Buffalo Hard Drive Usb Driver' title='Buffalo Hard Drive Usb Driver' />Fixed USB drive unusable, unformattable, and reporting 0 bytes capacity. I completely hosed a few San. Disk Cruzer Micro USB 2. GB Flash Drives at work when I deleted the original contents of the drives, installed the Cruzer. Pro software that had shipped with some older Cruzer Professional drives, and then used the Cruzer. Pro application to password protect the drives. This process rendered the drives completely unusable and unable to be formatted. DetJ-aL.jpg' alt='Buffalo Hard Drive Usb Driver' title='Buffalo Hard Drive Usb Driver' />USB 3. Universal Serial Bus USB standard for interfacing computers and electronic devices. Among other improvements, USB 3. DriverTuner was created to save your time resolving driver problems by providing you with a single, automatic tool. Xx8AAOSwepJXbjEA/s-l500.jpg' alt='Buffalo Hard Drive Usb Driver' title='Buffalo Hard Drive Usb Driver' />The problems. Clicking the drive letter in Windows Explorer returns the following error message Please insert a disk into drive X. Attempting to format the drive returns the warning There is no disk in drive X. Max Payne 3 For Pc Only 5 Mb on this page. Insert a disk, and then try again. This is what the drives looked like once Id thoroughly broken them. San. Disk U3 Cruzer Micro USB Device Properties. The drive properties show Type Removable Disk. Hi everyone. First of all, I know there are a lot of threads on this but I checked loads of them and none of them seem to have a solution. The drive is called Buffalo. Compare read and write speed of USB Flash drives. Fixed USB drive unusable, unformattable, and reporting 0 bytes capacity JayK74u 10 October 2009 at 757 pm. Wow thank you it works I. Portable hard drives from Ebuyer. What is a portable hard drive A portable hard drive is a device that is connected to a computer by USB and is used to store data. File system Unknown. Used space 0 bytes. Free space 0 bytes. Capacity 0 bytes. The Volumes tab shows Type Removable. Status No Media. Partition style Not Applicable. Capacity 0 MBUnallocated space 0 MBReserved space 0 MBOpening the Disk Management component of the Computer Management console shows that the drive is connected, but there is no unallocated space to partition or format. Other things about the disk look normal. It shows up in the Device Manager as working correctly, without any warnings, for example. I Googled around and found that many, many people were running into this problem where the drive starts reporting 0 bytes capacity and can not be formatted. Of the dozens of pages that I read, no one found a fix for the problem. The most common solution offered was to return the drive to the manufacturer for replacement. Well, I wasnt going to publicize my mistake and return the drives, I was going to repair them. Software that didnt help. Feel free to skip this part if youre not interested in reading about the many dead ends I explored. I knew of one nifty program that had helped me out a few times before, so I tried running the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool v. There is no media in the specified device. Someone suggested using this thing called Apacer Repair v. I tried that, but the software only reported USB Flash Disk not found when I ran it. Someone else recommended Free. Commander, but that failed to open the drive, too. I tried the free trial of the utility from http www. Windows XP that the device contained a disk with 0 bytes capacity. Maybe the full version could have done more, but I put that on the back burner. A number of people suggested attacking it with partitioning software, which I wasnt looking forward to doing, but was willing to try. Another last resort was going to be using the Windows XP Recovery Consoles fixboot and fixmbr commands, which got me out of a pinch when I screwed up a partition. What I should have tried to begin with. Then I had an idea. Buffalo Hard Drive Usb Driver' title='Buffalo Hard Drive Usb Driver' />I had a clean drive that had escaped my earlier bungling. I plugged it in, copied the contents to my desktop and tried to run the U3 Launch. Pad software. Nothing happened, so I started looking more closely at the files. HEY, i m having a difrent problem. One of the files was called San. Disk. Format. Extension. Now I just needed to figure out how to run the San. Disk installer to reformat the drive. I tried all of the. Just as I was running out of options, I opened the autorun. URLhttp u. 3. Pelican. BFG. The fix. So, with nothing to lose, I pasted http u. Pelican. BFG into Internet Explorer, thinking that it would at least get me some new files that might allow me to reformat the drive. I followed a few prompts and lo, the U3 Launchpad Installer software launched and restored the drive to its factory settings of 2 GB capacity formatted as FAT. It even replaced the original U3 files, making it truly good as new. Im astonished that this information isnt more widely available, particularly on the San. Disk support site and forums, as this 0 capacity problem seems to affect a good number of drives and there are many threads where this issue remains unresolved. Note that the page at http u. Pelican. BFG requires you to install an Active. X component, so you must use Internet Explorer. Otherwise, you can download the latest version of the U3 Launchpad Installer executable from the Sandisk KB. Of course, if youre not using a San. Disk drive, its rather unlikely that this software will fix your drive, but maybe your devices manufacturer has something similar. There are also a number of good ideas in the comments below, so definitely read through them for more options. If youre trying to restore the drives contents or recover files, the all of the methods described on this page will format erase the drive and are not for you.