My NEW SanDisk Ultra 64GB USB died!

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I just bought this USB three weeks ago and all of a sudden today its not being recognized in any computer.

When I plug it into my PC (Windows) I can see the drive in Device Manager but it says 0bytes.

When I view the list of drives in diskpart I can see it but the same thing is shown, 0B.

What happened? This is very upsetting to see that it died only 3 weeks in and has bearly been used…

What am I to do?

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if the same thing is happening on multiple computers the drive is likely dead. contact the place of purchase for a return since you are withing 30 days of purchase or contact sandisk support and submit a warranty claim. 

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My 128gb ultra fit has also died. It got very hot when plugged into a usb 3.0 slot, but ok in usb 2.0., but why use a slower port for a faster drive?

 It reported errors while checking witn h2testw too, around 1mb per 1gb checked, so I decided to reformat it to fat32 and re-check it. It died while checking!

I don’t understand why Sandisk continue to sell these, as I have read many, many posts from others with similar problems.

This one is going back for sure.

It’s a pity, as I don’t have a drive big enough to hold my, very large collection of CDs to play in the car.

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FAT32 doesn’t support drives that large.  If it worked you would only get access to about 1/3 the drive.

It appears that these drives hold a lot, work great for being read but die when people try to fill them initially rather than over time.  If you load all your CDs to it in a USB 2 port it should work in your car ok.  It will just take longer loading it initially.  Then replacing CDs on it periodically should be ok in a USB 3 port.

IMO

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using diskpart menu, can you CLEAN, then convert to mbr, then go to MANAGE, format as exfat or ntfs, and then run a diagnostic on it?