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Solve : USB Thumb Drive! ARRR!? |
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Answer» Ok, so I seem to have all sorts of formatting issues lately. I have this 1GB thumb drive and my computer recognizes that something is plugged into the USB drive, but it is not formatted. It will NOT format it, no matter how many times I try. It says"The disk in drive E: is not formatted. Would you like to format it now?" Why of course i say YES and press "start", then it says "The disk in Drive E: cannot be formatted." It's not just this computer, it's ANY computer. I tried e-mailing the company about it, but they blew me off. It's a Dane-elec zMate Pen NACRE (USB 2.0) 1GB drive. It says from the company website that they are "plug-n-play" for any OS over Windows 98. Well, this is a WinXP OS, so theorhetically this should work. It's not acting very "plug-n-play" to me... Any suggestions? if it doesnt work in any computer then chances are that the device is defective. i honestly would not spend too much time trying to troubleshoot it when you can purchase new 1gb flash drives for as little as $5.Bummer. It stopped working right out the box. No wonder the company never responded. Arrrr!It never worked? Are you able to RETURN it or exchange it?no, it never worked. I guess i should have kept the reciept... You could always try formatting it on another machine... or take it apart to see what the insides look like my personal choice. 1. Disk Management Utility (Windows XP). Can be used to re-partition the flash drive (some use the term low-level format). See options II and III from Tedster's Sticky post. 2. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. The forums frequently mention HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool as being able to format most USB flash drives. You don't need to make the USB flash drive bootable. 3. How To Check and Test USB Flash Drive. The Check Flash 1.05 utility appears to be worth a look and may have capability for "low level initialization" of the flash drive. 4. Zero out Flash Drive. As a last resort you could zero out the flash drive with a hex editor, although at least one person claimed they could no longer write to the drive after doing this. Thank you so much. I will definitely try this when I get home. I can't download system tools on my work computer. It's 'the man'! Boo! Haha! Um- you can repartition a Thumb drive? because the last time I tried that, it dismounted the drive, removed it from the list, moved the selection to my third hard drive, and repartitioned it. "OH F..." I believe I said.Quote "OH F..." I believe I said. You must've been referring to your F: drive. Quote from: Aegis on May 28, 2008, 10:56:11 PM Quote"OH F..." I believe I said. Now let's not bring my dear departed CD-burner into this- it died shortly after said incident when I (stupidly) decided to update the firmware. Dead drive. So I drop to DOS and use a program to pipe the firmware code directly through the IDE, completely forgetting that my third HD (finally with some amount of usable data) was set as a slave on the secondary. In short, the Firmware for the CD/RW drive was sent to the HD. Stranger still, it suddenly halved the total space of the drive! (4GB to 2GB), and made the file system unrecognizable. Yes, a lot of memories of data loss from that period... Now I actually back up a few things. Actually, I'm not even sure if I had selected the thumb drive, I might have accidentally clicked the third HD... |
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