USB Stick Not working File system Wipped!?

Question

Hi I recently brought a EMTEC 4Gb Red USB Memory stick from Tesco,s.

Whilst trying to remove 3 corrupt picture files on the drive I removed the FAT 32 file system from the drive by accident.This was done either through me formatting the drive then error checking through Tools.

If I plug in the USB drive I get the symbol of the drive under my computer but if i try to open it i get the message "Please insert a drive into drive H".

The used space and free space showing 0 bytes and the file system is showing unknown under properties.

Is the stick now dead or can I recover it to work again?

I use the stick on a Windows XP Service pack 3 operating system.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Type 'compmgmt.msc /s' into run without the quotes.

Click Disk Management and right click the drive letter of the USB drive.

You can format the drive from here.