Am I being a numpty?

[QuietOne]

So my 64GB USB drive arrived so I decided to use the recovery image backup tool. When I select to do it via USB it just asks to insert a USB stick and click next.

The drive is plugged in but next is grayed out. Windows detects the drive and I can view what's in it etc but I can't go any further in that program. Tried it in USB3 and USB2 ports to no avail.

 

[SeekaX]

So my 64GB USB drive arrived so I decided to use the recovery image backup tool. When I select to do it via USB it just asks to insert a USB stick and click next.

The drive is plugged in but next is grayed out. Windows detects the drive and I can view what's in it etc but I can't go any further in that program. Tried it in USB3 and USB2 ports to no avail.

Which format did you use? FAT32 or NTFS?

 

[QuietOne]

Was originally FAT32, that didn't work then formatted it as NTFS and that didn't work either. One of the guys here mentioned MSI has their own one but I have yet to find it on my laptop.

 

[RamboOC]

So my 64GB USB drive arrived so I decided to use the recovery image backup tool. When I select to do it via USB it just asks to insert a USB stick and click next.

The drive is plugged in but next is grayed out. Windows detects the drive and I can view what's in it etc but I can't go any further in that program. Tried it in USB3 and USB2 ports to no avail.

I had that happen to my sandisk usb drive after i did the same thing. I tried a lot of stufff like gparted, low level partitioning under linux enviroment, hp download tool and using the windows partition manager. nothing has worked thats why i don't use sandisk usb drives anymore. What is the brand of your usb drive?

 

[tinytomlogan]

Yes. that is all.

 

[RamboOC]

what partitions/unlocated space can you see for your usb drive under partition manager in windows?

 

[QuietOne]

Yes. that is all.

I'm sure you're not the only one who agrees.

what partitions/unlocated space can you see for your usb drive under partition manager in windows?

It's showing as 1 partition with no unallocated space and formatted as NTFS. The drive is a Corsair Voyager Go.

 

[YouWhat]

I have found with the sandisk USB drives I have had, and still got lying about, that 8GB sticks register as usb sticks, 16GB or higher tend to get recognised as drives instead.

Not sure if this is just a sandisk issue, or whether others are the same as I only got 1 stick over 8GB as I never had any real use for any bigger, and that 16GB was only cus I needed new 1 and got it same price as an 8GB