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So I tried converting a USB flash drive (16 gb) to live usb for a Linux distribution, Not going into details, it ended with me deleting those files and trying to format the USB drive and this happened to the USB drive.

You can see the drive is grayed out

I tried formatting it, and it showed

"There is no disk in drive E:

Insert a disk, and then try again."

Then I tried using disk management, changing the letter and so on, and it showed this disk management screenshot

I also tried using deskpart, but it still didn't worked. It showed:

Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
--------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
Disk 1    No Media           0 B      0 B

What should I do to make the usb drive workable again? I am fine if all the data is lost because it wasn't important, but I would like the USB drive to work again.

SMG
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    @Tetsujin, Thank you for the comment, I will try the methods in the answers – SMG Jan 08 '21 at 09:35
  • @Tetsujin I tried the methods in the answer, it didn't work. Rufus didn't even detect the usb flash drive. And I also installed HP recovery tool for USB, it detected the flash drive but couldn't format it as there is no media in it – SMG Jan 08 '21 at 09:56
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    The other question is more an explanation of how it's broken permanently than how to make it work again. Flash drives are very fragile & just die for no apparent reason. Usually the only thing to do unless data on it is valuable is bin it & buy another. – Tetsujin Jan 08 '21 at 09:59

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