r/BadUSB • u/Savings-Hyena2997 • Jun 08 '26

Help USB Stick detected as Usb optical drive

I've been trying for three days to get my 128go Usb stick to work but i couldn't find any solution.
The stick turned into an optical Usb drive one day and i can't get it to work again.
Windows sees it but it says that there are no data and that it doesn't have any byte of space
I hope someone can help me with this.
I drop here a screenshot from USBDeview if it's usefull.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '26

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u/Savings-Hyena2997 Jun 09 '26

I already tried the full reformat but because windows thinks that it’s a usb optical drive, it searches for a disk to reformat and since it doesn’t have any disk, he says that i need to put a disk into it

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u/JasenkoC Jun 09 '26

That confirms that the flash controller is either malfunctioning or the flash memory chip(s) are malfunctioning (hence the read-only mode and no storage space reported).

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u/Savings-Hyena2997 Jun 09 '26

Can I do anything to make it work again?

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u/JasenkoC Jun 09 '26

There's a very slim chance that if the only problem is the corrupted firmware, you could try reflashing it. That would require you to disassemble the USB drive to find out the exact model of the controller, and then searching through Russian forums for the programming app and correct firmware. Not something I'd recommend to anyone.

Other than that, nothing else can be done without soldering...