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USB Key broken?

  • 28-01-2004 5:02pm
    #1
    Enygma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    Got a 128M USB key there a few weeks ago. Was working fine until the other day.
    When I put it into the USB port it was detected and a new drive letter showed up but when I double click on the drive it says "Please insert a drive into drive E:"
    When I right-click and go to properties it says there is 0 bytes free and 0 bytes used. Filesystem unknown.

    Looks to me like its broken, anyone got any tricks that I can use to get it back?

    Nice one!


Comments

  • #2
    Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭Rambo


    Look like the file system is gone

    you will have to format it


  • #3
    Mac daddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,942 ✭✭✭Mac daddy


    try dif usb port format it, :)


  • #4
    Crimson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Crimson


    HA u brock it :p --- format should sort that out for ya


  • #5
    whosurpaddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭whosurpaddy


    was getting similar messages out of a zip disk last week. when i tried to access it, it told me "Please insert a drive into drive E:"

    when i tried to format i got the msg "the drive cannot be formatted". dunno how helpful it is, but my disk was well an truely fubared. try formatting


  • #6
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Just reformat as FAT32. Normally the USB Keys are pretty reliable and even the heaviest user would have trouble b0rking one in less than a month.


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  • #7
    raster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 189 ✭✭raster


    Originally posted by whosurpaddy
    was getting similar messages out of a zip disk last week. when i tried to access it, it told me "Please insert a drive into drive E:"

    when i tried to format i got the msg "the drive cannot be formatted". dunno how helpful it is, but my disk was well an truely fubared. try formatting

    I got that error when I tried to format a 250MB (or maybe 500MB?) disc in my old 100MB zip drive.


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