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Wonderful flash drive
Okay, so I bought a 2GB flash drive a year ago.  It's the biggest and fastest flash drive I've ever had.  Interestingly, today, it seems like it decided to stop working...
Was at Uni, using Portable Firefox, then at some point in time, I decided I wanted to open some other file on the flash drive.  Interestingly, Windows popped up with "Please insert a disk in drive E:".  Okay, closed Portable Firefox, unplugged the drive, and put it back in, said same thing.  Tried on another computer, exactly the same thing.  Does the same at home too.
The nice thing is that when you try to format, Windows complains that there's no drive to format, so you're stuck with Windows saying that it can find the drive, and the drive exists, but when you try to access it, it claims that it doesn't exist...

Doing a Google (wow, does that actually make sense?), I found some suggestions - either use Windows 9x / Linux to try formatting or use HP's drive utility.  For Windows 9x, my nForce4 chipset doesn't like it.  Linux LiveCDs won't work either since I have a SATA based CD drive and HP's utility refuses to work on Windows XP x64.

Great.  I may try some things over the weekend, but it looks like I've lost a drive...
06/09/2007 02:55 AM
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Wonderful flash drive - ZiNgA BuRgA - 06/09/2007 02:55 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - robertotron - 06/09/2007, 03:12 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - diego - 06/09/2007, 03:17 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - UncertainGod - 06/09/2007, 03:19 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - ZiNgA BuRgA - 06/09/2007, 03:48 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - Nacos - 06/09/2007, 04:06 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - hibbyware - 06/09/2007, 04:11 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - squee666 - 06/09/2007, 06:36 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - dedat - 06/09/2007, 09:27 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - UncertainGod - 06/09/2007, 09:46 AM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - ZiNgA BuRgA - 06/09/2007, 03:20 PM
RE: Wonderful flash drive - dedat - 06/09/2007, 03:23 PM

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