Now you must clean the drive by giving the 'clean' command. Select the troubled USB flash drive by typing the command: 'select disk (insert the drive number here without brackets)' WARNING: Don't continue to step 4 unless you are 100% sure that you have the right drive or you will clean the wrong drive! In my case it's a 32GB flash drive, so mine is the 29GB drive listed as 'Disk 8' Locate you USB flash drive by looking at the size of the drive in the list, make sure you remember the Disk number. This will list all the Hard drives and USB flash drives connected to the computer. Once you opened diskpart you will need to type in the following command: 'list disk' Type 'diskpart' in the windows search bar and open the program, preferably by right-clicking and selecting 'Run as administrator'.

WARNING: You will lose all data on the USB flash drive!

This tutorial will fix the problem by formatting it using diskpart. The USB flash drive did show up on the windows 7 Disk Management but it was grayed out and he could not format it via the Disk Management. Something went wrong when he formatted it with a format program to turn the flash drive into a linux live drive.Īs a result of this his USB flash drive no longer showed up in the 'computer' folder. How to: format USB flash drive not showing up on computerĪ member had a problem with one of his USB flash drives.