And it just stopped working. It got detected by Windows and the driver got installed smoothly but when I tried to open it, it said that I should insert a disc into the drive. The message looked similar to this one:
I have been thinking that usb drives are a reliable source of data storage. But today I learned that there is nothing called reliable in the digital world. You have to have your backup stored in multiple locations to save yourself from losses.
Now I had the data in my 1 GB usb drive. But it seemed that it had ruined itself. It was not even formatting. Now my concern was not the data but the usb drive itself. I did fix the usb drive but had no data in it.
Now how did I fix it. Let me tell you. I first reinstalled the driver but nothing happened with same results in hand. So I went to Right click My Computer –> Manage –> Disk Management. Fortunately the drive was showing there but it was not showing any file system in it, just the total amount of space left. I right clicked the removable drive and chose to Change Drive letter and paths. Then removed the already assigned drive letter, Right clicked the removable drive again and chose to partition the drive. Windows created a new partition on the usb drive, assigned the new drive letter and formatted the partition successfully. This saved my drive from ruining. If anyone of you have got problems with your usb drives, please share your experiences.
thank you it worked
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Hello Sanix,
I have a corrupted USB drive too and just like you have realized USB drives are not reliable data storage devices. Unfortunately I have important data that I have to recover. Not sure if you would have the solution but here it goes.
It’s a 512mb SandDisk Cruzer Mini USB drive that used to work perfectly fine until recently. All of a sudden for no apparent reason my pc (XP SP2) is have trouble reading the usb drive and slows down the system in the process. When I tried to access the usb drive in command prompt, after about 3 minutes I got the following error message:
“The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted.”
Then I went into “Device Manager” and saw the usb drive listed under “Disk Drives”. Double clicking on it reveals that the “Device Status” is “This device is working properly.” So I believe the drivers are not the problem but somehow volume is corrupted.
I tried other USB drives on the same usb port and had no problems so it’s not the usb port that has problem. I also tried my faulty USB drive on other pc’s and they all had trouble reading it.
Thanks for any help.
thx m8 it worked
excuse me sir. i can’t seem to have an option of partition the drive if i right click the device..
Right clicked the removable drive again and chose to partition the drive
>>>this part of the instruction is not applicable for me..there is not option in the menu everytime i right click my device..any help pls?
help.