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Thread ID: 102043 2009-08-05 07:57:00 usb flash drives agatornz (9898) Press F1
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798392 2009-08-05 09:00:00 I had the same thing happen to me.
Had my flash drive in copying things off it from school and my brother was in a mood and pulled it out. Now when I put it in it tells me to format it which I do and it says its is 8mb meant to be 512 so I format it and then it brings up an error message saying it was unable to format. Any way to get it back to working?

Tried linux?
Blam (54)
798393 2009-08-05 09:13:00 so you burn it to a cd, and then plug the defunct drive in to your pc, open the iso and ? it can see the usb drive that the computer cant? and then go ahead and format it? agatornz (9898)
798394 2009-08-05 09:17:00 You need to boot from the CD, then format the drive, yep. Don't format the wrong one!:p Blam (54)
798395 2009-08-05 09:43:00 ok so i got the file and burned as an image to the cd... so then what..

am i assuming that you can then run the program from the image and it will recognise all the drives even the usb on the pc cant see...
agatornz (9898)
798396 2009-08-05 09:45:00 ops cancel that didnt get your last.. got you know.. ;-) agatornz (9898)
798397 2009-08-05 12:23:00 You shouldn't need to use GParted.

Just running disk management (type 'diskmgmt.msc') should allow you to see the drive (even if the filesystem is corrupted) and reformat it.
Agent_24 (57)
798398 2009-08-05 12:38:00 You shouldn't need to use GParted.

Just running disk management (type 'diskmgmt.msc') should allow you to see the drive (even if the filesystem is corrupted) and reformat it.

Windows does not always see the drive, even in disk management
Blam (54)
798399 2009-08-05 13:52:00 I know but that usually doesn't happen Agent_24 (57)
798400 2009-08-05 21:09:00 have a friend that seems to excel at wrecking these beastys,,, i suspect she is removing them with out ejecting them . . .

does this break them?

It can corrupt the data, yes .
pctek (84)
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