SanDisk Extreme 16 GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive SDCZ80-016G-X46

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So I received the aformentioned flash drive this weekend from Amazon.com.

Hell, what kind of ■■■■ piece is this? I am bugging since 2 hours to get it work, reading forums, troubleshooting through google and nothing works.

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The drive is not being shown at all! I cannot format it, it gives me an error that the device cannot be formated, neither NTFS, Fat32, exFAT is working - nothing!!! Tested on 2 other laptops, same issues.

Some guys here said to uninstall mass storage controller under USB in the system device settings, I did this twice and ended up twice with a BSOD loop. I had to recover/repair to a proper working older image twice in order to get back to windows.

Is this flash drive a piece of gargabe and something for the RMA?

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if the drive cant be formatted on multiple computers it is pretty much dead and will need to be RMAed

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Return it to the seller, if possible.  It’s defective.  And if the seller won’t take it back return it to SanDisk.

http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5232/~/return-material-authorization-(rma)-process

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Did you play around with the partition on this USB? I see that you had an option with GPT and MBR. Also, plug this on a different PC and see what happens.