I have a flash drive that has some important files on it that I cannot get to. While I was running scandisk on my computer I had left the flash drive in. scandisk stated that the directory on the c drive was not structured properly and since I was having problems with that computer, I told it to repair the directory. It did and now my files are still there, I just cannot get to them. How can I fix this?
2006-10-29 15:53:12 · 5 answers · asked by Sally 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
as you can not get the files of this drive on your system try to retrive them on another system
if works format the drive on the other system and try again
2006-11-05 22:56:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Vivi there. You don't have much hope.
If the files are really that important, you may be able to restore them. Here is a greate little Linux Live CD for harddrive forensics:
http://www.e-fense.com/helix/downloads.php
Boot off the CD, it loads a customly designed linux system full of tools for getting at data. BUT If you are totally unfamiliar with linux, i.e. if you don't know how to mount a usb drive...this won't help you much.
2006-10-30 00:05:53 · answer #2 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use the flash drive in another computer and save the files in it. format ur flashdirve by right clicking on it. now copy ur files bak to the flash memory. best of luck
2006-11-03 23:05:11 · answer #3 · answered by navaneeth p 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That has happened to me before.
Unfortunately, the only thing we could figure out to do was wipe the drive completely.
It worked, but I lost a few files.
In my case, they weren't important, but for you, this could be a problem.
2006-10-29 23:56:49 · answer #4 · answered by Vivien 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, it is one of those things that works or doesn't.
2006-10-30 00:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋