Fixed: USB drive unusable, unformattable, and reporting 0 bytes capacity The drive properties show: Type: Removable Disk File system: Unknown Used space 0 bytes Free space 0 bytes Capacity 0 bytes The Volumes tab shows: Type: Removable Status: No Media Partition style: Not Applicable Capacity: 0 MB Unallocated space: 0 MB Reserved space: 0 MB Opening the Disk Management component of the Computer Management console shows that the drive is connected, but there is no unallocated space to partition or format. Other things about the disk look normal. It shows up in the Device Manager as working correctly, without any warnings, for example. I Googled around and found that many, many people were running into this problem where the drive starts reporting 0 bytes capacity and can not be formatted. Of the dozens of pages that I read, no one found a fix for the problem. The most common solution offered was to return the drive to the manufacturer for replacement. Well, I wasn’t going to publicize my mistake and return the drives, I was going to repair them. Software that didn’t help Feel free to skip this part if you’re not interested in reading about the many dead-ends I explored. I knew of one nifty program that had helped me out a few times before, so I tried running the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool v2.1.8, but attempting to format the drive with this utility returned the following error message: There is no media in the specified device. Someone suggested using this thing called “Apacer Repair v2.9.1.1” to reformat the drive, so I tried that, but the software only reported “USB Flash Disk not found!” when I ran it. Someone else recommended FreeCommander, but that failed to open the drive, too. I tried the free trial of the utility from www.flashmemorytoolkit.com/, but it reported the same information as Windows XP - that the device contained a disk with 0 bytes capacity. Maybe the full version could have done more, but I put that on the back burner. A number of people suggested attacking it with partitioning software, which I wasn’t looking forward to doing, but was willing to try. Another last resort was going to be using the Windows XP Recovery Console’s fixboot and fixmbr commands, which got me out of a pinch when I screwed up a partition. What I should have tried to begin with Then I had an idea. I had a clean drive that had escaped my earlier bungling. I plugged it in, copied the contents to my desktop and tried to run the U3 LaunchPad software. Nothing happened, so I started looking more closely at the files. One of the files was called SanDiskFormatExtension.dll, which sounded promising. Now I just needed to figure out how to run the SanDisk installer to reformat the drive. I tried all of the .exe’s and .msi’s that shipped with the drive, but nothing wanted to run from the folder on my desktop. Just as I was running out of options, I opened the autorun.inf file and found a very interesting entry: 1[Update] 2URL=u3.sandisk.com/download/lp_installer.asp?custom=1.6.1.2&brand=PelicanBFG The fix So, with nothing to lose, I pasted u3.sandisk.com/download/lp_installer.asp?custom=1.6.1.2&brand=PelicanBFG into Internet Explorer, thinking that it would at least get me some new files that might allow me to reformat the drive. I followed a few prompts and lo, the U3 Launchpad Installer software launched and restored the drive to its factory settings of 2 GB capacity formatted as FAT. It even replaced the original U3 files, making it truly good-as-new. I’m astonished that this information isn’t more widely available, particularly on the SanDisk support site and forums, as this 0 capacity problem seems to affect a good number of drives and there are many threads where this issue remains unresolved. Note that the page at u3.sandisk.com/download/lp_installer.asp?custom=1.6.1.2&brand=PelicanBFG requires you to install an ActiveX component, so you must use Internet Explorer. Otherwise, you can download the latest version of the U3 Launchpad Installer executable from the Sandisk KB. Of course, if you’re not using a SanDisk drive, it’s rather unlikely that this software will fix your drive, but maybe your device’s manufacturer has something similar. There are also a number of good ideas in the comments below, so definitely read through them for more options. If you’re trying to restore the drive’s contents or recover files, the all of the methods described on this page will format (erase) the drive and are not format. Source : Ardamis
The above link - u3.sandisk.com/download/lp_installer.asp?custom=1.6.1.2&brand=PelicanBFG - is dead. Do you know where I can get this software now. Thanks
this method works, tho first try to use in the Command prompt "chkdsk C:/r" of course substitute the C: for whatever drive your trying to fix and the /r means repair. and if your using this method in this vid be very careful to select the one you are trying to fix, your drive letters may be different than the ones in the vid.
Thank you so much for your video. It helped me a lot to recover my Pen Drive back. Usually, if we format using a format by right click over a removable device, it will format there by reduce the size of the Pen Drive too. Like before format if it is 14.3 then after format it shows 14.2 i.e. the total size. So, I decided to format via command prompt to save my disk space in my Pen Drive. Your video helped me a lot!! TYSM!! Keep your great work going on!!
Worked perfectly for me , thank you very much for the content. Keep up the good work. I wanted to detect an undetectable usb flash and no matter what kind of program I used or method tried , nothing worked. The steps followed by this guy's explanation definitely solved my issue.
pls. help me to fix this problem "DiskPart has encountered an error: The system cannot find the file specified. See the System Event Log for more information."
Thanks for making this video. I get another error: DISKPART> clean DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information.
Great video 100% working!, save my adata uv128/64gb, only change for me is in cmd no fat32 but exfat the format finish in 2 second Thanks man, keep the good working!
dude thanks a lot...it happened with my friend's pen drive that i borrowed, and i thought of buying a new one...but thanks to ur effort...i don't have to... :D
It did totally worked for me but the only step I did miss was fs=fat32 quick (a 128G scadisk usb 3.0) I had to go NTFS instead yet worked perfeclty. Here is the reason why, apparently, ----Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup. If you need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it
When I give clean i am getting an error "The System cannot find the file Specified" and my FS is RAW not FAT32. Could you please help to rectify this issue
DISKPART> detail disk USB Device Disk ID: 00000000 Type : USB Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : UNAVAILABLE Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No There are no volumes. Do you have an idea of how to solve it?
Thank thank you thank you so much man you don't know what you did for me like I just first time I made mistake by using CMD command and cleaned my pendrive and then it's not working at all then I watched your video I just did same as you and I got my pendrive back but I think my pendrive capacity storage was 64 GB and its shows me 32gb but it's okay
I HAVE 16 GB SANDISK PENDRIVE it was write protected i Tried to repair using cmd now it is not shown in my computer while it is showing in disk management what should i do
DiskPart has encountered an error: The device is not ready. See the System Event Log for more information.this message show when i write clean please give me solution of this problem
i have the problem Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 7 Removable 7385 MB Healthy Offline DISKPART> select volum 7 Volume 7 is the selected volume. DISKPART> clean DiskPart has encountered an error: Access is denied. See the System Event Log for more information.
I followed the steps from d video but my usb drive is showing that in detail partition active status is NO... And its not cleaning and not creating an primary partition... how to fix this.. plzz help me out!!
dear after cleaning error show as is ( DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be preformed because of an I/0 device error. see the System Event Log for more information.) pls tell how to fix?
I followed all what you said step by step by when i type "format fs=fat32 quick" it says that "The volume size is too big." my USB Flash Drive is 128GB .. what do i do now?
my samsung 16 gb sd card is not showing in phone and laptop. It shows no media in disk management. i used to do cmd. but list disk command shows no media as status and size 0 mb. can i fix and use my sd card.? please reply..
i am stuck in a creepy situation! Mine pendrive says it is write protected. and its even not showing pendrive juts showing removal disk nothing else will your method work here?pls help
My pendrive bootable I format them directly after format I want to normal my bootable pendrive I open cmd diskpart list disk only show my hard disk not show pendrive pls help disk 1 missing but my pendrive show in my computer
bahi mera pass aik USB ha HP ki go pehla hi se krab ha ya USB data save in krti kabi kabi data ko 255 GB or 65 GB tak show hota ha per USB ka size 32 GB ha or go file gese ka men's windows 7 or windows xp ki iso files ki ha to WO wala folder 255 GB ka hota or kabi kabi USB ki properties me 0byty size or koi chize in hoti pta in masla kia ha
tried chkdsk command but it stoped at 96% nd show error like the DCIM camera folder have some non valid link. and also tried the disk part process to clean it bt showed I/o device error. is there something I can do... plzzz help😩😩🙏🙏
hlo bro... at the time of diskpart> clean it is showing an error i.e. (Diskpart has encountered an error. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information.) what type of error is this and how to get out of this error and repair my pendrive... Please reply me...
Fixed: USB drive unusable, unformattable, and reporting 0 bytes capacity
The drive properties show:
Type: Removable Disk
File system: Unknown
Used space 0 bytes
Free space 0 bytes
Capacity 0 bytes
The Volumes tab shows:
Type: Removable
Status: No Media
Partition style: Not Applicable
Capacity: 0 MB
Unallocated space: 0 MB
Reserved space: 0 MB
Opening the Disk Management component of the Computer Management console shows that the drive is connected, but there is no unallocated space to partition or format.
Other things about the disk look normal. It shows up in the Device Manager as working correctly, without any warnings, for example.
I Googled around and found that many, many people were running into this problem where the drive starts reporting 0 bytes capacity and can not be formatted. Of the dozens of pages that I read, no one found a fix for the problem. The most common solution offered was to return the drive to the manufacturer for replacement. Well, I wasn’t going to publicize my mistake and return the drives, I was going to repair them.
Software that didn’t help
Feel free to skip this part if you’re not interested in reading about the many dead-ends I explored.
I knew of one nifty program that had helped me out a few times before, so I tried running the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool v2.1.8, but attempting to format the drive with this utility returned the following error message:
There is no media in the specified device.
Someone suggested using this thing called “Apacer Repair v2.9.1.1” to reformat the drive, so I tried that, but the software only reported “USB Flash Disk not found!” when I ran it.
Someone else recommended FreeCommander, but that failed to open the drive, too.
I tried the free trial of the utility from www.flashmemorytoolkit.com/, but it reported the same information as Windows XP - that the device contained a disk with 0 bytes capacity. Maybe the full version could have done more, but I put that on the back burner.
A number of people suggested attacking it with partitioning software, which I wasn’t looking forward to doing, but was willing to try.
Another last resort was going to be using the Windows XP Recovery Console’s fixboot and fixmbr commands, which got me out of a pinch when I screwed up a partition.
What I should have tried to begin with
Then I had an idea. I had a clean drive that had escaped my earlier bungling. I plugged it in, copied the contents to my desktop and tried to run the U3 LaunchPad software. Nothing happened, so I started looking more closely at the files. One of the files was called SanDiskFormatExtension.dll, which sounded promising. Now I just needed to figure out how to run the SanDisk installer to reformat the drive. I tried all of the .exe’s and .msi’s that shipped with the drive, but nothing wanted to run from the folder on my desktop.
Just as I was running out of options, I opened the autorun.inf file and found a very interesting entry:
1[Update]
2URL=u3.sandisk.com/download/lp_installer.asp?custom=1.6.1.2&brand=PelicanBFG
The fix
So, with nothing to lose, I pasted u3.sandisk.com/download/lp_installer.asp?custom=1.6.1.2&brand=PelicanBFG into Internet Explorer, thinking that it would at least get me some new files that might allow me to reformat the drive. I followed a few prompts and lo, the U3 Launchpad Installer software launched and restored the drive to its factory settings of 2 GB capacity formatted as FAT. It even replaced the original U3 files, making it truly good-as-new.
I’m astonished that this information isn’t more widely available, particularly on the SanDisk support site and forums, as this 0 capacity problem seems to affect a good number of drives and there are many threads where this issue remains unresolved.
Note that the page at u3.sandisk.com/download/lp_installer.asp?custom=1.6.1.2&brand=PelicanBFG requires you to install an ActiveX component, so you must use Internet Explorer.
Otherwise, you can download the latest version of the U3 Launchpad Installer executable from the Sandisk KB.
Of course, if you’re not using a SanDisk drive, it’s rather unlikely that this software will fix your drive, but maybe your device’s manufacturer has something similar. There are also a number of good ideas in the comments below, so definitely read through them for more options.
If you’re trying to restore the drive’s contents or recover files, the all of the methods described on this page will format (erase) the drive and are not format.
Source : Ardamis
The above link - u3.sandisk.com/download/lp_installer.asp?custom=1.6.1.2&brand=PelicanBFG -
is dead. Do you know where I can get this software now. Thanks
Sir my disk ltr/1 and FS /RAW
this method works, tho first try to use in the Command prompt "chkdsk C:/r" of course substitute the C: for whatever drive your trying to fix and the /r means repair. and if your using this method in this vid be very careful to select the one you are trying to fix, your drive letters may be different than the ones in the vid.
this video uploaded 8 years ago, but today i got help from you, thank you a lot.
Had tried everything but nothing worked. This is the one thing that did, thank you so much!
Thank you so much for your video. It helped me a lot to recover my Pen Drive back. Usually, if we format using a format by right click over a removable device, it will format there by reduce the size of the Pen Drive too. Like before format if it is 14.3 then after format it shows 14.2 i.e. the total size. So, I decided to format via command prompt to save my disk space in my Pen Drive. Your video helped me a lot!! TYSM!! Keep your great work going on!!
Worked perfectly for me , thank you very much for the content. Keep up the good work. I wanted to detect an undetectable usb flash and no matter what kind of program I used or method tried , nothing worked. The steps followed by this guy's explanation definitely solved my issue.
Thanks bhai i was tried 6 hours but finally you have solved my problrms thanku very much bhai
Sir my pd is not showing even in cmd
I'm getting this error "diskpart has encountered an error: the system cannot find the file specified. see the system event log for more information"
pls. help me to fix this problem
"DiskPart has encountered an error: The system cannot find the file specified.
See the System Event Log for more information."
Any solution found?
my usb disk show: there are no volumes....
Thanx man..thanx a lot..able to fix my USB drive by ur video...
Thanks for making this video.
I get another error:
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
See the System Event Log for more information.
I got this same error...cant find a solution
For my device, its showing status as "NO MEDIA" and size as "0". Please help me to debug this error.
Great video 100% working!, save my adata uv128/64gb, only change for me is in cmd no fat32 but exfat the format finish in 2 second
Thanks man, keep the good working!
Thank you brother respect from INDIA
my usb device status is showing as no media. how to recover such a usb drive which is not showing either in device managment
idk how
I also have this problem
i also have this problem
I also have this problem
on my hard drive, cmd shows me that there is no volume. I need help to fix this hard drive
same here! Please help
Try again it will come
Thank you sooooo much sir... My problem was solved 😊... No words to say about my happyness..thanks thanks thanks sir.. Thanks a lot 😊
dude thanks a lot...it happened with my friend's pen drive that i borrowed, and i thought of buying a new one...but thanks to ur effort...i don't have to... :D
Thanks bro
It' very useful
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Wese very good
Amazing
It did totally worked for me but the only step I did miss was fs=fat32 quick (a 128G scadisk usb 3.0) I had to go NTFS instead yet worked perfeclty. Here is the reason why, apparently, ----Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup. If you need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it
this is my problem but usb doesnt show on cmd either disk management
Thanks I am able to repair my USB stick by watching this video. Thanks Again!!!
It totally worked.
Thank you so much sir!
Bro y SD card hangs all the PC and Also CMD please tell me the solution 😭
Diskpart has encountered an error: The system cannot find the file specified. See system event log for more information.
Everything works good but stuck on detail partition it shows no partition selected please select the partition
after "clean" step i am facing the problem ' the request could not be performed because of an I/o device error. :/
this method does not work with fully coruted usb drive
When I give clean i am getting an error "The System cannot find the file Specified" and my FS is RAW not FAT32. Could you please help to rectify this issue
brother apka bhot bhot dhanyavad thanku for this video you saved my pendrive thanku
DISKPART> detail disk
USB Device
Disk ID: 00000000
Type : USB
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
There are no volumes.
Do you have an idea of how to solve it?
command prompt is not able to read the external drive. when I type d: nothing happens. it is just stuck.
what a legend lmao GOAT
You are life saver thank you so much
Virtual Disk Service error:
The volume size is too big.
My problem after format the message is virtual disk service error the volume size is too big
2021 still helped thanks ❤️
Pen drive not showing in disk Management also not showing in cmd. so what do you think It may be recovered or not
THIS AWESOME :) !!!. HATS OFF SIR
Thank thank you thank you so much man you don't know what you did for me like I just first time I made mistake by using CMD command and cleaned my pendrive and then it's not working at all then I watched your video I just did same as you and I got my pendrive back but I think my pendrive capacity storage was 64 GB and its shows me 32gb but it's okay
Your video helped a lot❤️❤️❤️
Very helpful thank you my guy
LIFE SAVER 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
big thanks to u man .....guys dont waste timing on watching other videos...
youre a life saver bro
Thanks, brother! its working.
Showing no partition after the volume step
what if the usb is not showing on disk list and disk management? it only shows on my device manager>disk drive
Yes, very good. However, what if in the Size category there is zero (0) bytes, as well?
When I type detail partition it says there is no partition please select a partition and try again plz help
Yes same here
Thank you very much. It is very clear.
Thank you so much, you're the man!
I HAVE 16 GB SANDISK PENDRIVE it was write protected i Tried to repair using cmd now it is not shown in my computer while it is showing in disk management what should i do
DiskPart has encountered an error: The device is not ready.
See the System Event Log for more information.this message show when i write clean please give me solution of this problem
i have the problem
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 7 Removable 7385 MB Healthy Offline
DISKPART> select volum 7
Volume 7 is the selected volume.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart has encountered an error: Access is denied.
See the System Event Log for more information.
I got help from this, i really appreciate
when it cmd clean. its show this device is not ready.
after typing detail volume its says no volume on my pen drive whats problem in my pen drive?
my usb shows zero in both, volume capacity nd volume free space
Harshh Ranjan killer virus attacked your flash drive
mine is usb unrecognizable is it corrupted or something? how can I fix it? it said it got error 43
I followed the steps from d video but my usb drive is showing that in detail partition active status is NO...
And its not cleaning and not creating an primary partition...
how to fix this.. plzz help me out!!
disk part has encountered an error:the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.what i have to do?
it says that there is no partition selected when i type detail partition
dear after cleaning error show as is ( DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be preformed because of an I/0 device error. see the System Event Log for more information.) pls tell how to fix?
How to fix " Cannot Open Volume for direct access" on the Micro SD card?
i used same command in last when i used clean it is showing error "input /output device error "
I followed all what you said step by step by when i type "format fs=fat32 quick" it says that "The volume size is too big." my USB Flash Drive is 128GB .. what do i do now?
Try FS=NTFS insteadof fat32. sorry for late reply
when in cmd its not showing its real size
diskpart has encountered an error; data error(cyclic redundancy check).
after final command clean this is what shown in my pc.
I didn't completely format and took my drive out.After that now when i am trying to do that again i cannot see my drive 1
cant format it shows disk is write protected and pendrive dosint have letter
it is written clean is not allowed on the system cointaining current boot
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Awesome video thank you !
Thx..but volume is not showing
List disk shows disk 1(0 B)
Nxt what to do
my samsung 16 gb sd card is not showing in phone and laptop. It shows no media in disk management. i used to do cmd. but list disk command shows no media as status and size 0 mb. can i fix and use my sd card.? please reply..
Hi when I type in diskpart it doesn’t load at all but as soon as I remove the external drive it will give me the prompt diskpart please help
my memory card is showing no media file in cmd what should I do
i did every thing but its saying the parameter is incorrect
Link is disabled Please give me a download link
i am stuck in a creepy situation! Mine pendrive says it is write protected. and its even not showing pendrive juts showing removal disk nothing else
will your method work here?pls help
My pendrive bootable I format them directly after format I want to normal my bootable pendrive I open cmd diskpart list disk only show my hard disk not show pendrive pls help disk 1 missing but my pendrive show in my computer
yip worked for me too , many thanks
when I enter the usb to my pc it cannot show in pc and my usb becames hot after 40/45 sec
rep
My Partition Is Not Selecting.
bahi mera pass aik USB ha HP ki go pehla hi se krab ha ya USB data save in krti kabi kabi data ko 255 GB or 65 GB tak show hota ha per USB ka size 32 GB ha or go file gese ka men's windows 7 or windows xp ki iso files ki ha to WO wala folder 255 GB ka hota or kabi kabi USB ki properties me 0byty size or koi chize in hoti pta in masla kia ha
After all that done it shows formating file is too large
thank you you are the best u fixed my day
after typing detail partition am told to select a partition
It says, there are no volumes : (
when i do this i revived like (the request could not be preformed because of an i/o device error) how it will correct?
Mine has 3 partition where to choose
tried chkdsk command but it stoped at 96% nd show error like the DCIM camera folder have some non valid link. and also tried the disk part process to clean it bt showed I/o device error. is there something I can do... plzzz help😩😩🙏🙏
Hello my disk isn't even after using list disk
sir it says "the volume size is too big." after I typed "format fs=fat32"
can you help me ? thanks
yeah same with me
Same with me
if your usb size is more than 4 gb then type "ntfs" instead of "fat32"
If this helps you then please subscribe my channel
if your drive is of any more size than 4 gb u need to have ntfs format
hlo bro...
at the time of diskpart> clean
it is showing an error i.e.
(Diskpart has encountered an error. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
See the System Event Log for more information.)
what type of error is this and how to get out of this error and repair my pendrive...
Please reply me...
Amazing.. thanks
did it work for usb joy stick? my problem is same, usb not recognized. help me please :)
my case disk1 not showing what can i do