Windows 10: I formatted a thumb drive in Tablo now it does not show up as a drive in my computer. How...

I formatted a thumb drive in Tablo by mistake as I thought it would work, now it does not show up as a drive in my computer. How do I make it show up in my computer again and become useable for my computer. When I place it in the drive it makes the noise like windows accepted it. It shows up in Device Manager under Disk Drives. It also shows up in Disk Management. I want to add the NTFS file system back to the drive.

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Can a thumb drive be disabled by malware?

There are quite a few possibilities to what happened to your thumb drive:

1. It might be a simple issue where the partition got corrupted: In this case you can go to Computer Management > Disk Management> and check out what partition your thumb drive currently has. If it currently is in RAW format or is just unallocated, I suggest you unallocate the entire drive and make a new partition. It's possible that you can recover upto 99% of your files with a tool like EaseUS DataRecovery Wizard Pro.
   
2. The malware corrupted your thumb drive's firmware: The malware that your thumb drive may have encountered may be similar to something like BadUSB. It may or may not have modified your drive's firmware to transmit malware, but in any case your thumb drive's pretty dead, and there's not much you can do about it.
   

 

How do I format a 2 TB thumb drive?

My printer does not recognize my 2 TB thumb drive when I put it into my printer to create a pdf or jpeg from a scan. Any suggestions on what the formatting specs should be when I re-format the drive with Windows 10?

The Drive tools/Manager/Format specs in my Windows 10 are for:

Capacity showing as 1.90 TB

File System (3 choices are exFat (default), NTFS, and 512KB)

Allocation Unit size ( has many choices)

I usually check "Quick format" box.

Thanks.

 

Kingston thumb drive format

How do I format a usb thumb drive for music? Kingston Data Traveler, Windows 10