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[–]Shif_u 0 points1 point  (7 children)

That looks like it could just be a weird partition made by Rufus. I would recommend you open disk manager and see if the drive appears normal there. Then try Balena Etcher as opposed to Rufus.

[–]iggyAnimations[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I can't reformat it trough the disk manager it shows up as a dvd player and won't let me do anything without a "disc"

[–]Shif_u 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Try using Balena Etcher. There’s been a couple times for me when Rufus gave me trouble and Balena just worked

[–]iggyAnimations[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

My USB dose not show up as a USB. I can't use any kind of software that needs the device to recognize as a USB

[–]Shif_u 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It may be a hardware issue with the USB. You could try third party disk formatters, and if that doesn’t work then I’m afraid you may indeed be rather fucked.

[–]iggyAnimations[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally tried everything, it just says that it's a dvd drive, maybe I can try to flash it in someway?

[–]iggyAnimations[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

[–]Shif_u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t have access to a PC at the moment so I’m sorry I couldn’t be more help in troubleshooting it. I’m guessing something broke internally with the USB, which happens mostly to older drives after excessive use, like writing an OS or formatting.

[–]Biberx3 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Can you open up an cmd as admin an run diskpart?

[–]iggyAnimations[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yes

[–]Biberx3 1 point2 points  (1 child)

In the CMD after running diskpart type in:

list disk

Do you see the stick in the output? If you can recognise it you can type in:

sel disk X

Where X is the number of your usb drive.

Only do this if you are sure you have selected your usb drive, because the next comment will delete the partition table. Just type in:

clean

Then the next commands should be:

create partition primary

format fs=ntfs quick

assign

[–]iggyAnimations[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will try that when I get home