Why can't I open the flash drive?

Question

Windows

Hello!
Please tell me the flash drive from the phone worked fine, at one point it stopped. I insert it into the computer through the card reader, a new shortcut appears with a flash drive, but it is gray and through the properties view it shows what is busy / free - 0 bytes.
And on the flash drive there are important pictures, tell me please

Answer 1

Why can't I open the flash drive?

Broke.
Throw away the flash drive and buy a new one.
If the pictures are valuable - restore from backup.
If there is no backup, you can try to restore from a USB flash drive, but this is expensive and unlikely.

Answer 2

Do not throw away the flash drive, it has problems, I did this in such a situation (I’ll make a reservation right away that if you lose the data it’s not my fault)
1. Format the flash drive either with standard tools or the Formatter SiliconPower
utility 2. Next, do not write anything to this flash drive, select the program for recovery, I personally use DiskGenius Professional 5 or EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, but there are a lot of them and you scan the flash drive. Find the section or files there. pull it out and put it on another disk.

Answer 3

Check with R.tester: https://rlab.ru/tools/rtester.html
If he somehow determines it - manufacturer, capacity, etc., then write what and how, then you need to look at the situation.

And there are important pictures on the flash drive

If the memory card is not detected in the R. tester, then alas, you can’t do anything yourself, the only option is: https://xn----7sbbfbnfa0a2audfacc2cat8e9f.xn--p1ai/
Considering that you have a microSD, this is a monolithic flash drive, you can often get photos, but you need to contact a company that is professionally engaged only in data recovery.