as most of you  probably know i have a bit of a knack for breaking portable electronics. well my most recent victim is my pendrive. i was creating a new folder when i noticed a load of oddly named folders. i check the properties and the add up to  over 400GB (its only a 2gb pendrive)  so  i back everything up and format the drive to get rid of the corruption. 'Windows cannot format this drive. Format failed'  double you tee eff????!!!!! so i try again, same. again in FAT16 instead of FAT32, same. try quick instead of full format, same. so i take it out and try everything on my brothers computer, same. by now I'm really getting a bit angreh. so i take it  out and slam it down on the desk just  to vent a bit of frustration. i thought, 'well the pendrive is already broken so there's no harm in bashing it around a bit. in fact it  would be quite satisfying to see it break into lots of little pieces'. unfortunately, it didn't break up into lots of little pieces, but when i plugged it back into the computer to see if my bashing had had any effect, IT WORKED!!!!1!!!!. its now formatted  with FAT32  and working fine.

goes to prove the old saying: 'when in doubt, give it a clout.'