usb drive problem

[gs]

there had been all sorts of problems on an USB drive so I thought
recreating the partition would help. I got trouble with creating partition
with formatting. I tried again from diskmgmt.msc to format again, no luck,
tired quick format, no luck

So I dropped and re-created the partition again and try to format quick
under dos prompt. the result is as follows

H:\>format /q x: /fs:ntfs /a:512 /v:isgArch0
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is NTFS.

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE X: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
QuickFormatting 99998M
The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable.
Reading second NTFS boot sector instead.
All NTFS boot sectors are unreadable. Cannot continue.

What Can I do? The other partition on the USB drive seems to be ok

 

[Patrick Keenan]

there had been all sorts of problems on an USB drive so I thought
recreating the partition would help. I got trouble with creating partition
with formatting. I tried again from diskmgmt.msc to format again, no luck,
tired quick format, no luck

So I dropped and re-created the partition again and try to format quick
under dos prompt. the result is as follows

H:\>format /q x: /fs:ntfs /a:512 /v:isgArch0
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is NTFS.

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE X: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
QuickFormatting 99998M
The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable.
Reading second NTFS boot sector instead.
All NTFS boot sectors are unreadable. Cannot continue.

What Can I do? The other partition on the USB drive seems to be ok

Sounds to me like the drive is failing. This can happen. I'd suggest not
trusting it, and instead replacing it. Drives are pretty cheap these days.

HTH
-pk

 

[gs]

I thought so but why do I need boot sectors on USB drive? I have no
intention to boot from there