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How to Repair a USB Flash Drive in Windows 10 To completely repair your flash drive on windows please do the following steps, which will make sure that you keep intact data and also return functionality of device.
How To Fix A Flash Drive
Access the Drive:
USB flash drive connected to your computer.
Go to My Computer / This PC and find the removable disk icon.
Check Drive Properties:
Right-click on the icon of removable disk, then click “Properties.“
Navigate to the “Tools” tab.
Rebuild and Scan:
If available, click “Rebuild”.
Start the scan so that windows can identify all corrupted files and recover them.
Advanced Repair Using Command Prompt:
Even after following the above steps if your problem still persists, then open up Command Prompt as Administrator.
Perform chkdsk X: /f /r (note X is the drive letter) to check file system errors or a bad sector recovery.
Final Steps:
Right-click on the USB drive and click ‘Eject’ when scan is finished.
Not only this, but the recovery technique also optimizes your flash drive and prepares it again for storage purposes.
