Fixing a currupt (or corrupted? ) USB drive

I open (in Windows) the disk management tool, and I keep getting this message when trying to format the USB drive:

usb drive windows cannot format the volume because the volume is offline

this video explain how to "brutally fix" the USB drive:




run diskpart in admin mode

list disk

select disk N (N depends on your system)

list partition

select partition M (M depends on your system)

delete partition override


All this happened because I was preparing a USB drive to boot Centos 7 as per https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey and using the https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ win32diskimager ... apparently I have stopped it while it was writing, and this corrupted the USB disk.... scary...




Here a useful list of commands.... priceless.... https://commandwindows.com/diskpart.htm much better than the Disk Management UI tool

VMware Fedora image doesn't connect to USB controller

VMware USB Arbitration Service service fails to start on Windows 7 with an error:

Detected unrecognized USB driver (\Driver\usbfilter).


The solution is here:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/241662

"Try right clicking on one of the USB hubs and looking at the driver details. If usbfilter.sys is listed then open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000} and delete the UpperFilter, usbfilter pair.
I rebooted and it works great now. "


I have wasted a couple of hours for this "trick".... it's working now....

still, I am downloading a ready-made fedora 14 vmware image from linuxtracker...

or rather, the version 13 from here http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ since the 14 apparently doesn't support VMware Tools (?).