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Imajin Bot Local Moderator Currently affected by 'No syndrome' ---!!!                  Since: 12-05-05 From: Camineet, Palm Last post: 6302 days Last view: 6302 days |
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| I have a SanDisk 1GB Flash Drive, which has been causing me some trouble as of late. The drive will not recognize new items put on it (though the original items still work), and then some of the items there have mysteriously vanished while one (rather large) folder has been turned into a file, the files within it vanished. This is a problem, as one might guess... any body know how to fix it? | |||
Tarale    2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata    Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6301 days Last view: 6301 days |
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| Not really, but I'd try putting all your existing data on there onto a Hard Disk temporarily (backup) and reformatting the drive. See if it makes any difference / improvement. | |||
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Xeon The master of the universe... Since: 03-09-06 From: Omaha, NE Last post: 6609 days Last view: 6609 days |
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| Sounds like the filesystem on the flash drive has become corrupted, or the flash memory has a defect and is failing. Or it could be dirty connectors on the thumb drive causing slight problems. Try backing up the data on it, formatting it, then putting the stuff back on. If you still experiance problems, check if the pins are dirty and use rubbing alchohol and a q-tip to clean anything off them. | |||
FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos  Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6301 days Last view: 6301 days |
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| Have you been properly ejecting the disk for the operating system to finish write operations?
Check the filesystem on it Windows: chkdsk /f <DriveLetter>: Unix-like: fsck /dev/<devicename> |
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Imajin Bot Local Moderator Currently affected by 'No syndrome' ---!!! Since: 12-05-05 From: Camineet, Palm Last post: 6302 days Last view: 6302 days |
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| Before I try something drastic, is it safe to format the drive? I'm just worried it will make it useless. | |||
neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6301 days |
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| it could also be the case that the drive has reached the end of its life. After writing to the drive enough times, the drive will eventually be rendered useless and whatever you wrote in there is in the permanently.
so, depending on the age, what I just said may be the case. As for formatting the drive, I don't see the harm in it, but if you have limited writing capability due to "natural wear", it may just kill the drive... |
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Jouw Koopa  Since: 12-03-05 Last post: 6311 days Last view: 6311 days |
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| Yes, it's safe to format it.
I once had a similar problem with my Sandisk 1GB Memory Stick Duo in my PSP. While writing to it, it crashed and many files corrupted: my only remedy was to transfer those files OK to my computer, reformat the MS and transfer back. |
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