How To Repair Corrupted Pen Drive

Sometimes Pen Drive gets corrupted. It doesn't show anything just a blank drive or sometimes it shows less space than its original capacity. If you have a corrupted pen drive like that don't worry follow the simple steps below and repair it.

How to fix corrupted pen drive?

Repair corrupted pen drive by formatting it.

1. Connect your pen drive to the computer.
2. Right-click on This PC/My Computer and click on Manage.
3. Computer Management windows will pop up at the left side select Disk Management. You will see your connected pen drive at the bottom of the disk management.
4. Right-click on the pen drive and select Format. Don't change any setting click on Ok Button. It will erase all data from your pen drive.

Fix corrupted pen drive by Reinstall the drivers.

1. Right-click on This PC/My Computer and click on Manage.
2. This time select Device Manager.
3. Under the Disk Drive section, you will find your pen drive.
4. right-click on that and click on Uninstall. It will uninstall all the drivers of your pen drive.
5. Unplug it and restart your computer and connect it.

Repair corrupted pen drive Using CMD.

1. Connect Corrupted Pen Drive to your computer.
2. Right-click on the Start button and click on the command prompt (admin).
3. Type diskpart and press Enter. (This can take some time.)
4. Type list disk and press Enter. it will show the name and number of disks on your computer.
5. type select disk (number of your Pen drive) press Enter. (Example: select disk 1)
6. type clean and press Enter. It will delete all data from your pen drive.
7. On Desktop right click on This PC/My Computer and click on Manage.
8. Select Disk Management. you will find your Pen drive at the bottom.
9. it will show unallocated space. Right-click on that and select the new simple volume and follow the wizard. basically, you don't need to change anything there click next-next and finish it.

Hopefully one of these methods will help you to fix a corrupted pen drive.