For some reason defender identifies all software from that site as malware. With the windows defender turned off and it turned out to be just perfect to reprogram the USB flash drive without causing any issues or infecting the system with any virus/ransomware etc. So I used a separate machine to download the chipsbank software from I got the following info with ChipGenius.ĭescription: USB Mass Storage Device(ChipsBnk Flash Disk)įlash ID code: 2CA40832A100 - Micron - 1CE/Single Channel -> Total Capacity = 32GB With regards to the flash drive prior to this failure, I used it probably around 10 to 15 times to move and or copy files on windows as well as mac and Linux and it was working perfectly fine and was very fast so it wasn't showing any faults or errors beforehand. I don't know if it can be fixed by some software that can rebuild partition?Īnd yes, fortunately the seller has agreed to send me a replacement one so hopefully I will receive one that will not die on me as well but having said that even though I have used Rufus countless number of times in the past to create bootable drives, I will be using an external hard drive where ever possible from now on. I don't know if this was caused by the software or faulty flash drive. It appears that the error occurred when Rufus was trying to convert MBR partition on the flash drive to GPT. It is detected by windows explorer as well as diskpart etc but has no partition. Please have a look at that and do not ask me to try the suggestions given there as I have tried all of those and nothing has worked. USB totally damaged after used with Rufus

So this is almost identical situation to the post below.

Chipsbank format tool