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USB corrupted, cannot format.

Discussion in 'Technical, Reviews & Website Design' started by Nick HH, Nov 30, 2011.

  1. Nick HH Strong Breeze

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    So today my USB went nuts and i cannot access my uni files on the drive. I have no idea how. It could have been me taking it our before windows had stopped the device, im pretty sure i did. It also wont let me format. Ive been on google for many hours looking for a fix, tried mulitple ways but nothing yet. about 60% of it was backed-up, but that 40% that wasn't would be pretty useful right now, especially the stuff i was working on this morning! grrr.

    The problem; the drive format has change from FAT to RAW, meaning i cannot do chkdsk in the command prompt. Ive tried multiple programs and disk management but nothing successful.

    Does it sound like it could be a hardware problem rather than a software issue?

    I posted here as i wondered if anyone had has a problem like this and if they overcame it?!

    Anyho, i am guess that i am trying to avoid giving up and saying ive lost it, but thanks for reading!

    *EDIT* i should also mention that this error appears in some processes: Bad parameters for calculating logical drive information from boot sector.

    Still trying to figure out what that means.
    Nick HH, Nov 30, 2011
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  2. Luke M Storm

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    IS there any IT support for the building campuses it may be worth dropping it into them? Could try and use something like http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/ its free for the first 1GB.

    I have had this happen in the past twice and every-time I lost my documents :(. So i use DropBox instead now.

    Edit: could need a low level format to get the USB to work again but it would loose all the documents.
    Luke M, Dec 1, 2011
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  4. Nick HH Strong Breeze

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    Thanks Luke, thats one program i had not tried but unfortunately it didnt work, i think its lost for ever! Yeh i have dropbox, i just havent got use to using it yet, maybe this is the hint to start to!

    Thanks for that link Twister, it was a program i came across while googling.
    Nick HH, Dec 1, 2011
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  6. Nick HH Strong Breeze

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    Thanks for that link beteljuice. I hadnt come across this site but unfortunately that didnt help help. No partitions were found.
    Nick HH, Dec 2, 2011
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  7. beteljuice [MVP] Applications

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    If "Thorough Scan" found nothing I'm afraid your stick is no more :icon_eek:
    beteljuice, Dec 3, 2011
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