
3. Choose the format type (FAT, FAT32 or NTFS)
4. Choose Quick Format
5. Then click start.

Here is where you can download the software/program

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&mode=3&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839