❗ Your USB shows “No Media” in Disk Management
This means Windows can detect the USB controller, but the storage chip inside the flash drive is either unreadable or dead.
✔️ This is NOT a software problem
✔️ This is NOT a partition or drive-letter problem
❗ This is a hardware failure inside the USB.
🔍 What “No Media” means (very important)
When Disk Management shows:
Disk 2 — Removable (G:) — No Media
It means:
The USB controller is alive.
But the actual storage memory is not responding.
Windows sees 0 MB capacity.
No partition can be created.
No CMD command (chkdsk, attrib, format) will work.
No data recovery software will detect it.
✔ This usually means the USB flash memory chip is damaged.
❗ Can you fix it?
➡️ If “No Media” appears, you CANNOT recover data using normal software.
The only ways are:
✔ Possible Fixes (if lucky)
Try these simple checks:
- Try another USB port
Use USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports.
- Try on another computer
Sometimes the controller initialises on a different PC.
- Use Linux live boot (rare chance)
Linux sometimes reads broken USBs slightly better.
❗ If all devices show “No Media” → The USB is dead
At this point:
You cannot format it.
You cannot open the file.s
You cannot recover data.
Diskpart will also show 0 bytes.s
The USB must be replaced.
🧊 Advanced Recovery (Only if data is very important)
Only professional data recovery labs can extract data by physically removing the chip.
But this is:
Expensive
Slow
Only for very important data
⭐ Final Answer
Your USB cannot open because:
👉 The USB flash memory is dead (“No Media”) — not repairable by Windows.
You must replace the USB.