When I try to open it.. The System tells me "Please insert a disk into drive G:"... I tried many things.. in Disk Management the flash drive appears in the list below "Unreadable"... I tried "Kill Disk" tool and I cannot format it under DOS "FDISK"... I tried to format it under Win XP but the system didn't make any response.... Please give reasonable answers as I'm an experienced computer user.... Thanks in advance....
2006-12-22 06:09:09 · 8 answers · asked by jmdanial 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
The most likely choice is that your flash drive is dead.
If you are dealing with a U3 compatible drive, maybe its only mounting the fake cd portion to launch U3. I am an A+ certified technician and I've never seen this before. You are welcome to contact me, I am going to go ahead and change my prefs to allow emails.
2006-12-22 06:12:32 · answer #1 · answered by premise 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
USB plugs and sockets don't have endless lifespans. those metallic contacts are quite basically the metallic leads on a circuit board. After fairly some insertions and removals, the metallic on the contacts will finally positioned on out. they might additionally get grimy. one in each and every of your different respondents pronounced taking the flash rigidity aside, and that i agree. be careful. Taking it aside truthfully relatively potential breaking it aside. Get all of it the way down to the bare little circuit board. as quickly as you will see that the contacts on the area that is going into the USB socket on your laptop, clean them up with a cotton swab and alcohol. Then, through fact the different guy pronounced, insert it interior the socket and gently wiggle it around. With success it will paintings this one final time. If it does paintings, reproduction all the information OFF OF IT at present, and positioned it on a clean flash rigidity. do no longer use the previous one back. (i've got have been given quite a few SanDisk flash drives. None has failed yet, yet all of them will finally.)
2016-10-15 11:02:01 · answer #2 · answered by croes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before you do anything, I'd first make sure there isn't software that's suppose to be used in conjuction with your drive. Or that you have the latest USB drivers (which you probably do).
Then I'd go to the manufacture's website and see if there's a fix for your problem. A program, document, anything that might help.
But keep in mind that USB Flash drives are just covered sticks of RAM. Ram is susceptible to die or get damaged. So it's possible your USB flash drive is simply gone for good.
2006-12-22 06:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by The 3rd Nipple 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes if you don't use the "Safely Remove Hardware" before removing a flash drive, you can damage the device. But, since you said you were an experienced computer user, I would assume you were already doing that. But, then again, I am also an experienced computer user and occassionally I forget to do something properly... "Doh".
2006-12-22 06:13:39 · answer #4 · answered by Sugar_Mama 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
When flash disk is not detected by the system that means USB dirver in Windows cannot recognize you flash disk. if disk is not recognize you cant perform any operation on it such as format, scan, etc. If your disk never turned up on your system try intalling the USB driver from internet or CD.
2006-12-22 06:17:11 · answer #5 · answered by Talha 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
My thumb drive started doing that after about a year and I just had to replace it..In my experience those jump drives dont last more than about a year or 2 if you use them often.
2006-12-22 06:11:20 · answer #6 · answered by tchem75 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Usually flash drives that do that are faulty. You may just have to replace it. But you might also want to check the drivers for the drive and try reinstalling the driver and see what happens.
2006-12-22 06:16:06 · answer #7 · answered by daniel k 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yeah i've had that problem with my USB ports, and the problem isn't your USB, it's your ports. Try inserting in all the back ports of the computer and see if it works.
2006-12-22 06:12:59 · answer #8 · answered by Atsuke 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋