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Well yesterday a friend came to me and said that his usb drive was not working, i plugged it into my computer and my pc detected it but was unable to format it or access it. so i googled for a solution and found a tool called "On Belay". a shareware with some days before it asks for registeration so i decided it and gave it a try. there was a format button , and it detected the usb drive and formatted it and it told me to plug out the usb and plug back in and when i plugged it back in the usb drive was working. here is the link for the tool.

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The same day another friend came to me and said that the usb drive was not working. well now that i had the solution i tried the same tool again. but to my surprise it did not work. the message it gave was that there was no media present. well that gave me a shock and i googled again for another tool. well i found two other tools. here they are

HP Usb Drive Format Tool

HDD Low Level Format Tool

i tried the same and both of them did not work, the same media message , i started googling again and finally i read about it in a forum , that some times the power outage or extra power simply burns the usb chip which is usually what the media is located on. but one thing is still bugging me if the chip has burnt why the window is still detecting it and showing it as a removable drive. could some body please explain that to me. i have also tried the manufacturer's tool too.