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Post by Nobody on Apr 4, 2007 23:03:04 GMT -8
I was trying to transfer a file from one computer to the other with my flash drive and it said that it is too small. Now the stuff that i was moving was only 89MB. And my flash drive is 2GB. I checked the properties of the flash drive and it said that it only has a capacity of 1mb. This flash drive worked before, but after i formatted it, it became 1mb. I tried to reformat it but the option for 2gb does not come up. Please help.
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Post by FrkUout on Apr 5, 2007 8:01:37 GMT -8
First, try a different USB port. Second, if you have a different computer try it on that machine to see if it's Vista reading the size wrong. If the same size is reported on both machines, it's a good possibility that the flash drive memory is shot.
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Post by Nobody on Apr 5, 2007 11:10:39 GMT -8
I tried it on my other computer and it says the same thing. What do you mean by shot?
Oh and if it helps the flash drive is a cruzer titanium from sandisk with 2gb of space.
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Post by FrkUout on Apr 5, 2007 12:56:50 GMT -8
shot=bad. It could have been a bad format or the memory has gone bad due to a static spark or a surge from the system. In other words...it's dead.
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Post by Nobody on Apr 5, 2007 14:43:52 GMT -8
I reinstalled the thingy it came with and it is back up now. It wouldnt format using FAT 32, so when i reinstalled U3 it came back. Everything is working now.
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Post by FrkUout on Apr 5, 2007 15:03:29 GMT -8
That's good. It shouldn't take some software for it to work correctly though.
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Post by Zangief on Apr 5, 2007 21:10:32 GMT -8
Hey that was going to be my suggestion. If it came with software, you should be able to use that software to re-format it.
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Post by Nobody on Apr 6, 2007 15:56:52 GMT -8
That's good. It shouldn't take some software for it to work correctly though. Yea its strange, it looked like a hardware problem. But here is what happened: I found the software for the flash drive online. It came with U3 launchpad thingy. So on there website i decided to remove the U3 software from the device and reinstall it. And when i reinstalled it, it automatically formatted during the installation process. So thats how it came back. |
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