I have a 256 Flash Drive and used it many times before. Now it is asking me if I want to format it. I checked the properties and it shows that the flash drive is full. I have information on it that I need to get from it and I am not able to. How would I go about doing this without formatting the flash drive. I am using Windows XP, so this should not have been a problem. I have another flash drive and it works great still. Please let me know. Thank you
2006-08-11 10:54:50 · 6 answers · asked by dwlj_dj 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
If you put the flash drive into a USB drive and go to My Computer, you should be able to select the flash drive by double clicking it icon for it.
Select all the files that are on it and copy them. Paste them into a folder of your choosing, like My Documents.
Then, since they are saved on your hard drive, you should be able to format the flash drive....if you wanted to. Formatting the drive will erase all information on it.
Some people use flash drives almost as an expensive version of a floppy disc.
2006-08-11 10:59:53 · answer #1 · answered by drizzt_234 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I haven't seen that with a USB drive but I have seen that with an SD memory card before...I stick it into my PC's reader most of the time and I get a drive letter and can copy files to/from it just like you can with USB flash drives. One day it was telling me it needed to format the drive. I had pics on there, and managed to salvage them by using a recovery program (something RESCUE was its name, I'm not at home now)...but once I got the pics extracted, I was then able to format the drive and it worked fine after that... so more than likely something has caused some kind of corruption to your USB device and once you format the drive it should be ok.
For me, I only keep extra copies of stuff I need on the drive, so that if it fails sometime in the future, I should have a copy of it on the PC somewhere.
2006-08-11 11:03:31 · answer #2 · answered by Information Scavenger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually when this situation occurs, your portable drive has been damaged. It might occur from inserting & removing it improperly, or maybe it was jostled hard. In any case, your drive was put through a physically rough position and may have been scratched up so as to hinder its storage performance. Sometimes the data may be retrieved by luck on another computer or randomly work fine another time. You probably shouldn't get your hopes up for saving your files, unfortunately. Stick to the other one you have, and try to keep it out of harm's way.
2006-08-11 11:01:28 · answer #3 · answered by olea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once you burn an ISO image to a DVD, then the DVD will change right into a DVD-ROM and its finished means will change into the capactiy taken with the help of its content cloth, that's because you could't upload something on a DVD-ROM and also you could't format it both. With flash drives its thoroughly distinct and also you could continuously format it to its unique means, pondering also the quantity taken with the help of the record device.
2016-11-24 20:44:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-11 11:04:32 · answer #5 · answered by mrresearchman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This flash might be dead
2006-08-19 08:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋