sandisk cruzer 16gb I cannot Format has turned into a raw

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My sandisk sumeru 64 GB wasnt accessable from my notebook. windows 10 reported it as formatted raw.

Googled from forums and webs and installed few recommended recovery softwares albeit with no success.

Tried your solution, uninstall it from the device manager and it works! just like what it was before …

Thanks. youre one genius noobie …

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YOU JUST DOWNLOAD “HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool” AND FORMAT YOUR USB.SİMPLE.

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Thank You for your advice it worked for me 100%

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When your USB flash drive becomes RAW, you cannot use Windows’ built-in repair tool CHKDSK to fix the errors. This is because a RAW partition means its file system metadata is not recognized by Windows or is missing a file system. CHKDSK is designed to repair drives with the correct file system (such as NTFS, exFAT, FAT32). In other words, if a problematic drive does not have a recognizable file system, CHKDSK won’t run. In this case, you can use a specialized third-party tool to repair the RAW partition. After repair, the partition will become accessible and usable, eliminating the need to reformat the USB drive.

If the USB drive cannot be repaired, you can use the DiskPart command line to erase the device, create a new partition on it, and then format it to your desired format. [ Related how-to guide - What to Do When You Fail to Format External Hard Drive in Raw? ]