USB flash drive formatting permanent error?

i went back to my xp to do your diskpart method, and when i listed the disks, it showed two disks with 75 GB capacity each and it had 0 B used. weird. (in elevated cmd)

my C:\ and my other hdd wasnt showing and so was the Busted USB

you are probably having the same problem as me.
however, mine is probably more advanced, because i cannot even find it to attempt to format it.
have you been getting "core system error 13" on a crash report?

thanks in advance,
luke