Cruzer blade 16GB not recognized

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Hello.

I have a problem with my 16GB Cruzer Blade.

The drive corrupted during format made by microsoft software.

Now, drive not appeared in “my computer”.

Sometimes it appears on “Disk manager” but I can not make format because it say other process use the usb.

Other times it appears on “Device Manager” as “WPD File System Volume” with a yellow “!” aside him.

Any solution?

Thank you.

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Why were you formating it?  And to what file format?

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Hi.

Tried to format it to NTFS (bootable) to install windows from USB and not from DVD.

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You probably have one of the new SanDisk drives configured to be Fixed rather than Removable.  (A Windows 8 requirement).  It shouldn’t have stopped it from being formated but will stop it from being used to install Windows without some jerking around, but it can be done.  A search of the forum for msgs the past 6 months or so should yield the steps.

BTW & FWIW I have flash drives formatted as FAT16 and FAT32 that are bootable, some with U3 still installed on them.  NTFS does not equate to bootable.