Unusable "Geek Squad" Flash drive

Solution 1:

I managed to format a belligerent partition on a friend's flash drive. Normal methods would not work because as far as the (Windows) OS knew, it was an unwritable CDFS CD-ROM partition:

These tools allowed me to remove the CDFS partition:

1. USBDeview to see flash vendor ID, this can be found http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip
2. If your flash is SMI chip, you need SMI UFD utility, which can be found http://ftp.usboffice.kr/files/SMI_UFD_Utility.zip
3. If your flash is USBEST chip, you need UCDexec.exe, which is http://ftp.usboffice.kr/files/UCDExec.exe

Here is little forum about it http://blog.usboffice.kr/?p=146

Solution 2:

That's what you get for buying anything associated with The Geek Squad. My advice is to return it for a new one or a refund.

If you bought a new car and it had problems, would you try to fix it yourself or would you take it back to the dealer?