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Click the or Update button. Do not touch, bump, or remove the USB drive while the firmware flashes.

Unplug the USB drive, wait 10 seconds, and plug it back in. Windows may prompt you to format the drive one final time using its native NTFS or exFAT system. Agree to this prompt to make the drive usable again. Troubleshooting Common URescue Errors urescue format tool top

: It is specifically engineered to work with drives using iTE Tech (formerly USBest) controllers, including models like UT161, UT163, UT165, and IT1167. Click the or Update button

: It rewrites the drive's partition table, clears bad blocks, and reinitializes the controller firmware. Windows may prompt you to format the drive

The Top version includes a proprietary algorithm that remaps bad sectors during low-level formatting. In my tests, this revived two microSD cards that Windows Diskpart marked as "write-protected" and "fatal hardware error."