I have a 2yr old Medion 8GB USB drive that I use, to repair windows, via boot programs
The weirdness is
It will still boot up & run as normal (No issues there)
Upon inserting into Windows to check for updates etc It (Has gone very slow for Windows to show the files on the drive)
I can view the files in windows 7 or Vista
I can still drag
ndrop files to the drive
I can remove files from the drive
Windows complains that it needs a (scan and fix the drive) & I always make a rule to do so (straight away)
Yet as normal windows is not up to the task
So I thought I would format it & start again (NO CHANCE)
I have attempted to format via a right click stays @ 0% for as long as I let it & CMDline, reports back (Windows was unable to complete the format)
I have also thrown at it
USB Disk Storage Format Tool at it, which is the 1
st time it has ever let me down, as it says it can not find the drive (where I can view it in Windows) & it shows up as Drive E:
Rufus Another that has never let me down, just hangs for approx 5 minutes, here is the log
[code= log File= Rufus log]Found USB 2.0 device 'USB Device' (090C:1000)
Found USB 2.0 device 'Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device' (05E3:0727)
Device eliminated because it appears to contain no media
1 device found
No volume information for disk 0x82
Disk type: Removable, Sector Size: 512 bytes
Cylinders: 956, TracksPerCylinder: 255, SectorsPerTrack: 63
Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 1
Disk ID: 0xC3072E18
Drive has an unknown Master Boot Record
Partition 1:
Type: FAT32 (0x0b)
Size: 7.3 GB (7864303616 bytes)
Start Sector: 32, Boot: Yes, Recognized: Yes
Format operation started
Requesting disk access...
Caution: Opened drive \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2 for write access
Will use 'E:' as volume mountpoint
Analyzing existing boot records...
Drive has an unknown Master Boot Record
Volume does not have an x86 Partition Boot Record
Deleting partitions...
Could not delete drive layout: [0x00000079] The semaphore timeout period has expired.
Could not reset partitions
Re-mounted volume as 'E:' after error
Found USB 2.0 device 'USB Device' (090C:1000)
Found USB 2.0 device 'Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device' (05E3:0727)
Device eliminated because it appears to contain no media
1 device found
No volume information for disk 0x82
Disk type: Removable, Sector Size: 512 bytes
Cylinders: 956, TracksPerCylinder: 255, SectorsPerTrack: 63
Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 1
Disk ID: 0xC3072E18
Drive has an unknown Master Boot Record
Partition 1:
Type: FAT32 (0x0b)
Size: 7.3 GB (7864303616 bytes)
Start Sector: 32, Boot: Yes, Recognized: Yes
Found USB 2.0 device 'USB Device' (090C:1000)
Found USB 2.0 device 'Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device' (05E3:0727)
Device eliminated because it appears to contain no media
1 device found
No volume information for disk 0x82
Disk type: Removable, Sector Size: 512 bytes
Cylinders: 956, TracksPerCylinder: 255, SectorsPerTrack: 63
Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 1
Disk ID: 0xC3072E18
Drive has an unknown Master Boot Record
Partition 1:
Type: FAT32 (0x0b)
Size: 7.3 GB (7864303616 bytes)
Start Sector: 32, Boot: Yes, Recognized: Yes
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I have thrown Avast / MalwareBytes & came back clean (so they can recognise the drive & files on it)
Been tested on both Vista & Windows 7 (to rule out O/S issue(s))
Not going to waste anymore time with it
Time to invest in some new USB Drive(s) as I have few Medion's, before Windows fails to recognise the drive, & or it fails to bootup into the programs I need to use
