Флешка определяется как cd rom как исправить

When your flash drive shows as a CD drive on your computer, relax. And we have fixes for you. Follow the provided methods below, you will make your flash drive recognized as a removable drive on a computer again:

My boyfriend downloaded all series of Games of Thrones last night on my USB flash drive so that I can watch offline. Just now I inserted the drive in my computer, no problem in the first place because Windows 10 recognized it, only I found that flash drive shows up as CD/DVD Rom instead of a usual removable disk drive. Now I can’t open USB on Windows 10 thanks to this incorrect recognition.”

Flash drive showing up as CD drive issue

We use all kinds of external storage disks so frequently, especially the removable ones like USB flash drives that are tiny, portable and compatible to run across multiple OS based computers. In general, when you insert the USB flash drive in its USB port, soon the computer will detect it, recognize it as removable with a drive letter assigned to it.

But sometimes you are not in luck. Due to some internal drive issues, Windows would read a removable disk as an empty optical disk drive (CD-ROM) by wrong. As a result, when you try to open such a drive, an error message pops up saying “There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive X:” This error prevents you from accessing present data on the drive. In this case, what should you do to rectify the problem? If the flash drive contains data that you cannot afford to lose, first of all, recover data. And then restore it to normal use as suggested, it follows behind the data recovery part.

First, recover data from inaccessible USB flash drive

To recover data from an inaccessible flash drive or external drive, you must choose a reliable data recovery software that is safe and clean, such as EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. It has been serving in the market for over 10 years, and it’s capable of retrieving all types of files from a storage drive that’s connected to the system. No matter the data is lost after the disk (partition) is formatted, re-formatted or deleted. 

Now download EaseUS EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard on your computer, and follow the video guide to export all important data on the flash drive that shows wrong disk attribute. It helps in the way of USB flash drive recovery, by scanning all existing and lost data on the drive. Three steps are enough.

Choose the USB flash drive -> Scan -> Preview and recover.

Second, repair the flash drive by reformatting it

After safely retrieving the flash drive data, proceed to repair the USB flash drive that is detected as CD-ROM using the following tools. Disk Management is a built-in Windows tool so you won’t need to download, and the other EaseUS Partition Master requires a download and install. Choose one option you prefer. Both are free to use.

Option 1. Disk Management

Step 1. Press Windows + R keys to bring up the Run box, type diskmgmt.msc and hit Enter.

Step 2. In Windows Disk Management, you can check the current status of the flash drive. If the USB flash drive is with the same problem, right-click on the drive and choose Format…

Step 3. Choose a file system like NTFS, FAT32 and click OK.

Option 2. EaseUS Partition Master Free

Or, you can download EaseUS free partition manager for an easier partition format, which helps in a great way to fix a corrupted sd card, USB flash drive, pen drive, etc.

Step 1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master, right-click the USB flash drive you want to format and choose the Format partition.

Step 2. A mini window pops out, on which you can edit the partition label and choose a file system such as FAT/FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3.

Step 3. Click Apply to confirm to format the flash drive that shows up as CD/DVD Rom.

Предыстория следующая:
Нашлась в хозяйстве флешка, которая определялась как cd-rom.
Попытки форматнуть привели к защите от записи, а последующие попытки снять защиту к тому что флешка стала неким девайсом без памяти, видимо определялся контроллер, который совсем утратил доступ к напаянной памяти.
В результате помогла утилита usbflashinfo и статья
www.usbdev.ru/post-rec-98sn-plus-sa21nmtlc-m0329/
Утилитой usbflashinfo получаем инфу по флешке:
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Volume: G:
Controller: Alcor AU6989SNHL/AU6998SNHL/SC908SN
Possible Memory Chip(s):
Samsung K9ACGD8U0A
Memory Type: TLC
Flash ID: ECDE98CE 74C4
Flash CE: 1
Chip Code: 0xE50B
Chip F/W: DA08
Group: 98
VID: 058F
PID: 6387
Manufacturer: Generic
Product: Mass Storage
Query Vendor ID: Generic
Query Product ID: Flash Disk
Query Product Revision: 8.07
Physical Disk Capacity: 8304721920 Bytes
Windows Disk Capacity: 0 Bytes
Internal Tags: AYWR-SY22
USB Version: 2.00
Declared Power: 200 mA
ContMeas ID: 595A-03-00
Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 x64 Build 7601
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www.antspec.com/usbflashinfo/
Program Version: 9.2.0.627
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Тут видим
Controller: Alcor AU6989SNHL/AU6998SNHL/SC908SN
остается найти под него утилиту прошивальщик.
Перепробовал много разных версий Alcor MP, но решила проблема именно та что указана в статье
AlcorMP_D3eD3_v13.02.01.00
ключевым является возможность работать с D3/eD3 памятью.

Дальше все просто.
Запускает, выбираем флешку, нажимаем start и ждем.

Если вылезает сразу ошибка, значит утилита подобрана неверно и надо искать другую версию.
Так же в статье описано как правильно понять какая именно нужна и описана возможность все таки заставить утилиту работать с флешкой через редактирование абзаца IGNORE в Alcor.ini.
Мне этого делать не пришлось.