USB drive help
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:13 am
Got a nice 16GB flash drive to replace an old 4GB one.
It worked fine for about 15 seconds. For some reason when I was copying a few files over to it, it disconnected (virtually, not physically)from my computer. Now I can't do anything with it.
When I plug it in, it shows up in My Computer, with about 1GB of space taken up (the amount that copied before everything went to hell).
As it does this, the message shows up about it not being unplugged properly, and asks if I want Windows to fix it.
I click yes and it brings up the default system checker program. Click scan. The Start button grays out as it usually would, but the scan doesn't start. After 3 hours of waiting it would not start. Takes about a minute for the scan to cancel (after several messages saying it can't cancel).
When I go to scan it using a drive partition and management program (Acronis Disk Director), the program crashes after scanning the flash drive (runs fine on a nearly identical flash drive that my dad uses).
When I try to open it to see the files, Windows Explorer crashes.
When I try to format it (Windows Default), the formatter follows the same pattern as the error checker. Start button grays out as usual, and nothing else happens.
So... does anyone have any suggestions on what else I could try?
Edit: after each of the above fails, when attempting any of them a message pops up saying access denied, with either "no permissions" or "device in use".
It worked fine for about 15 seconds. For some reason when I was copying a few files over to it, it disconnected (virtually, not physically)from my computer. Now I can't do anything with it.
When I plug it in, it shows up in My Computer, with about 1GB of space taken up (the amount that copied before everything went to hell).
As it does this, the message shows up about it not being unplugged properly, and asks if I want Windows to fix it.
I click yes and it brings up the default system checker program. Click scan. The Start button grays out as it usually would, but the scan doesn't start. After 3 hours of waiting it would not start. Takes about a minute for the scan to cancel (after several messages saying it can't cancel).
When I go to scan it using a drive partition and management program (Acronis Disk Director), the program crashes after scanning the flash drive (runs fine on a nearly identical flash drive that my dad uses).
When I try to open it to see the files, Windows Explorer crashes.
When I try to format it (Windows Default), the formatter follows the same pattern as the error checker. Start button grays out as usual, and nothing else happens.
So... does anyone have any suggestions on what else I could try?
Edit: after each of the above fails, when attempting any of them a message pops up saying access denied, with either "no permissions" or "device in use".
