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| 798382 | 2009-08-05 07:57:00 | 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? is there any software fix when this happens and they refuse to show up on drives table ever again? |
agatornz (9898) | ||
| 798383 | 2009-08-05 08:11:00 | You either reformat them or do a chkdsk on 'em(run>cmd>chkdsk X: /r) to fix the file system errors. Provided she is not working on something while she pulls it out it should be fine and should not affect it though as it should be set as Quick Removal in device manager(run>devmgmt.msc>disk drives>doube click yours>policies) Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 798384 | 2009-08-05 08:14:00 | ok - thats what i thought.. but how can i format the usb drive if every pc i plug it on to wont recognise it as being present... | agatornz (9898) | ||
| 798385 | 2009-08-05 08:15:00 | It sounds like its stuffed then. Removing it while its writing or something may corrupt it, it shouldnt make it unusuable | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 798386 | 2009-08-05 08:18:00 | It sounds like its stuffed then. Removing it while its writing or something may corrupt it, it shouldnt make it unusuable Yes it can. I've seen it happen many times. agatornz-The file system may be so dead that windows explorer doesn't see it, see if it apears in disk management(run>diskmgmt.msc) If that fails, you may be able to boot from a gparted disc and format it. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 798387 | 2009-08-05 08:25:00 | Maybe I havent done it enough times then :p | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 798388 | 2009-08-05 08:27:00 | Thanks Blam, your talking to a mere mortal here.. what is a gparted disk.... from my laptop? |
agatornz (9898) | ||
| 798389 | 2009-08-05 08:33:00 | search for it in google | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 798390 | 2009-08-05 08:42:00 | 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? |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 798391 | 2009-08-05 08:42:00 | Maybe I havent done it enough times then :p Too true-I see this very often because I'm a high school student....and teens don't treat their laptops and periphrals like they should be:xmouth: agatornz: Grab it from here (sourceforge.net), its an ISO file. You burn that iso file to a CD/DVD as an image, if you don't have an image burning program use ImgBurn (fileforum.betanews.com) Blam |
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