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So I inturrupted a dd for windows operation, and now my usb stick won't work. I saw this post but, it's solution doesn't work for me, as i don't have a chromebook. Attempts to format the drive just say "The system cannot find the file specified." as seen here:

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Not_Lazy
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  • use diskpart to clean the uSB drive: http://www.howtogeek.com/235824/how-to-clean-a-flash-drive-sd-card-or-internal-drive-to-fix-partition-and-capacity-problems/ ATTENTION make sure that you selected the correct drive and not different ones otherwise you have data loos. – magicandre1981 Jun 19 '16 at 07:51
  • @magicandre1981 Make that an answer and i'll mark it as the answer. you got 5 minutes before i do it myself lol – Not_Lazy Jun 19 '16 at 08:33

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If Windows disk management MMC snapin fails, you can use the command line tool diskpart

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  • run list disk to list all available disks and use select disk NUMBER to select the USB flash drive

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and now run clean to clean the drive.

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Now run Disk Management, create a new Volume on the flash drive.

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If above not work - like in my case, you can have wrong or badly builded partition format: different partition format:

Try to convert MBR partition to GPT. I've done it in MiniTool Partition Wizard app.

You can easly convert it right clicking and choosing coresponding option: converting drive format

After that it should work even without formating (I could access files prevously saved on that drive)

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Cleaning in DISKPART does not always work (it didn't for me). See Recovering a Partially Formatted USB Thumb Drive for some good answers for USB sticks that are proving difficult to recover.

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  • "See there" is a comment, not a good answer. – Kamil Maciorowski Jun 18 '21 at 18:17
  • OK, but the best answer there is really long (and not mine) and it didn't seem a good idea to copy it all over. I have been looking at several SuperUser posts on this problem, and that post seems to have the best answers. Surely it is helpful to point people to where the answer is. I did an answer here not a comment because comments don't always get read (or even displayed by default). – Alasdair K Jun 18 '21 at 18:24