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    Corrupted usb stick

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by Tsun, May 6, 2010.

  1. Tsun

    Tsun Notebook Consultant

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    You know what they say,
    all toasters, toast-
    I mean, a picture tells more than a thousand words:
    http://i40.tinypic.com/1id5qf.png

    So the question is what happened?
    Or more like; how can i get rid of them?

    Kingston DataTravel 16gb
     
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Get rid of them? Reformat might work. But when a drive starts showing those kinds of errors, you may as well toss it, because you can't trust it with your data.

    Is it possible that you got a fake drive? There are many times cheap drives that have only 1-4GB of space but are programmed to display larger capacities, so they work fine initially but start erroring out when you fill them.
     
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  3. Tsun

    Tsun Notebook Consultant

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    I got those errors from trying to delete them.
    I formatted the thing and they're gone now...

    Also i don't think i got a bad drive... it's got a very long warranty and i brought it from a major store which i highly doubt has "fake" items.
    Wasn't particularly cheap either.

    I use the stick for porting stuff to school and everything has worked well...
    Out of like 3000 files i had inside, only those 3 got corrupted, and they were almost in the same location.
    It could be the fact that i'm too lazy to wait and just stuck all folders in one by one at the same time and go to school while it's transferring them. (i mean so windows has like 15 of the transferring windows open)

    Maybe i just did something wrong while i was porting that folder(doesn't have much stuff in it).
    Also the files are really normal .png image files despite one showing as 400mb+
     
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