How to Fix a Corrupted Flash Drive and Recover Data?

Experiencing a corrupted flash drive issue can be frustrating. In this video, we'll show you step-by-step how to fix a corrupted flash drive and recover your data from a flash drive. More text tutorial:

Timestamp:
0:00 Intro
0:45 What Causes the Flash Drive Become Corrupted?
1:49 How to Fix a Corrupted USB Flash Drive Using CMD?
3:51 How to Recover Data from a Corrupted Flash Drive?

When it comes to flash drives, data corruption can occur for a variety of reasons for various reasons. The following are some of the most often occurring causes:
Malware or viruses: If your flash drive becomes infected with malware or a virus, it can lead to the corruption of data or possibly the loss of data. Power surges: If your computer encounters an unexpected power surge or loss while your flash drive is plugged into it, it can cause harm to the drive and lead to the corruption of the data stored on it.
Physical damage: If your flash drive takes any kind of physical damage, including being dropped or being wet, this might lead to corruption or possibly make the drive unusable.
Incorrect removal: It's possible for data corruption to occur if you remove your flash drive from your computer while files are still being copied to it while the drive is still plugged in.
File system errors: It's possible that your flash drive could experience file system errors at some point, which would cause it to become corrupted and your data to become inaccessible.

The USB flash drive can hold all your data files, just like a traditional hard disk. A wide range of potential causes for a USB flash drive to become corrupted or unreadable, resulting in the data stored on the drive becomes inaccessible. If you incorrectly unplug the drive from the USB port, it could result in data corruption. The directory structure on the USB drive, MBR, or PBR, could get corrupted as a result of the data corruption.
Follow the steps in this video to solve your flash drive issues and restore the data on the USB device.

[jwill]

My thumb drive will not show up in the "list disk" list.

[kenrickeason]

I keep getting *Data error (cyclic redundancy check)* message..

[geraldthorburn]

Chicken and Egg: USB is un-recognised and displays no Drive Letter. Just gets rejected and does not display on 'This PC' or in 'Disk Management'. So how do you do it then? All the Tutorials assume you can see a Drive Letter/the USB, which simply issues a Yellow rejection notice near the Tray. A CMD command might work, but again all the 'solutions' assume a Drive Letter is known.

[wesawesa]

When I tried the steps &outputs

DISKPART> clean

Virtual Disk Service error:

There is no media in the device.

Volume 5 is the selected volume.

DISKPART> format fs-fat23

Virtual Disk Service error: The volume is not formattable.

[robertolopez]

I have bought 2 memories with the ligtngh/USA connector and they bouth works for short period.
Then the USB connector function but not not the lightning connector"
the application "Y disk" says that the memorie is not connected
I bought 2 memories and it happened the same, the lighnig doesn't work but the USB with the PC, works.. What can I Do?

[michaelyap]

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.

how to fix this error? any suggestions? Thank you for the answer

[MindFielder]

Thank you so much sir it worked . Literally searched the entire internet and found the right one. Thanks a lot ❤

[Laylowmc.]

What do i do if this shows up when i do the format fs=32 "DiskPart has encountered an error: The request is not supported. See the System Event Log for more information."

[sandipanlaha]

After clean command I encountered a Virtual Disk Service Error. It's saying that clean isn't allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume.

[jamesh.coppens]

Would it be possible to get a transcript of your video? I have too much trouble looking and typing. JC

[ZLOTYLUKE]

I keep facing a system error stating " Diskpart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrect. See the system Event log for more information" after i type format fs=fat32 or format fs =ntfs 🤔 help??

[dand]

i am following your instruction, but when i type "format fs=fat32" i get a message that reads "DiskPart has encountered an error: The request is not supported." how come? what do i do?

[the_lucifer]

What if the disk is connected & visible in remove drive but not visible in command ?

[kencreppin]

All fine and good ONLY if the computer recognizes the device in the first place... My device wasn't dropped, had no power surge wasn't removed while being written to etc. 512GB backup lost. Have other backups, so data is safe. 100% of the vids on YouTube "assume" the drive is recognized....

[sajidmahmud]

what if my memory space has decreased somehow and i have to mend it, how to do that sir?

[stonecold]

After clean command it says that diskpart has encountered an error semaphore timout

[GViralYT]

what if it says virtual disk service error : there is no media in the disk. what to do than

[Ma.DianaNelson]

To be more descriptive of what this video is I think the title of this video should mention the phrase thru the use of a software after the words Recover Data?

[pedrosaabedra]

I have a flash drive that keeps closing out by itself and let me back in, what should I do about that?

[librathefresh]

When I plug in USB it makes sound. I typed all this & it doesn't show up at all.