Knowing VID and PID we need to find a special utility suitable to restore our flash drive. First of all, go to Device Manager.Ĭhoosing The Necessary Utility to Repair The Drive (Low-level Formatting) You can find VID and PID with the help of special utilities, but it can be done without them as well. Very often, a wrongly chosen utility can “kill” your flash drive. If you are not going to waste your USB drive, do not use utilities which are designed for VID/PID other than yours. These will be different for various controllers! PID – Product ID (product identifier, i.e. VID – vendor ID (manufacturer identifier) To determine the controller model there are special digital and letter values set by parameters of VID and PID. Hence, a simple conclusion – in order to repair a flash drive you need to know exactly the controller model so that you can select the right fixing utility. The matter is that USB drives, even belonging to one model range and made by one manufacturer can have different controllers. It may seem very easy to know the flash drive parameters, especially when the manufacturer and memory size are specified on the drive case. Getting to Know Flash Drive Parameters (Manufacturer, Controller model, Memory size) All actions to be taken are given step by step. The drive manufacturer does not matter, in fact, be it Kingston, Silicon Power, Transced, Data Traveler, A-Data etc. This manual for repairing a flash drive is intended to deal with all sorts of USB drive issues except cases of mechanical damage. Quite often the file system comes to be recognized as RAW, the flash drive cannot be formatted or even accesses… What can be done if that is your problem?

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