How to Fix or Repair a Pen Drive or SD card That’s Broken or Not Recognized
An age-old problem. Every computer user has faced this problem. What I speak of, is the tragedy of the corrupted USB Pen drive or SD Card.
No matter what you do, at some point, your computer will simply refuse to read your USB drive. Fortunately, though, there are ways to rectify this with one only needing to use a command prompt.
Step 1:
Connect the corrupted drive to your machine
Step 2:
Open the command prompt either by typingย cmd in the Start menu search bar or by hittingย Windows Key + Rย followed by typing cmd in the dialog box that pops up.
Step 3:
In the command prompt, enter the following commands.
Type diskpart and press Enter.
Next type list disk and press Enter.
Step 4:
Then typeย select diskย followed by the number of your disk and hit enter
Step 5:
After the disk is selected, you will need to typeย clean into the command prompt and hit enter.
Step 6:
Next command isย creates partition primary.
Step 7:
Typeย activeย and hit enter followed byย select partition 1.
Step 8:
In the last step, typeย format fs=fat32 and press enter. Once this step is completed you should find your USB drive working as good as new. If not, go back through the steps and see what you missed. A screenshot of how the process looks is attached below.
