I have an 8Gb usb flash drive that USED to work but now it's just a Removable Disk. This is what windows EXPLORER shows. When I click on it I get a message Insert disk into drive (E:). If I try to FORMAT with a right click I get the error No Disk In Drive E:.

How can I recover this flash drive?
ThanksLots of options....one may help you out.

http://www.google.com/search?q=recover+flash+drive&rls=com.microsoft:en-ca:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLL_enDoes the flash drive work in other computers?Thanks, but no. Didn't help.
Most of those are file recovery programs and I need disk recovery program. Also they are shareware and cost more than the flash drive itself.

No, doesn't work on ther computers either.
Try recuva
http://www.recuva.com/Thanks, but Recuva is also a file recovery program.
Windwos doesn't recognize the drive, just that something is there.
File recovery programs ask for file to recover and shows the directory tree etc. In my case there is no directory tree, it asks me to insert a disc into a drive.
This is interesting: I knew about the fakes on Ebay, but not how they did it or what happens when you start to fill it up...

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Some unbranded or counterfeit flash drives are hacked to display the wrong drive size using the manufactures mass production tool and then sold as larger capacity drives. For example a flash drive with a 4GB NAND chip will report itself as 8GB drive. These drives often work until the user starts to fill the drive with data after which it becomes unreadable. These fake flash drives are usually sourced from china and sold on eBay.