Somehow my USB flash drive is broken. When I plug it into my Windows 7 PC it appears in Windows Explorer, but I cannot format/access it; I get the "insert disk" message every time I try to access/format the drive.
What can I do to get it working again?
Since you didn't provide any details about the drive it's hard to provide any detailed steps to help you. The fallback thing to do is try it on a different machine - Windows and something else, too. Sometimes Mac or Linux machines might be able to see it.
If they don't recognize it, you're probably out of luck. There may be a specific utility for your flash drive that might help.
In my experience though, a dead USB stick is dead. It's not even worth the shipping to RMA it unless it's a very pricey model.
