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    Weird USB drive problems

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by 517a, Jul 13, 2012.

  1. 517a

    517a Notebook Enthusiast

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    Probably it is not a AW related problem, but I was using my m17x R4 while this problem occurred, and I haven't seen similar problem before. And I like to get some help, since it is such a nice community here.
    Anyway, I was copying movies from a usb drive my laptop, for some reasons I was copying them one by one. After the 2nd one finished, I tried to copy the 3rd one, but it couldn't read the file, I refreshed (closed/re-opened the window) it. All my movies files gone, and some weird files appear on the usb. The are about 15m in size and created date was 1980 or something. There wasn't any error message before this happened, no power interruption either.
    Anyone has similar experience? Or any idea what cause this?
    virus? Scanned with McAfee, found nothing.
    USB malfunction? The usb apparently still readable.
    System/laptop related?
    What else?

    Help please :confused: :confused: :confused:
     
    517a, Jul 13, 2012
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  2. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    It seems like a weird software glitch, if this only happened once then don't worry about it. It'll most likely never happen again.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jul 13, 2012
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    517a Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks Luis, I hope that is the case. I just wanna know what is the likely cause of this, and try to avoid it in the future.
     
    517a, Jul 13, 2012
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  4. Eddie12390

    Eddie12390 Notebook Consultant

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    You probably loosened the drive a little too much causing it not to make contact anymore which corrupted the files.
     
    Eddie12390, Jul 13, 2012
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