How to repair your usb flash drive

USB flash drives are a widely used tool in our day to day and is widely used with almost any electronic device. But sometimes, misuse or incompatibility error with the device or operating system can cause them to fail and physically damage your software. Therefore, we have brought you this interesting guide on how to revive these USB flash drives in an easy way for any user to do so.

• A computer with a USB connection The damaged Pendrive HP HP Disk Storage Format Tool application.

Once the “HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool” application has been downloaded, we will proceed to its installation -> like all Windows installations, it is press next. We will create an icon like this on our desktop:

First, we insert our USB stick / mp3 or mp4 player in any of the USB connections of our computer. Okay, now we start the application and the following screen should appear.

As we see it has perfectly recognized our USB flash drive (It is a Kingston 8GB USB 2.0). We select the type of system file (NTFS, FAT32 or FAT) in our case FAT32, if we want, we can insert the name that we want to give to the USB key (we have left it blank). And here the most important process is leaving the Quick Format and Enable Compression options unchecked or deselected for a clean, somewhat slow but safe process.

When the application finishes recovering and / or correcting our pendrive, it will launch a small window with the information log: disk size, useful space and will mark the defective sectors if they exist.

This application is also very useful to create a USB flash drive with DOS boot sector. Very interesting option to flash devices, graphics cards or our motherboards.