Usb data format - Kingston (DTIU3/2GB) 2 GB USB Hard Drive

It's possible that either the volume partition has been corrupt.
in which there are data recovery tools that can help, or your drive was formatted on a different os that your machine and is not recognizable. Windows always offers to format a usb when it dosnt recognize the formatting. Just skip that part and run the data recovery tool. Keep in mind, although usb drives are handy, with all flash technology, there's little notice if any , when the drive begins to fail. So always keep a cloned usb stick or alternate data storage when using flash.

It should be the file system problem. Usually a usb drive should be formatted to FAT initially instead of NTFS. Recommend you try the USB on another computer and see if the problem still occurs. If yes, then try format it from Disk Management of your computer. If you can't format, use TestDisk (also a command line tool) to fix the file system error. You can also see from this blog post to learn more about the possible reasons or solution. Regards

First of all, you'd better recover all your files on usb. You can download a data recovery program, recommended asoftech data recovery as it helped me before. You can read more info about data recovery from
http://www.asoftech.com/adr/

After you get back all your files, you can try to format the usb. First check whether the usb is locked, and then you can try a low level format.

All your data will be erased & used space of your pen drive will restore to 0 bytes.

you can try format recovery software like asoftech data recovery. You can see
Recover formatted files
It tells the steps how to perform format recovery.

If above does not work, you may have to format the usb drive (use quick format), and then use above mentioned software to scan again the usb drive and recover your files.

Try this,
Format your Flash Drive after backing up your data using this tool,

http://hddguru.com/download/software/HDDGURU-Low-Level-Format-Tool/LLFsetup.2.36.1181.exe

This will format the drive in RAW file system. After doing format using this tool, perform a general format in windows by going to disc management. In disc management, select FAT or FAT32 as file system based on the capacity of your flash drive. IF it is upto 2 GB format using FAT and if more than that format using FAT32.
Please let me know if you need further help.
Thanks

try formating it with other computer...

Deleting or formatting won't make the data in USB drive erased permanently.


Those deleted data is still stored on the USB drive , it's just invisible or inaccessible. Only the FAT or NFTS table is erased (the information about where those data were saved), but the real data are still intact there in sectors of the hard drive.


So as long as those data are not overwritten by new data, it's highly possible to recover them. And the MOST Effective way is to rely on some format recovery programs.


Try this flash drive recovery program named asoftech data recovery, which can recover data after deeply scanning your USB drive to look for lost data you accidentally deleted or formatted.


http://www.asoftech.com/adr/

1). Do not format this hard drive before you've recovered all your stored data back. In your case, the formatting process may erase everything on your drive and make your data gone permanently.
2). Never save anything new on this drive in case that any new file would rewrite your original data.
3). Plunge this drive to your computer and download a RAW drive data recovery freeware to get back all your lost data back:
http://www.freeware-fix.blogspot.com/2013/02/raw-hard-drive-recovery.html
This hard drive has helped many people around me restore their inaccessible data back from a RAW drive or memory card. It can also work perfectly on your drive.
Read more detailed information of this freeware here:
http://blog4mark.blogspot.com/2012/10/help-external-drive-became-raw.html
4). Save and back up all your restored data on another drive in case of data recovery failure.
5). Format this drive to see whether it is fixable.