6 Solutions To USB Flash Drive Showing 0 Bytes in Windows 10, 8, 7

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“Hi, all. Yesterday i connected my USB flash drive to the

computer and tried to open it in the Windows Explorer,
and it failed every time along with a message which
says ‘You need to format it before use it’, but I cannot
format it since all important files are inside. And i found
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will make things much worse if users have stored a
large number of private or important files to the drive.
In order to fix such issues, we should first figure out
why that happens. Main reasons include:
Remove the USB flash drive in an improper way or

during the process of transferring data.
Any partition on this hard drive gets corrupted.
The USB drive is infected by some virus, or the MBR
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USB flash drive has some bad sectors.
A sudden or unexpected power failure occurs when System/Disk Clone

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After figuring out what leads to this issue, now we Windows 10/8/7?
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solutions. Before proceeding, it is better to reinstall this
USB: connect it to computer, right-click “My Computer”
-->"Manage" -->"Device Manager"--> "Manage"-->
"USB Controller" -->"USB Mass Storage" --
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>"Uninstalled", and then remove the USB and re-insert
it into the USB port on the computer.
If lucky enough, the 0 byte USB might be back to
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Solution 1. Unplug extra USB drives
Solution 2. Check whether the data are hidden
Solution 3. Fix file system errors
Solution 4. Repair bad sectors on USB drive Free Partition Manager
Solution 5. Fix the damaged MBR

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Solution 6. Format the 0 byte USB

Solution 1. Unplug extra USB drives
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USB cable is out of service, replace it with a good one
so as to ensure the successful usage.
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Solution 2. Check whether the data
are hidden
If the data are set to be in hidden mode, then the USB Windows 10/8/7?
may show 0 bytes, so we need to check whether there Easy USB RAW File System Repair Solutions
are some hidden data or not. Without Losing Data
Step 1. Press Windows+R to open Run, and type “cmd”
and press Enter. Right-click the Command Prompt icon Still Need Help?
and select "Run as administrator".

Step 2. Input "attrib –h –r –s /s /d g:\*.*" command
and press Enter (replace g: with the drive letter of your
USB drive) and press Enter. Search ...
After this, you can check your USB flash drive to see
whether there are some hidden files or not.
Solution 3. Fix file system errors

If your USB drive shows 0 bytes due to some file
system errors, you can fix them within the below steps.

Step 1. Open "Windows Explorer". Right-click on the
USB drive, and then select "Properties" from the given

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Step 3. A new window will pop out, tick both options:
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Step 4. It will scan the entire USB disk for errors, fix Download Now
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use CHKDSK.exe tool in the Command Prompt window. Windows 10/8/7?

Step 1. Open Command Prompt Windows as you do in Without Losing Data
solution 2.
Step 2. Input the command (chkdsk g: /f /r /x) and hit Still Need Help?
on “Enter” to check and repair disk errors.
“g”: stands for the drive letter of the partition you Search ...
need to check.
“f”: tells CHKDSK to fix any errors it finds.
“r”: tells it to locate the bad sectors on the drive
and recover readable information.
“x”: forces the drive to dismount before the process
starts.

Solution 5. Fix the damaged MBR
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Step 2. In its main interface, right-click the USB drive
and choose “Rebuild MBR”.
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Step 3. In the dialogue box, choose a proper MBR type
for your OS.
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Solution 6. Format the 0 bytes USB

drive
If all methods do not take visible effects for the USB
drive showing 0 bytes issue, directly formatting it will
be the last resort. However, to avoid data loss caused
by formatting operation, you can first recover them via
data recovery software and move them to another safe Free Partition Manager
location.
Generally, you can format it in Windows File Explorer System/Disk Clone

successfully. However, sometimes it will fail and pop out Convert MBR/GPT Disk
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format”. Thus, you can turn to AOMEI Partition
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Step 1. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant. Right-click the 0
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Step 3. Back to the main interface, click “Apply” to Windows 10/8/7?
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To Emily, my USB has the same problem as Download Now
you. It asks me to format it, and I do it,
beause my files in it hardly important.
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