Timeline for How to fix USB flash drives showing unallocated space in diskmgmt?
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| Dec 18, 2022 at 21:26 | comment | added | Joep van Steen | Unallocated in Disk Management means 'no partitions detected'. It has not to do 'with lost file systems', it's just describing a state. | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 9:25 | comment | added | Tom Yan | No idea then, at least not on/with Windows. It sounds like the drive is dead / bricked. No idea how it could happen to three of your drives though. (Could they be counterfeit?) | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 8:45 | comment | added | kartik |
@TomYan Yes - so I open cmd with admin rights, open diskmgmt and diskpart. In diskpart I select the disk in which I added a simple volume as you suggested, and used clean all. It waited a few seconds & then said again "Diskpart has encountered an error, Access is denied" but on Disk Management it shows that the volume on that disk has been cleared and now it shows Unallocated again. What should I do?
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| Dec 18, 2022 at 8:07 | comment | added | Tom Yan | @kartik Did you use an admin command prompt? | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 8:01 | comment | added | kartik |
Hello @Shivam, thanks for replying. When I go to diskpart and use clean after list disk & select disk 2 for eg., it says this - "Diskpart has encountered an error, Access is denied". Then this appears in system logs - "Cannot zero sectors on disk \\?\PhysicalDrive2. Error code: 5@0101000F". Then I receive "please insert a disk into USB drive E:" popup. What should I do?
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| Dec 18, 2022 at 7:38 | history | edited | Shivam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Dec 18, 2022 at 7:36 | history | answered | Shivam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |