So I inturrupted a dd for windows operation, and now my usb stick won't work. I saw this post but, it's solution doesn't work for me, as i don't have a chromebook. Attempts to format the drive just say "The system cannot find the file specified." as seen here:
If Windows disk management MMC snapin fails, you can use the command line tool diskpart
diskpart
list disk to list all available disks and use select disk NUMBER to select the USB flash drive
and now run clean to clean the drive.
Now run Disk Management, create a new Volume on the flash drive.
If above not work - like in my case, you can have wrong or badly builded partition format:
Try to convert MBR partition to GPT. I've done it in MiniTool Partition Wizard app.
You can easly convert it right clicking and choosing coresponding option:
After that it should work even without formating (I could access files prevously saved on that drive)
Cleaning in DISKPART does not always work (it didn't for me). See Recovering a Partially Formatted USB Thumb Drive for some good answers for USB sticks that are proving difficult to recover.
