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    Windows (and me) go wth to USB drive

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by notyou, Apr 23, 2008.

  1. notyou

    notyou Notebook Deity

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    My USB drive has been acting up (likely going to fail soon, I know) with files being corrupted and non-existent data taking up space. But when I checked out how much space was being used I hit this, and I said wtf?
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    EDIT: anyone else have a moment like this during their computing life?
     
    notyou, Apr 23, 2008
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    ran checkdisk? hdtune?

    also have you tried defragging it?

    tried another computer?
     
    flipfire, Apr 23, 2008
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  3. notyou

    notyou Notebook Deity

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    Yeah, it finds errors all the time. The weird thing is that data isn't always corrupted, it's more of a random thing. I haven't tried defragging it yet but I definitely should. It also has been used on different computers and it's the same deal. Reformatting also doesn't work, is there any way to block bad sectors since it doesn't seem it's doing it now.

    EDIT: the point of this thread wasn't really to fix this since it's probably gone anyways, but rather to hear any stories about weird things that have happened. Like my 8GB USB drive holding 3.51 TB of data :p
     
    notyou, Apr 23, 2008
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  4. Jstn7477

    Jstn7477 Sam I Am

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    If I were you, I would get a new flash drive and not face the consequences of data loss. If you believe in Murphy's Law it will probably fail when you need it the most And I doubt that there is any way to block dead parts of a flash memory IC.

    -J.B.
     
    Jstn7477, Apr 23, 2008
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  5. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    did u ever at one time or another set this usb as ready.boost device?

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Apr 24, 2008
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