Windows 10: USB stick crashes explorer

So, my USB stick isn't working. When I plug it in it starts blinking as it should and it shows up in the explorer. But if I want to access it the explorer just crashes. This also happens with other services like disk management, explorer++ and even stuff like "chkdsk" and "diskpart". Is there some way to reformat the USB stick? I don't care about the files on it but it would be good to have it working again.An idea was also to use a programme that just erases the stick without trying to access the data...Any help appreciated.

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USB Stick crash my explorer.exe

Hi,

We need to isolate the issue that you're having right now.

We suggest that you try to restart Windows Explorer by following the steps below:

• Go and access your Task Manager.
• Under Process Tab, look for Windows Explorer.
• Click Windows Explorer, Then click Restart located on the lower right part of the box.

If your still having the same issue, the next step will be starting your device in
Safe Mode. This process will help us to isolate this case. Please check and review our article

We will wait for your response.

Regards.

 

Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

Chkdsk shows errors after formatting the usb stick

In order to reproduce the problem, I am doing the following steps:

• I put a text file with a single line of text on the usb file.
• I plug in a USB stick to a PC and in the explorer window I go to the usb stick drive.
• I double-click on the text file and open it in notepad.
• I close the notepad.
• I the explorer I go to the one level up and I click the right button on the USB drive and choose the properties->format.
• I formatted the disk with default proposed parameters (FAT32).

The disk is empty after formatting. At the command line prompt window, I type the chkdsk and the letter of the USB drive and I am receiving information that errors have been found (Convert lost chains to files (y/n)?).

I checked it with various usb sticks and different systems (Windows 7, 8, 10) and I got the same results.

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