I have 3 USB flash drives (newly purchased, original) which were used to create bootable drives to install Zorin OS on a PC. The flashing failed for some reason, and now I have 3 USB flash drives which look like this in Disk Management -

[![Screenshot.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5gPfr.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5gPfr.png)

In order to get my drives back to normal, after watching a bunch of videos/reading articles, I have tried the below so far -

* First tried creating a simple volume, with default settings in the wizard; then I got a popup saying **"Volume was created but not formatted"**, and then it would try to run format, and I received **"the system cannot find the specified file type"**.
	+ Went to diskpart, tried `list disk` > `select disk #` > `clean`/`clean all`; then it would say **"Diskpart error, access denied. Check system logs."** It would delete the created volume in the last step, but showed the access denied error. Also this is what was recorded in system logs - `Cannot zero sectors on disk \\?\PhysicalDrive2. Error code: 5@0101000F`.
	+ Then started command prompt as administrator, still the exact same error. Using admin cmd should solve the access denied error right? Why is this happening?
* My drives just won't format, tried from both manual format (from This PC and disk management) and diskpart format.
* On This PC, when I try to open any of the drives it says **"Please insert a disk in E:"** (for eg.)

All of the above has been tried on 2 separate PCs, same error on both, even if cmd is in admin mode. What should I do?

I just want to convert my drives back to normal, so I can use them to transfer data around like before.

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**UPDATE**: When I select a drive like this:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/p0qPb.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/p0qPb.png)

This is what I see:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/G5y1s.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/G5y1s.png)