Survival Kit destroys USB Flash Memory Stick!
I’ve tried to generate a bootable HW backup with True Imagae 2019 on my brand new ScanDisk 256 GB Stick (EUR 60!). Acronis failed to do so an now I can no longer find/see the stick in the Win10 explorer nor with Acronis TI2019 Desktop App . It seems that Acronis destroyed my stick!? How do I repair the stick?
Martin
Martin, have you tried to use Windows Disk Management yet? After running the Survival Kit you should have a 2GB partition and a second data partition. Can you assign a letter to the second partition?
And if you are running Steve's command, be sure to select the right disk on the third line.
Not a lot of info to go on for what was done. Are you saying the USB is not viewable anywhere in Windows, not even in disk management? It's possible that Windows just doesn't have an assigned drive letter to any of the partitions on the USB drive for some reason. Use disk management (or as Steve suggested, the free version of Minitool Partition Wizard is really great) and see if shows the partitions, and if so, make sure a volume letter is assigned. If not, then assign a letter of your choice to each partition on the USB drive. A screen shot would be helpful to verify what your USB looks like at present before doing anything if you're not sure.
control panel (view small icons) >> Administrative tools >> computer management >> expand Storage / Disk Management.
Locate the USB drive and screenshot it. If the partitions are there, but there is no volume letter assigned, then select the partition and right-click >> change drive letter and paths and assign it a letter. It would now show up in Windows file explorer.
I ran into something that sounds a lot like this problem when using USB sticks formatted (by the manufacturer) in an odd way. The devices originally would work fine in Windows but cannot be made bootable. The MVP WinPE Builder fails to write to the drive but does not modify it. The ATI Rescue Media Builder (and I assume, the Survival Kit builder), on the other hand modify the device and leave it unusable to Windows. (Windows will map a device leter to the device, but if you try to access that letter Windows will ask that you insert a device.)
Steve's DiskPart recommendation will fix the device. So will using a 3rd party utility such as RMPrepUSB (and probably many others).
(sorry for the late repsonse, was on a weekend trip)
I went through he procedure of Steve. Since I did not see "Disk 1" but just 0, 2 and 3 (see attached png) i was a bit cautious and did not move on. There is just the SSD (256 GB) of my notebook, a a small flashdrive of my old HP docking station (120 MB) and the destroyed ScanDisk flashdrive USB Type C (256 GB) connected to my Notebook. Since I do not know which drive is my SSD and which the USB C I stopped the brute force formatting 😉 ! Which drive is the USB Type C 256 GB flashdrive 0 or 2?
Martin, just looking at your screen images, I would guess that disk 2 is your 256GB USB drive.
On my own computer which has a 128GB M.2 SSD plus a 1TB HDD internal drives, and with my own 2TB USB HDD connected, I see the following using diskpart.
PS D:\> diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: LAPTOP-9OP3KKF0 DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 119 GB 6144 KB * Disk 1 Online 931 GB 0 B * Disk 2 Online 1863 GB 0 B DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 C Windows NTFS Partition 118 GB Healthy Boot Volume 1 Windows RE NTFS Partition 980 MB Healthy Volume 2 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 260 MB Healthy System Volume 3 D DATA NTFS Partition 465 GB Healthy Volume 4 E Backup NTFS Partition 465 GB Healthy Volume 5 F ESD-USB FAT32 Partition 32 GB Healthy Volume 6 S Seagate2TB NTFS Partition 1831 GB Healthy DISKPART>
Having disks of different sizes obviously makes identification much easier, plus I know that the volumes shown for 0-4 are all on the internal drives, thus 5 & 6 are on my external USB drive where 5 (F:) is my boot partition and 6 (S:) my storage one.
One easy way to check here, disconnect your USB drive and repeat the diskpart checks to compare with what is then shown / what is missing?
Removing the external and running diskpart and then attaching and running it again should help confirm as Steve mentioned.
Also, whatever is listed in Windows Disk Management should match in diskpart too for the disk ID.
