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Acronis DriveCleanser on USB Flash Drive

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I ran the Acronis DriveCleanser on two different USB flash drives. I assumed this would wipe them clean so I could format for future use. Now, MS Windows does not recognize the flash drives anymore. Is there a way I can format them and re-use?

I went back and re-read the directions to use the DriveCleanser application. There is an optional step to format disk after cleansing data. The USB flash drives did not have this option, so I think the flash drives are worthless now. Anyone know way to re-format USB flash drives after running the DriveCleanser on them?

The USB flash drive are recognized by Windows, but the Windows format tool cannot format them.

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Paul, welcome to these public User Forums.

If the USB flash drives are seen by Windows then you could try the following approach.

Open an Administrator Command prompt windows.   (Search for CMD then right-click and select to Run as Administrator).

In that command window: (enter the following commands)

diskpart
list disk   (to identify USB drive, i.e. 1)
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign
exit

Note: please ensure that you select the correct USB flash drive disk when using diskpart as it does not ask for any confirmation and will wipe the selected disk when the clean command is used!

The alternative method is to use a partition manager application such as the free MiniTool Partition Wizard which can do this for you in a safer environment.