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Desbrina
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 Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject: USB drive trouble |
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This morning in one of my college lessons my USB drive was working fine. The 20 Minutes later in another lesson it wouldn't work.
The USB is a Kingston and is about 3 years old
It would show up in My Computer, but every time i tried to open it i got Please Insert Disk. My Tutor tried it and he got that it wasn't formatted. He tried to format it since i can't, and it wouldn't work through Right Click -> Format, the format dialogue box wouldn't come up, so he tried through Command Line and it came up with an error which started with IO but i can't remember the full error. I left it to try it at home
When i got home i had the same problem. Vista was saying it wasn't formatted. If i tried to format it via Right Click -> Format, the dialogue box came up and when i clicked Format i got a message saying it couldn't be formatted.
I tried it through Command Prompt and got
| Quote: | C:\Users\Desbrina>format L:
Insert new disk for drive L:
and press ENTER when ready...
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is FAT.
Verifying 0M
The specified cluster size is too big for FAT. |
Is the drive dead?
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Why not try formatting the drive in NTFS?
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Could it be possible that the drive just contains no partition or a 0mb-sized partition?
Try checking with a partitioning tool that supports partitioning USB disks. (I guess partition magic can do that)
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Did you use the memory stick a lot (as in run portable software of it)?
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