How to Fix Errors and Format USB Flash Drives

1. flyashi | 10/08/05  #

This is actually a really useful thing.

I’ve had name-brand flash drives not always copy the data, and I’ve seen corrupted data be recoved by Windows. If this helps at least one person recover that vital data, then it was all worth it.

So, thank you for sharing your experience.

2. Anonymous | 10/08/05  #

Deleting and then recopying the file will most likely not copy to the same area of the disk. Flash memory has internal mechanisms that distribute data so that one area is not used more often then others; this improves the lifespan of the memory.

3. Anonymous | 10/08/05  #

After pulling a USB stick out during boot of a PC, before Windoze had started, I found it was no longer readable. OK, no biggie, only non-critical data was lost. However I could NOT re-format the drive, Windows would fail at the task. I feard the stick was dead until I formatted it in a few seconds as a FAT drive using Linux!

4. Anonymous | 11/08/05  #

I’ve had to do this a couple of times for a pesky SD Card on a camera. But, I use fdisk on a linux machine.

5. Anonymous | 11/08/05  #

I bought a Lexar JumpDrive 512 and was horrified to discover that while I could read and write to it just fine, I was forced to use 8.3 style filenames.

Turns out it was formatted in FAT, not FAT16. I reformatted it from windows file explorer just like it was a hard drive, and it’s worked perfectly ever since. I copied the autorun folder and it’s files back onto it afterwards, and it even installs the secure partition driver upon insertion.

6. Mauricio | 17/08/05  #

hello
i have an usb flashdrive (centrios, 256mb)..
its not even 6 months old and its not working..
i tried to format it but it doesnt work..
the thing that finds and corrects all errors on the flashdrive doesnt work either..

7. Anonymous | 20/09/05  #

Recently a friend gave me a flash drive to test (verify) it.
As the documentation sais it’s a
SONY Micro Vault USM8024 Mass Storage Device with a capacity of 8 GB!!!, with an
unbeliveable low price of under 90$.
It was suspicious at first, of course, so I plugged it in, and the system (Win XP OS)
recognized it, installed the drivers automatically, and reported the capacity of 8 GB!
When I re-connected the device, the system reports that everithing is O.K. but
when I attempted to access the drive reported ” There is no disk in the drive”.
I opened the properties to see the volume information which is reported UNKNOWN.
I could,t format it under Windows, and it’s own disk formatter could’t access the drive too.
If someone had an experience with a drive like this, i coluld use a help.
Or, be carefull if someone offers you a flash drive like this!!!
It may NOT be an authentic SONY product!!!

8. Anonymous | 23/09/05  #

i can get in to my flash disk i tried everything scandisk which didn’t work and it wouldn’t format i’ve also tried some programs on the net to fix the problem “no luck ” if anyone as any ideas email me @ nickerr_@hotmail.com

9. Anonymous | 28/09/05  #

Hey I have a similar problem as nickerr_@hotmail.com

Please if you have a solution, e-mail it to averma@lta.com.fj

10. Anonymous | 29/09/05  #

SONY 8G Model USM8024 appears to be a FAKE. There are loads of these selling on EBAY, but they do not work (atleast with Windows XP Pro) When I contacted SONY support they told me the model was not valid and that the unit was likely a counterfeit. Hope this sways others away so they don’t get burned like I did. Buyer beware !

cheezystix@yahoo.com

11. Catcher | 4/10/05  #

Similar problem as Anonimous mentioned above..I insert it and click on it and it says please insert disk in drive:…properties show 0 bytes and this is a 1GB Mecer minidisc..the blue one.. tried the tools..yo, everything dude mentions I’ve done.. if yougot any ideas on how to repair this hit me at
smi_dla@hotmail.com

12. Anonymous | 13/10/05  #

Same problem to me. Email me pls daniel at 100mb dot ro if you have any sollutions. We got burned, but let`s find a way to repair them. I will search for solutions, and if i`ll have one, i will contact you.

13. Morgan | 13/10/05  #

Here’s a photo of this phony drive:

http://www.feldoncentral.com/forumpics/SonyMicroVault8G.jpg

14. Anonymous | 13/10/05  #

Hi all… just experienced something similar with a sony 8GB microdrive. It seems to worked fine for about a week then just died. Also going to try to resurrect it, cause i knew it worked once….

Dayne
dayne@tnet.com.au

15. Q-Dog | 15/10/05  #

I also had a usb flash drive that gave me a write protected error message when I tried to access it. I tried to format it using windows utilities and also the HP usb storage format tool. Still no luck. I was about to just trash it since it was just 128mb but then I went to the command prompt and formatted it there. Good luck

16. Anonymous | 22/10/05  #

I have a problem with this, i have a 512mb mp3 flash player but can only format it to a max of 49mb, thus losing 9/10 of the space..
Anybody that knows a fix for this(or a third person program)

17. proxy.killer@gmail.com | 25/10/05  #

I have a 512 MB USB Flash Disk but it says its not formatted but when I go to the format screen http://img321.imageshack.us/img321/4830/formatdrive3ji.jpg it says “Unknown Capacity” can anyome help me?

18. Anonymous | 26/10/05  #

Thank you so much! We were desperately trying to recover our corrupted disk! Your info is very helpful.

19. Anonymous | 27/10/05  #

I had the same problem as proxy.killer which I solved by going to control panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management and selecting disk managment.
After that I found my removable drive which hade 486 MB of free space and no file system (it was detected as RAW). I right clicked it and selected somthing like create a partition. After that I just folowed the installer.

20. Anonymous | 27/10/05  #

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WILL REMOVE ALL DATA ON YOUR REMOVABLE DISK!!!!!!!!

21. Anonymous | 9/11/05  #

Thanks for the info about Admin Tools, worked perfectly.
Same deal, 1 gig Sandisk, couldn’t read the capacity, fix it, or format it with windows.
Admin tools = BAM!

22. Anonymous | 15/11/05  #

Admin Tools didn’t work for me. I formatted the hard drive, then removed the device, but when I plugged it back in windows said the device was working properly, but computer manager couldn’t read the drive…Definately a rip off (we bought it in China though, only cost $6)

23. Jayesh Akole | 18/11/05  #

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24. Jayesh Akole | 19/11/05  #

please Help
i m having 256mb pendrive but ater formating it with FAT32 option it is showing just 119MB space so please help me i solving this problem.

25. Anonymous | 19/11/05  #

I also was duped with the 8G Sony drive on eBay. It is as fake as it gets. They are REAL USB drives, cheap 128MB or 512MB drives with a driver that tricks Windows into thinking its 8G. The drive works flawlessly until the maximum storge limit is reached. Then all files added show up as 000.0000000 and FORMAT is the only way to make it usable again.

I filed a formal report to Sony and they confirmed that world wide Sony makes nothing bigger than a 2GB USB Memory Vault. ALL 4G and 8G drives are fake, with fake packaging, manuals, the works…

So quit looking for a “fix” or a way to make the drive bigger, it does not have the space to begin with!

mr_shew@hotmail.com

26. Paulo | 22/11/05  #

Ok that’s all fine if, when you format the capacity of the flash drive is known.

But, in my case when I try to format it, there is no capacity recognized, and when I mount it on the system I receive the message of “Please insert disk into drive ….”.

Is there any possibility to recover from such a case?

27. Anonymous | 7/12/05  #

I have a 512 mb Lexar Jumpdrive. It works well and has not caused any problems. I formatted it with FAT32, and that made it faster.

28. Anonymous | 6/01/06  #

I am Having a 128 Mb Genx Pendrive
The operating system Detects the Pendrive but dose not display KIndly tel me what can be done to restore or repair it
regards
Zafar

29. Anonymous | 20/01/06  #

i have a 1GB scan disk cruzer micro usb device. prob with that device is i am unable to perform any operations. i am unable to write the contents to disk n also i’m unlucky in formatting the device, i tried in all windows n linux operating systems.

O.S’s are able to detect the usb device but are not able to perform any more actions. i tried all the ways to format the disk, control panel >> admin tools >> computer management to DOS format command.

while formatting it display an error at 99% n while writing any contents to disk , error “the request could not be performed because of I/O device error ” gets alerted.

i am least bothered about the data in the disk.

so plz help me how to format the disk n make re-use of it.
reply me at: suman_bathula@yahoo.com

30. Anonymous | 23/01/06  #

I use flash drives/pen drives every day and the only problem I have ever had is with the drivers on an old Win98 machine. I like ClipDrives because they are made in US. I’ve never lost any data or had any problem with them.

31. amanda | 10/04/06  #

Hi there .
well my centrios Mp3 iesent working.
Everytime I try to send music to it
It just says E:/ is not exessable.
and its says something about I/O how do I fix it

32. scott harrison | 23/04/06  #

Hello, my viking flash drive is not read anymore by the computer, can someone assist me in how to fix it?

33. Ghazi | 3/05/06  #

I have Flash disk Named as MyFlash, it is not detecting in any operating system. before it was detecting but after using it for few days suddenly it stopped. i mean it is not atall detecting now. can some one suggest me how to fix this problem

34. Rana | 6/05/06  #

i have a USB 256mb LEXAR pen drive.
it was fine but it stoped working after i copied two large files of flex Sign boards. my PC detect it as unknow device. if there is any solution please any body E-mail me . I will be very thankful for that help.
waiting a nice reply in my E-mail box

plato472@msn.com
take care

35. Shiv | 8/05/06  #

Hi,
I have a 512 MB pen drive cum Mp3 player. since i bought that, i can store upto 240 Mb of datas only. its not allowing me to store beyond that. Once you see the properties, it saying capacity is 488 mb, used space is 243 mb & free space is 245 mb. but there is no files in the pen drive. I have tried formating with fat & fat32, but nothing works…….. can any one help?

36. aizee khattak | 17/05/06  #

hi all i have 8 GB sony flash drive.i formatted it on wrong software now it shows just 31 mb.i have than formatted again by computer option but doesnt work….if any one knows its solution or knows its software tahn plz send me on my email adress…

37. Mehdi | 21/05/06  #

Dear All,

I’ve been using a SanDisk Cruzer Micro flashdisk for 9 months. Just recently it sends a “Device I/O Error” when I try to copy anything to it. It’s still being found by the OS and I can read the data but very slowly. I already tried every solution that is presented here and all failed. however when I formatted the drive frm command prompt it returned an “Invalid media or Track 0 bad” error. does it mean that I should trash it and buy another one? Please some pro give me some suggestions.

Cheers,

Mehdi

38. i.godfrey thompson | 24/05/06  #

i purchased a usb flash drive with mp3 layer with a capacity of 512mb but when i mistakeingly formatted it using windows xp under fat32 i lost almost 250 mb and i have only 235 mb now .please provide me with a solution for my problem.

39. rohit | 25/05/06  #

can any one help me out??/ i ve bought a pen drive (512mb) local brand…while transferring data ,my system hung up and i had to restart my pc…my pc was not detecting this pen drive anymore. once i formatted it, its recognizing it as 256 Mb drive…….can any one help me out ???? i want to retrieve another 256 mb….

40. Daniel | 29/05/06  #

I have an MP4 MP3 player that acts as a USB flash drive. When i try to format it, all i see in the drop down menu is “FAT32″ only, i can see the “FAT.” THis player specifically needs to be formatted in “FAT” mode, not FAT16 or FAT32. How do I format in FAT then?

41. mach5 | 30/05/06  #

WRITE PROTECTED problem
hey u guys. Please, I need ur help here. my flash disk being wite protected by itself. i cannot cut or del files. i have try to format it but no result even from command prompt

42. gechame | 31/05/06  #

I am having a problem with my usb it is 256mb when I bought it but right now it is only working wit 30mb of its capacity if I copy a file greater than this size it will show only the folder or icon of my file but it display the folder size in the property of the usb.I any one who can help me with this pls send me ur advice ,thanks in advance for the help.

43. godfrey | 3/06/06  #

i had a 512 mb flash drive with mp3 player when i formatted using win xp format option i have only 235 mb capacity what could i do

44. Philip | 13/06/06  #

I have a sony maicrovault 2GB USB flash disk, from the first useing it damaged any data copied into , it was formatted FAT, I tried to format it in FAT32, the damaged files became less than before, i tried to san it by file properties/tools/check now, it toke long time formating, when the blue line indicator reached the middle, the home electricity is gone, when i swiched my coputer again and check the flash dick if says:”please insert disk into drive I” and its size became 0 KB , i tried to format it again or using disk managment or the included CD or any program, i faild, coud any one please help me to fix the USB, i just bought it :((

45. Asif | 16/06/06  #

I have a pen drive 1 gb after inserting it in Win xp pro it doesnot shoe in my computer but it does show in device manager in disk management and when the drive letter is changed it does show in my computer as well as it auto pops up for diff options .any help to directly access it without any drive letter change pls help .any microsoft update to rectify pls help.

46. cliff | 19/06/06  #

please help.i formatted my 1 GB mp3 player and now it reads only 119mb.how can i recover the rest of the space

47. Ashenafi | 19/06/06  #

dear sir/madam
it’s an honor to inform you that the information you provided on your site is very special but, i have still problem that you might solve. which is: my flash memory responds unknown device when I plug it. It is GENX 256 MB So I truely need you help.
if you can help please send me a mail by : ashenafi20052000@yahoo.com

48. Ensha | 21/06/06  #

FLASH DRIVE NOT DETECTED BY COMPUTER

Hello. I think i have the same problem as Scott Harrisson, person leaving comment number 32. Computers could’t read my flash drive anymore, it’s an iMax 256mb. My friend thinks it got burned, and i do think too, because it got too hot it scathed my skin as i removed it from the USB port. The desktop did’t read my flash disk in the first place, nor my camera.

I have a one very important question: Is the chance that i can retrieve my data?

Please, please do comment on this. I hope somebody can help me with this.

Thanks so much in advance!

49. howard | 23/06/06  #

i have a siren mp3 512 mb player from china.. i cannot format it..and it always say’s “invalid format, pls reformat the player” ive tried almost everything exept using the disk.. pls hel me..

50. pam | 26/06/06  #

can pen drive be converted to fat32 using win98 converter is it safe. my 1 gb drive of transcend is showing only 969 mb.

51. ahmed | 27/06/06  #

Anybody that knows a fix for this(or a third person program) … I have a sony maicrovault 2GB USB flash disk, from the first useing it damaged any data …
and get 0 byte are there any program to fix that

52. flaw | 29/06/06  #

I have basically the same problem as #37, #41, and #44. I have a 512MB Creative USB flash drive with mp3 player. I made the mistake of formatting it ( FAT system ), then began copying my files, and right now I have 260MB used space, windows recognizes the drive but I can’t write on it or format it again, the mp3 player doesn’t work either so the usb drive is pretty much unusable. Is there a way the problem can be fixed ?

53. chenda | 3/07/06  #

I apologize if i post the wrong topic.

My computer detected the new USB device plugged into it, but the drive doesnt appear in the windows Explorer; my OS is XP.

Please anyone help me list all the possible solution.

Thank u very much.

Best regard.

54. nayan | 5/07/06  #

hi, i hv a sony flash with size 512mb, there was data on the flash which i could not delete so i used the format software which was on the cd that came with the flash disk, but after formatting the flash the size of my flash disk reduced to 64mb!!!! i tried formatting it again but it didnt help. can anyone help me out, plz mail me if anyone has a solution

55. jayson esc | 5/07/06  #

i have a lg 1gb flash drive…
my pc can detect it and and will assign a proper drive letter..but when i try to access the contents on my computer—-it says : Please insert a disk on drive E:
I can’t format it nor open it…can you help me fix it?
please send your replies on jayson.c.escano@gmail.com…..
tnxz guyz

56. Jitesh Jalan | 6/07/06  #

Dear Readers,
i have a 40 gb external USB Data storage drive, which i am using since last 11 months. i found “Device I/O Error” these days, when i tried to copy few files from it. i formatted the device, but problem was still there.

So finally i deleted the existing partition, and created a new partition for my external device.

and now i am happy, as my device is working very fine.

hope it will help some of huys like you, who are in similar trouble.

57. Shandana | 6/07/06  #

I have a kingston datatraveller 256 MB. It worked well fro 5 months but now it has become write protected. I’ve tried to format it but its still write protected and won’t let me format. Doesn’t work on my desktop or laptop either. Please help me.

58. Chris W | 7/07/06  #

The problem with the counterfeit Sony drives is not just the 4&8 GB. My buddy brought back a bunch of 1GB drives from China. They are really 512MB drives. Note that when you reformat, sometimes Windows will clue you in and say after formatting that 512MB is already used space, with 512 free. However when you use the “quick format” check box option, it doesn’t detect it, and says you have 1GB free. You can add data until you reach the halfway mark, then it says “sector not found” or whatever. Clever. Someone needs their ass kicked for this.

59. dplforever | 9/07/06  #

22. Anonymous | November 15th, 2005

Admin Tools didn’t work for me. I formatted the hard drive, then removed the device, but when I plugged it back in windows said the device was working properly, but computer manager couldn’t read the drive…Definately a rip off (we bought it in China though, only cost $6)

And from
chenda | July 3rd, 2006

I apologize if i post the wrong topic.

My computer detected the new USB device plugged into it, but the drive doesnt appear in the windows Explorer; my OS is XP.

Please anyone help me list all the possible solution.

Thank u very much.
Best regard.

Firstival try your USB Flash drive with another Window OS a difference Computer to see it still show on …because your USB Flash drive can be reject by window OS Registry during boot or shutdown and may be you are Accidently try to remove USB Flash drive during that time when your computer hang on so long . In that case only the way is to Fix your problem is Format your new Window OS on your computer :)Good luck :)!

60. kim chann sey ha | 13/07/06  #

my flash has error
i want to fix it. when i open it they show insert disk in to drive F. how can i fix it?

61. Alex | 14/07/06  #

HELP!

I’ve got a 256mb flash player. And I’ve had to format my computer… Before I did that it worked fine.

But now it says that it has “0 byte” of space on it. And it’s not even visible in the admin controls.

I have formatted the flashplayer on another computer and it works fine there..

What shall I do???

Please e-mail me at: wwwcluberect@hotmail.com

62. milind | 18/07/06  #

i have mp4 drive its capacit is 8GB but it is showing only 46mb.i tried to format it in fat & fat32 also it not worked.any one can help me.

63. OLIVER BANDIRA | 20/07/06  #

I am having a problem with my exigo flash disk .I use windows 98 , i downloaded the drivers for win98 , so when i formated using the flash manager , i got an error message disk unfommated , and also delayed error message , whenever i want to save , reduced size to 1mb , i need help guys

64. OLIVER BANDIRA | 20/07/06  #

I have an exigo flash drive 128mb i use win 98 operating system , i downloaded the divers for this flash but ever since my lyfe has never been the same , i formated using the flash manager , there after , the message came up drive not formated do you want to format now, the size reduced to 1mb , now the write and delay error message comes up, nothing can be saved , i am down and out please help me me

65. OLIVER BANDIRA | 20/07/06  #

Hie guys i bought a 128mb flash drive but ever since i downloaded the drives for windows 98 , i had a problem , i formated using the flash manager that comes along with the device driver , then i got flash is not formated do you want to format it now , i formated using win 98 , the size was reduced to 1mb , nothing can be saved on it now , the delay error message on writing appears, when i want to foramt the disk says raw drive . i need help guys i am done and out

66. eyob | 21/07/06  #

hi
mi new digital mp3 player do not apear on my computer folder who can help me with this problem

67. daniel | 24/07/06  #

hi every body who expert with this problem.
I have a problem with my mouth its stop working all of a sudden after that when i pluged out my mouth and insert on other computer the second computer olso stop its working with any mouth what is the problem
pleas help me!

68. shubham | 29/07/06  #

i have sony s-81 digital mp3 player its capacit is 256mb but it is showing only 119mb.i tried to format it in fat & fat32 also it not worked.any one can help me.

69. Trung | 29/07/06  #

Sony Micro Vault 8GB is not true. It made in China and capacity is “Illusive”.

70. diky | 30/07/06  #

i have 8 bg sony usb flash disk, but i had formatted the capacity is 32 mb. i don’t understand, may be any body can help me. plz e-mail

71. c. Batch | 1/08/06  #

I had the same problem. I first tried to reformat the player using Windows.

This did not work for my player. I contacted the manufacturer via their website and they emailed me a program to re-install the firmware. The software for the player was basically corrupted. They sent instructions on how to install the software they sent.

72. Chris Cornish | 4/08/06  #

I was silly enough to believe that I could buy a Sony 8 GB USB pen drive from China for less than $100 and rave about it to my colleagues. I was able to get a techie to waste an hour trying to format it.

The old rule if something sounds to good to be true then it isn’t.

Doesn’t that ring so true.

73. Jeremiah | 5/08/06  #

I thank you sooooooooo much i tried i didn’t think of lookin this up on the internet until now(2 years later) my warranty was over.But thanks a million if this wasn’t free i would pay u lol.But since its free i will leave a big thanks you = D

74. joe | 11/08/06  #

i have 8 bg sony usb flash disk, but i had formatted the capacity is 64 mb. i don’t understand, may be any body can help me. plz e-mail

75. Kerry Rock | 18/08/06  #

My favorite 128 MB USB drive has suddenly become a floppy drive. When inserted into any xp pc, it shows as a 1.44 mb floppy on Explorer and will not accept files in excess of that. However in Disk Management it shows up as a 119 mb FAT healthy active removable drive. If I try to reformat it, it claims that that the volume is not enabled and that the computer should be restarted, but that does not change anything.

What goes?

76. sha | 21/08/06  #

My 512 Mb USB thumb drive suddenly stopped working. When i plug it into windows or mac, they won’t recognise it.
The light on the usb works but the drive doesn’t appear in my computer or under removable disks

77. kjm | 24/08/06  #

I have a SanDisk Micro Cruzer 1gb the older kind with the translucent skins. For some reason I don’t know why but in XP the drive shows up under it’s own letter, but it seems in Windows Explorer you don’t see the capacity and used/free space in the right pane like you do with hard drives. Weird thing is I used to see this info, I don’t know why now the only way to find out the capacity and space left is to right click on it and hit properties. I tried re-formatting it in FAT and FAT32 and it is the same not showing the details.

78. Amy | 29/08/06  #

I have 8G SONY pen drive but cannot store the file. When I try to reformat it, it’s claims unable to format and my pen drive become 0 byte.
Anyone can help me.

79. kingsten | 30/08/06  #

i have bought an 1gb usb pen drive. i wrongly formatted it. now instead of 1gb i have only 230mb. what to do plz help…

80. kingsten | 1/09/06  #

i have bought an usb pen drive of 1gb with mp3 player and by mistake i wrongly formatted it. noe the memory space from 1gb now shows only 250mb. plz help me to bring my drive space again to 1gb.

81. Satyajit | 4/09/06  #

I have 128mb flash disk
I too face a problem as computer fails to recognixe the disk ang vie out he message

insert disk in drive F:

Any body has a solution for this

82. azman | 5/09/06  #

Cannot Format usb Flash drive.error write protect

83. Phil | 6/09/06  #

i have a 1GB scan disk cruzer micro usb device. prob with that device is i am unable to perform any operations. i am unable to write the contents to disk n also i’m unlucky in formatting the device,

O.S’s are able to detect the usb device but are not able to perform any more actions. i tried all the ways to format the disk, control panel >> admin tools >> computer management to DOS format command.

while formatting it display an error at 99% n while writing any contents to disk , error “the request could not be performed because of I/O device error ” gets alerted.

i am least bothered about the data in the disk.

so plz help me how to format the disk n make re-use of it.
reply me at:
philturner2@yahoo.com.au

84. Mussa | 6/09/06  #

I have 1GB sony flash drive but it can only stor up to 10.9mb more than that all the excess data can not be oppened.I tried to format several times but still the problem exist.Can anyone help me to fix the problem.

85. TAHIR | 7/09/06  #

hi,i have usb 2.0(256 mb) and when i m formatted this drive it will formatted it but when i see the property it show me the 188 mb is free and 66 mb is full after formatted and when i trasfer the data of 10mb(for example)it take almost 30 min what can i do plz help me i m wiating for ur reply

86. Neil | 7/09/06  #

I recently had a Crucial Gizmo 128MB flash drive which developed the ‘Please insert disk’ problem after I installed a new HP PSC2355 printer (it had worked perfectly previously). I tried the re-format option mentiond and the drive formatted ok (win XP). I still got the ‘Please insert disk’ problem though. I noticed that when I right clicked on the pen drive in Windows Explorer and selected ‘Explore’ the contents of the next drive down the list were displayed. I then changed the drive letter for the pen drive (right-click my computer > manage > right-click the drive in question > Change Drive Letter and Paths. It has worked ok since then! Note that the drive letter I used was not the next available (I had C: - E:, M: - P:, so I used ‘K:’ for the pen drive. Maybe I was just lucky, but hopefully this might help resolve the problem for someone else.

87. AJULO TITILAYO | 9/09/06  #

I have a flash drive of256MB zbut it’s displayed as 251MB,can someone tell me why? Also, now I cann’t accessed it, it’ s telling me it’s write protected. Looking forward for help. Thank you.

88. Amandeep k Sohal | 10/09/06  #

Hello
its very useful comments but i need to know that when i right click on drive(Sony 1GB)to format it shows “you don’t have sufficient rights to perform operation” and also in case if i delete some file or copy files in drive. I know that there is virus in drive but still how can i format my drive

89. sachin shah | 12/09/06  #

sir, i have taken sony mp4 player of 256 mb but due to formatting it is only showing 118 mb memory tell me something for it

please it is my friend’s

90. I was unable to check for error or format my U.S.B flash disc.itresponds you dont have sufficient right, why? please help. | 15/09/06  #

i have usb2.0 flash disk,i ued it properly for the past one year,however, now it gets a great problem,when i open it the folders/files inside were like 0000…and unopenable,unscanable and undeletable.more over,it says you do not have sufficient right to format, check for error when i tried.so what shal i do?

91. Vara Prasad | 15/09/06  #

Hello Everyone
i had a 512 Mb usb drive
iam trying to load data, or deleting the existing data , it shows an error saying that disk is write protected,
Please help me
Thanks in Advance

92. Zulf | 15/09/06  #

Vara,
your USB drive is ‘write-protected’. to stop this there is:
1. a little switch on your drive whoch you can move
2. software protection which can be removed following the instructions in the software itself.

If that doesn’t help post the make/model of the usb drive pls!

93. Nazir | 15/09/06  #

I have a new 4G Flash Drive. I tried coping files that are more than 2G of data, but no files copied on the 2nd level subfolders after removing the Flash Drive using Flash Unplug Hardware icon AND Plug into another computer. Both PC were using Windows XP. Does any has faced such problem, if so can you suggest how to fix

94. jomal mathew | 17/09/06  #

when i formatted my SOMY TD-11, 512 MB digital MP3/WMA/REC player,its capacity reduced tO 245 MB.initally i could store upto 470 MB but could play only about 250 MB.then i formatted using windows and the capacity reduced.kindly email me any solution at mathewjomal@yahoo.co.in

95. Khurram | 20/09/06  #

I am Having a problem with my 256 mp3 player ! Its not opning! and on Computer is shows I/E error ,i am traying to formet it but when i click on formet.. nothing come!! What should I do?

96. JS | 20/09/06  #

QUICK FORMAT PROBABLY NO SOLUTION

Hello.

As far as I know, a quick format doesn’t format the whole volume (disk, pen), only erases the FAT — that’s why it is quick! I’m thus pretty sure it won’t detect bad sectors.

If you wish to format a volume to detect bad sectors, you must perform a full formating. Isn’t it so?

JS

97. azzie23 | 20/09/06  #

My flash drive stopped displaying in explorer - hardware working but can’t access it. Ran diskmgmt.msc and the drive was displayed but with a drive letter already in use. Changed the drive letter to an unused one and now it appears in explorer.Hope that helps someone.

98. bikash | 24/09/06  #

i have a pen drive.virus attack my pen drive .i want to remove that file which contain but i can’t remove.and format also does not take.waht can i do.so please write me solution about this virus.how to remove it.my antivirus doenot work.what can i do?

99. Morteza | 27/09/06  #

I also was duped with the 8G Sony drive on eBay. It is as fake as it gets. They are REAL USB drives, cheap 128MB or 512MB drives with a driver that tricks Windows into thinking its 8G. The drive works flawlessly until the maximum storge limit is reached. Then all files added show up as 000.0000000 and FORMAT is the only way to make it usable again.

100. Inforisk | 27/09/06  #

For all you people that are having difficulty formatting your flash drives try this HP utility - it has been reported to work with many types of drive and I have used it to fix several broken drives..
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html

101. pushkar | 27/09/06  #

I am doing the project in the USB, i want to know the frame format that USB sends to the PC. Whether it is fixed or variable

102. Nick Sayers | 1/10/06  #

I hav a 200 Gig external hardrive. I recently formatted my computer and now I can’t access the drive it just says that it is unfomatted and offers to format it. I copied all my info onto the drive before the format. Any suggestions?

103. teched | 1/10/06  #

Thank you to ‘inforisk’! I used the HP driver and fixed the flash drive I had inadvertently formatted (forgot to remove it from the machine I was rebuilding) it was my husbands flash, so I am very happy to recover it!

104. Mathuranathan.V | 2/10/06  #

Recently i have used the HP Disk On Key utility to format my USB Drive. It supports FAT,FAT32 and NTFS file systems for formatting. It is a nice utility which can make your USB a bootable one. Tool can be found at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html

105. moncy varghese | 3/10/06  #

some body please help me out,
i have a pen drive with 256mb
memory,i formatted with xp now i have only 119mb
how could i get the lost space back

106. Ennio Lorenzi | 4/10/06  #

Hello,

After hanging in the middle of a copy to my 40GB Toshiba external USB drive, Windows would always prompt me to format it. I did just that (FAT32), also repartitioned, but now the drive reports only a 19GB capacity as opposed to (almost) 40GB as it did previously. How can I solve this issue ?

107. max | 4/10/06  #

i feel the same problem like “insert the disk into drive” with my 8 gb pen drive…. please help me…….!!!!!!

108. Sandra | 7/10/06  #

A year ago I got a HUKE platinum drive, and yesterday, by mistake I tried to use it in a PC with windows 98, I unppluged the memory and when I tried to use it in another PC (windows XP) I got a window asking me to format the device, so I tried and got another windows explaining that windows was unable to format the usb (something like Mauricio said). Is there a way to fix this or my usb memory is DEAD. Help!

109. Manish | 9/10/06  #

Hi guys,
Now I wonder why didn’t I come to this site before.
Well, my situation isn’t really that worst but yesterday I bought a cheap usb flash drive / mp3 player (fake SONY 2GB).
Sometimes it works fine but, here’s what I have noticed while playing around with it.
1) It show 2 partitions, 1st with 1.86 GB and 2nd with 1 MB. 1st can be formatted fine and 2nd gives error.
2) If you copy multiple folders at a time, some files gets corrupted.
3) If you create a new folder manually, it can’t be deleted and there are lots of garbage files inside it.
4) Once, a file is copied fine, it works fine only.
5) Transfer rate is much slower than Transcend (which I used before).

So guys, my recommendation is that, please don’t go for cheap flash drives. You never know what you may losse. Let’s see how long it works and then I am gonna get a flash drive not less than Transcend or Creative.

110. suresh | 16/10/06  #

i have a pen drive with 512mb
memory,i formatted with xp now i have only 119mb
how could i get the lost space bac

111. Stuart | 16/10/06  #

Hi. I bought a 512 mb sony mp3 player/flash drive a week back. I copied some songs to it. Now, i get an error saying “Cannot delete file USBS`0. Cannot find the file specified.Make sure you specified the correct path and file name”

Can someone help me?
Thanx.

112. sarvesh | 16/10/06  #

when i formatted my SOMY TD-11, 1 GB digital MP3/WMA/REC player,its capacity reduced tO 245 MB.initally i could store upto 950 MB but could play only about 250 MB.then i formatted using windows and the capacity reduced.kindly email me any solution at

113. Mat | 17/10/06  #

Hi…
In this week i bought a SONY usm2gev flash drive and connect it to my pc(win XP pro sp2),XP can detect my flash drive but when i copied a movie and run it,it can not play.The SONY software can not detect my flash drive…plz help me to format the flash by another software(win XP also can not solve the problem)…TanX

114. manolis | 23/10/06  #

i have bought a usab flash drive and my pc doesnt see it.i have windows xp service pack 2 and the usb2 drivers installed.the flash drive works on other computers.on my pc the light doesnt switch on.what can i do? please reply me.thanx

115. Raul | 26/10/06  #

when i try to put my usb stick in any of the computers of my university lab it pops a message that says that i don’t have enough privileges to install this device. Since I am not an administrator of the lab how can i make my usb stick work on every computer of the lab.

116. chaz | 28/10/06  #

I had the same problem with my cruzer micro 1 GB, i solved it with the following.

Try right clicking on My Computer, Select Manage,
expand Computer Management and then select Disk Management( in the storage part).
Choose your 1 gig drive,
Delete the partition and make a new one again, i made the partition the same size as the drive, then format it as FAT.

hopefully this should work for you as it did for me,

my drive no reads 973MB but not sure what it read before it corrupted.

chaz

117. evergreen | 29/10/06  #

hello
please i need a solution to my problem,
my sony micro vault 2.0
alway lose datas after been saved

118. Gabe Cy | 30/10/06  #

My flash drive (Lexar 2.0 512Mb) does not show as an icon in ‘My Computer’ when I plug it in to the USB port. However, the flash drive shows a presence in the icon on the Tray at the bottom of the computer. This means that I cannot access the drive. I have to unplug it as normal or an air message appears noting that I should do this. I have many documents on this drive, thus, how can I access it? Thank you for this very important help.

119. SIMIYU | 31/10/06  #

Having problems formatting my flash disk because of the insuffient rights.

120. vanex2k | 2/11/06  #

MP3 MP4 4GB from ebay: files copied get corrupted, I guess they’re FAKES.

they say “do not format the drive”: another reason to think they’re FAKES.

121. mon | 2/11/06  #

hi! im having a problem with my flash disk. everytime i insert it into the USB port, a message pops out that says, “The disk is not Formatted”. so, i format it of course… after that, i can save files etc…. then i removed the device using safe remove, after that, i put it back to the port then there goes the problem again and again… the file system type becomes “RAW” instead of FAT. i hope u could help me with this… TY!

122. nikhil | 4/11/06  #

hi frnds,
i have sansa m230 512 mb mp3 player n by mistake i formatted it using windows(plz never do this). Since then it is not getting detected on my PC.plz help me…..i have the firmware but i cant install it unless my player is detected

123. david | 4/11/06  #

I doubt anyone can help me but maybe someone can. My problem is (i think) different from anyone elses. Upon turning my mp3 player on it says “Error! Reformat Media” - which is fine but whenever I plug the thing into my PC (or any PC … or even a Mac for that matter) the host system freezes up when attempting to access the drive. Therefore it doesn’t appear as a drive. But as soon as I unplug it, everything unfreezes. It wants me to reformat but i can’t because no computer in the world will let me access it!! The only thing i haven’t tried is linux, which i will try soon. any ideas??

124. ANIL | 5/11/06  #

sir , i have sony 8GB pen ,
once i format by “portfree producatio programe v.3.27″ after that it capisty only 250 mb, what i can do,how could i get the lost space, plz help me
I will be very thankful for that help.

125. supu | 6/11/06  #

i have a 1gb sony mp3 player. once i formatted it. and after that i cannot copy more than 350 mb in it. although the proprty show that it has 660 mb free space but whenever i try to copy some file it displays “cannot create directory” message.
plz someone help me fixxing my mp3 player

126. khaled | 6/11/06  #

hi;
when I try to connect my USB to the PC(win xp sp2 installed)nothing appear on the tray neither my computer. I tried to change registry settings and drivers folder security but nothing happened.
please I need your help
thanks a lot

127. Lokendra Rana | 7/11/06  #

i have a pen drive of 126mb , window xp is not able to format it showing ‘Window can not format it’ when i am formating it using dos it showing RAW filr sysstem and requiring /FS switch to complete formating pl help what how i can format it

128. Ronnie Reagan | 11/11/06  #

why is it that the PC recognises the flash disk when i plug it in and does not display its contents?
in he menu options it is recognised as a Removable Disk but when trying to access it, no items are shown
Please help its a new 2GB Sony Vaio Flash disk

129. SomeFooledPeople | 12/11/06  #

I bought sony pendrive and got the same problems. This is crap, dont buy. I�ve paid US$45 and it came from China (Hong Kong), just burned my money!
I find it on ebay, and like the other�s when I have filled it with some files (1.5gb more or less), the files get corrupted, the folder inside the drive looks like 000.00000, and I cant format the pendrive.
Be aware!!

130. Wassim | 12/11/06  #

Hay all i hope some one can help me on this one
i had got an 8G USB memory i kind of messed with it and format it with a program but after i had format it i can only see 250 MB ….
what should i do :S

131. Steve | 13/11/06  #

Just a thnk you to this site for helping out with a PNY Attache 512mb which suddenly became unreadable by XP. Using disk management and reformatting in FAT32 worked great. I’m decent with computers, but it never would have occurred to me to use XP’s own disk management system for the fix. Thanks to all who help out here.

132. emma goligher | 15/11/06  #

Hey recently bought a usb flash mp3 player but when I put it in the comp it says I have to format it. When I say yes or no it doesn’t do anything. Any answers from anyone or should I just through the thing away?

133. Manu | 15/11/06  #

To all unfortunates who were cheated………………(I am one of them..)

If you bought a high capacity flash disk mp3 player and after formatting the size has been reduced, its most likely that u have been cheated by the vendor. The flash chip inside will be of lower size. They modify the firmware to show higher size to the operating system(like 2gb, 8gb etc). Once you format, that modification is somehow gone and it will show the original size. (Less than original size actually, because the firmware takes some space). You can confirm if you open the player and check the flash disk part number.
(s1mp3.org)

I bought 2gb mp3player which showed 2gb when i checked in pc at the shop itself. but once i formatted, it has become 482 mb. i opened it and the flash chip inside is 512 mb. So the best way to check whether it is 2gb is to copy 2gb data at the shop itself.

134. cakey | 16/11/06  #

Hi everyone. I use a Sony 4G Mp3 player (not genuine I guess)
A few things I’ve noticed to make it work properly:
Look in the settings on the player itself and make sure the “online mode” is set to normal (not encrypted or multi drive)
Also, when copying files to them don’t drag folders across (only drag files)
I hope this can help some people

135. Gene Du | 18/11/06  #

have an MP4 MP3 player that acts as a USB flash drive. it is a 2G capacity when I purchase,it was fine at the begining, then the disk show Error, I tried to format it, however it show 0nly 1G in the player, where is the other half went,please help. I format it with FAT and FAT32, both show it has 1G. thanks in advance.

Gene

136. Umesh | 18/11/06  #

My Sony MP4 Digital Player has 2GB capacity. I also confirmed & written almost more than 1 GB data. But when formatted it shows only 477 MB capacity.

What is the problem?

137. Emma | 20/11/06  #

Could any one help me!! I have a 1GB Kingmax Flash drive which has failed to open when I double click the icon. What should I do in order ti fix the problem!! Thanx

138. Sero | 21/11/06  #

I am getting the sama errors like other guys here!

First i could format it …but cannot read what was copied to USB FLASH Sony PEN driver 4GB.
Now i cannot even format it … it’s obvious a fake stuff! It last for two days :))
So we’ve been cheated! No workaround nor solutions … just dump it in the trash!

Brgds,
Sero

139. rashid | 22/11/06  #

I have my genx pen drive 1 gb i am unable to copy any data from the destkop it is displaying write protected.

please help

140. Andy | 22/11/06  #

I’ve tried to format my 1gb sony flash drive and i have this message after formating ‘windows was enable to complete the format’.I also tried Flash/properties/tools/error cheking and still the same message.Some help please!

141. yuli wijaya | 23/11/06  #

I have 512 exigo flash disk.
After i made 2 partitions on exigo flash disk by flash disk manager, partition on set as boot disk, and the second as basic disk. Then i restarted the computer. Soon i found that my computer did not recognized my exigo flash disk. The Removable flash disk icon on windows manager did not appear.
I need help how to fix this. What should i do regarding to this problem?
Thanks

142. De Anti Virus | 24/11/06  #

I am having 1 GB USB Drive refused to Format. How or which step should i follow to format this drive?
sign: De Anti Virus

143. Shepherd Nhongo | 28/11/06  #

I have a usb flash disk 8gig that is being read as 1TB. i can not format it using windows or dos.

Can anyone tell me how i can do this ?

144. Kaushik | 30/11/06  #

All of you guys are reporting problems but no one seems to give a solution!

Well, I have a problem too though -> I formatted my 1Gb USB drive under FAT, it is now showing 512MB. When I try to format it under FAT32, it says “format could not be completed”.

Can anybody give me a good solution to solve this problem?

145. rafnex | 30/11/06  #

i have a sony 8 gb brought abroad and it was delivered by my relative w/o box, manual etc. when my data reached 1gb all data that is written beyond 1gb becomes corrupted it displays as folders with folder names “000000.00000″

please help me fix it!

email me:roy_pamplona@yahoo.com

146. jas | 4/12/06  #

hey i got 4gb sony
cant format nd wont do the partition thing
helpppp if possible

147. bilal sadiq | 4/12/06  #

my flash memory is infectected by virus then after it became off and even it doesnt work as flash memory plz help me !

148. paquitodiaz | 5/12/06  #

my pc hangs when i try to insert my flash disk.. what should i do?

149. rey jo | 6/12/06  #

my sony flash disc that detect my computer but i cannot open it and it requires a insert disc into drive e:

150. Hasan | 11/12/06  #

I use a USB drive to transfer data where I can enjoy MP4/MP3 also but suddenly properties showing that 0 MB available,why?I’m trying to format also but can’t!Can anyone gtve me a solution?

151. Atul | 15/12/06  #

Formatting a flash memory device!!!! I don’t agree with you there. Manufacturers issue strict warnings against formatting flash drives. I once formatted my Sony Micro-Vault and it became unusable. It was only after I reformatted it using a special tool from Sony that it became usable again.

152. http:/www.freeinfoz.com | 19/12/06  #

Its so dangerous to flash USB device. I agree with Atul. It can cause permanent damage to the device. Not that i have personal experience in that, but my friend had.. just my 2 cents.

153. Raman | 23/12/06  #

Dear Friends,
Use firmware updatation, If your usb drive is not excessable or to fix I/O device error. I fix this problem using Firmware updation from software cd pack available with my EM606s mp3 player usb device

154. Kapil Agrawal | 24/12/06  #

I bought a 1GB Sony MP3 + Pen Drive which initally was of 1GB capacity but when i formatted it with windows using FAT32 its capacity reduced to 245MB. How can i restore its Capacity?

155. amit | 1/01/07  #

i have transcend 1 GB pen drive but unfortunately it shown only 240 MBS and cant contain any data when ever i insert in usb it ask to format and after format if ii put some data and then again insert in usb then again it ask for format

so what i do with it for outcome from this trouble

156. subhani | 3/01/07  #

I bought a 1GB Sony MP3 + Pen Drive which initally was of 1GB capacity but when i formatted it with windows using FAT its capacity reduced to 119MB. How can i restore its Capacity?

157. Andrew Pakpahan | 4/01/07  #

I have 512MB Kingston Flash Driver that I can’t use right now.
When I clicked the Removable Disk Icon on My Computer, I go message

“The disk in Drive J: is not formatted
Do you want to format it now?”

When I clicked yes, there was a popup window saying that The Disk in drive J can’t be formatted.

Anyone know the solution?

158. nicky | 4/01/07  #

i formatted my sandisk cruzer micro 1 gb , now the thing doesnot work, it doesnot get formatted again, says ” windows cannot format” , sandisk doesnt provide any help in its website,
some brainy dude come n rescue me

159. Michael Fechter | 7/01/07  #

Re your

For some reason, when I ran this formatting software, it would say the USB drive is not connected.

Had the same problem but was setup up as a Power User in XP. Once I gave myself Administrator rights was no problem - found the drive.

160. JOHN | 7/01/07  #

my pen drive read 108 MB instead of 1G

161. mattz | 7/01/07  #

i want to repair my USB flash drive

162. ACE | 8/01/07  #

Hey I stopped my Dad’s USB flash drive for his company after backing up successfully- now I try to back up and the USB will not let me back up on it …
If anybody has an idea y I would appreciate it.

Thank you
ACE

163. Bhushan | 9/01/07  #

I have MP3/WMA/REC.
I wnat to formay it and reload the software.
Can I get the software.

164. Joinx | 9/01/07  #

Hi!!
I have a usb transcend..Same prob as many..IT has errors or viruses on it..
None is working..scandisk, format etc..none.Sometime when i want to copy a file, there is an error saying file in use by someone..
what should i do..
Please help!

165. Oleg | 13/01/07  #

My porblem Is sometimes when I turn on computer In the morning it say’s “there Is a problem with your USB drive or something” when I reboot again everything Is fine.

166. jo | 15/01/07  #

It worked, thanks! I knew it would be something simple like reformatting and lo and behold your site was googleable. Thanks, you saved my life today, the drive was on loan!

167. Andy G | 16/01/07  #

I have a peak 3 usb pen, 1gb. It worked twice, well almost. First time was a 15kb document (on win 2kpro). Second was a freespire iso image of 658mb. It got to 56mb then stalled. Now it says write protected, on linux, win, dos.
Tried the makers lock / unlock program and formatter, but still no good. Tried the HP formatter (sp27213), same. Now downloading the bigger hp program.
Not holding out much hope, its not even fit to be used as a suppository! Seems like they are all a bit unreliable.

168. khuram | 16/01/07  #

i have a 512MB flash drive of kingston that had become read only due to infected by virus plz if some one have an idea for my send it to my email address waiting

169. prateek | 18/01/07  #

i have recently (in dec 06) purchased a 1Gb usb drive and when i plugged it onto my pc it was not detected there and on my other pc it was detected once but now it is not being detected anywhere, i have tried it on several other pcs but it it not working. my other usb drives are working perfectly fine on my pc. kindly help!!!!!
thank you
PRATEEK

170. Babak | 18/01/07  #

Hi, I Have a 512M flash disk which worked properly on my computer till yesterday, but now windows tells me “USB device not recognized!”. I test my disk driver on other computers and it works as before. thank you for helping me.

171. rohit | 20/01/07  #

I have purchased a new Transcend 1GB JetFlash pendrive.When I attach it to my usb ,my PC get hanged. There is alternative but to restart my computer.
Can anyone help me out?I am using USB 2.0 to PCI converter on PIII with 128 MB ram & 550MHz processor

172. aruna | 20/01/07  #

i have a 1GB usb drive but when i plugged it the pc shows found new hardware but the flash drive option doesnot come.what should i do
kindly help me
thanks

173. abu khalil | 20/01/07  #

when i play my mp3 genx flashdisk so long, its got hanging like “zeeett” or short..its took a long time..when i format and then i try to set in some of mp3 songs, its gone..what can i do to repair that trouble..please help me

174. Ram | 21/01/07  #

I want to open the flash memory but i couldn,t. how could i?
plz help me.

175. nahganom | 24/01/07  #

hi,
i just bought a flash drive. i installed the driver and went to format it. however, just as the load bar is nearly complete a message appears saying that “windows can not complete format” how do i fix this?

176. Fahim | 25/01/07  #

I bought a 512Mb Sony MP3 + Pen Drive which initally was of 512Mb capacity but when i formatted it with windows using FAT its capacity reduced to 119MB. How can i restore its Capacity?

177. marlon | 28/01/07  #

pls,can you help me to repair my flash memory 128mb. thnks.

178. loi | 30/01/07  #

hi,
i have 2 flashdisk which is not functioning now(a 512 and 256). I accedentally restarts my computer without removing them on my pc. When the pc turns on, my flashdisks did not light anymore and it pc don’t detect them either.

Someone please help me, maybe i can help your problem too…

Thanks

179. ranjit | 2/02/07  #

can anyone tell me why on some computers my pen drive doesnt open by double click on icon so i have to choose explore option whereas in some computers it simply get open by double click.. please tell me the funda !!

180. Jeanna | 3/02/07  #

With a Sandisk Cruzer Freedom 1.0 Gig drive, I started getting ‘the drive is not formatted’ errors, and it would consistently fail to format no matter how I did it. The drive worked fine on other computers.

The same computer was having the problem with several other flash drives, but NOT any problem with my Memorex 1Gig drive which automatically assigned drive letter K (rather than F that all the others used.)

I found that reassigning the drive letter to something other than F (I chose drive I) fixed the problem! In Windows XP, this can be easily done by right-clicking ‘My Computer’, choosing ‘Manage’, then click ‘Disk Management’ under storage — right click your flash drive in the lower right corner (be sure to choose the right one) and choose ‘change drive letter and paths’

Just a tip in case it helps anyone else

181. deepinder | 4/02/07  #

i have a sony 4gb micro vault i think its fake for a few months it worked fine but now when i enter it in usb and try to open it it gives me an message “please insert disk in drive g:”
please help

182. Deb | 7/02/07  #

hey, great! I had a pesky USB Attache 1GB drive with files that had long character filled names and I could not delete! I needed to in order to save some files to take home tonight. I fiddled with it forever, then saw this website and did a quick format. Took 1 second! Gone! Yea!!! Thank you so much for providing helpful information like that!

183. Raghu | 12/02/07  #

I am having a problem with my flash disk .I use windows 2000 pro … The light on the usb works but the drive doesn’t appear in my computer.

184. Bknob | 13/02/07  #

My sony vaio 4Gb USB 2.0 pen drive is not recognized anymore by XP just after formatting in FAT32. HELP!!!!!

185. Shepherd Nhongo | 19/02/07  #

I have relied on linux RedHat Advancd Server 4.0 in solving flash disk formatting. I have formatted the USB in ext3 format similar to FAT system.

Hope you will find it useful…

Try any other LINUX it should be ok…

Give me feedback

186. anonymous | 20/02/07  #

My USB is stuffed, i kept on trying to delete a corrupt file + Folder but it did not work. i even tried reformatting it but it won’t finish reformatting. so now i can’t even access my USB. Know any SOLUTIONS

187. srinivasa raju | 22/02/07  #

I purchased SONY NS-11 512MB mp3 player last month.After formating the player its memory came down to 119 MB tothat of 512 MB, i dont know how to get it back to 512MB, its still working with a memory of 119MB,
hope any one of you have a solution to this.if you have a solution please mail me.
i am satisfied wit its battery life and sound quality but where the hell is memory!!!
its easy to use and download songs and delete songs. the manual book is useless.
you have to scratch ur brain a lot to understand it. but once you understand the opperations, its very easy to use. i have also managed a software to compress the mp3 songs to 1/5th of its memory, a 5MB song can be easily converted to 1MB.
This gave me some relief after I lost the memory of my player. still i can store around 100 songs in my player.

188. Pramod Shetty | 22/02/07  #

I bought a 1GB Sony MP3 + Pen Drive which is of 1GB capacity but when i insert in my PC it shows 118 MB adn doesnt store data more than that. How can i restore its Capacity?

189. ratna | 1/03/07  #

I bought a 1GB Pen Drive which is of 1GB capacity but when i insert in my PC it shows 118 MB adn doesnt store data more than that. How can i restore its Capacity?

190. Nishith | 1/03/07  #

i have a SONY 4gb usb flash drive
when i insert it into the port,it recognizes tat a flash drive has been inserted
but on trying to open the flash drive,
it just says
‘PLEASE INSERT A DRIVE IN G:’
wat do i do
please help

191. Hemant | 2/03/07  #

i have lost memory in my 2GB pen drive,
now only 245mb space left, how can i fix error? can anyone help me

192. Arindam Chakravorty | 8/03/07  #

I had bought a 2 GB Pen Drive of IBM. It was showing 1.95 GB capacity and working fine for data upto 300 MB or so. When I tried to copy 1 GB of data, the data got corrupted and could not be read. Further, the copied files also could not be deleted. I then formatted the pen drive (quick format - from Win XP). Now my system is not recognising the disk (showing “there is no disk”). Please help.

193. amanuel | 10/03/07  #

My USB flash coudn’t be formated it says write protected error and could not be formated
please is there any solution can anyone help me

194. chris | 12/03/07  #

I have a sony micro vault 4gb which was given to me, i went to transfer the my data from my old pen drive to it. All the data on my old pen drive and the sony became corrupt. resulting in all my school being lost. Now every time i save my work to the sony tem files also become corrupt can someone please tell what the problem may be. Thanks!

195. oli | 12/03/07  #

I wasn’t able to format my pen drive(DIKOM 4 Gb)then I tried this hp utility
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html
and I resolved my problem. I strongly recommend it to format or fix a flawed flash drive.

196. Aiko | 12/03/07  #

I bought a SONY Micro Vault flash drive with a capacity of 1 GB and my Win XP OS recognized it, installed the drivers automatically. The system reports that flash drive was O.K. and ready for use. The next day when I attempted to access the flash drive, windows gave the following message “Pleas insert a disk into drive E:” Drive E: is the drive I inserted my flash drive. Please kindly help with this problem as I need to recover my valuable data in the flash drive.
Thanks
Aiko

197. shahid | 13/03/07  #

i have 1 GB FLASH DISK. It have 2 partition. one is password protected. but i forget get the password. now i cant get the data from it. plz help me how can i retrive the data.

198. saad | 13/03/07  #

i wan to format my pen drive 256mb.but i am not able to do it coz there is an error it has raw fs

199. clarck | 16/03/07  #

I bought a 4G Kaser Jumbo Drive USB over one month ago at a best buy store. When I want to use it these days, I found the USB can not be identified by the computers. I really want to know whether I should crash it or try to repair it.

200. bhaskar | 16/03/07  #

i wan to format my mp3 player 256mb.but i am not able to do it coz there is an error it has raw fs

201. Vipul Singh | 18/03/07  #

i am using 512 mb kingston pendrive but it show only 16 mb total space and it also shows RAW system file it does not format too. Please send me some information to coorect my pendrive.

202. chaszy | 23/03/07  #

i also have this 8gig flash drive … too bad were not that hightech to invent this kind of flash drive..

203. fidel | 25/03/07  #

feel the same problem like “insert the disk into drive” with my 2 gb pen drive…. please help me…….!!!!!!

204. Sallam | 26/03/07  #

I have a mesaage in my MP3 Genx
” Error! reformat Media ”
please help me
Thanks
God bless U

205. Sohil | 27/03/07  #

i have sony USB MP3 player with 512Mb,
but it will show only 119 Mb ,

so, help me to recover lost space,
please suggest me some tips…..

206. Tester | 27/03/07  #

I have a USB 1GB
After a short time using it. Now, cannot format it, the size becomes 16MB
Pls help
Regard

207. Mrityunjay Prasad Srivastava | 30/03/07  #

I am not able to delete any file from my pen drive i am getting the comment that the drive is write protected how to remove write protection plese help me and send me the solution to my email id please

208. j | 30/03/07  #

i am borrowing an old fujitsu laptop…CD drive is broken, floppy drive broken, wont read USB flash drive. tried downloading device driver, still says cant find driver…please help!

209. mohammad | 31/03/07  #

when i want to format my mp3 player, when it comes to 99% it will be stoped.and windows give this message”widows unable to complete the format”
what do i have to do?
thanks

210. Toan | 1/04/07  #

I have bought a Sony Mp3 Player.
Capacity is 1GB. After i format it, it’s size becomes 128MB.
Can you help me ? Pls.Thx

211. rajkumar | 4/04/07  #

hai,

i m having sony 2gb pendrive with mp3 player and fm. now i got virus in my pendrive, i deleted t virus, bt if i copy sum mp3 songs in pendrive, it get stored bt while hearing in pendrive my drive gets restart. i want to format it. i want to know whether i can format it or not, bcos it has mp3 player features and fm features. pls help me

212. uncutest | 5/04/07  #

My problem was about a wrong reformat with bad parameters to use it with partiton magic, so my 4GB USB pen drive now it’s show me 1024gb yes a 1TB unformattable and unusable please someon e heard about?

213. salem | 7/04/07  #

When trying to open my flash memory it gave me a message:

“the drive g is not formated;
Do you want to format it now?”

and i dont know how to retreive my data

please help me,,,,,

214. Eillbar | 8/04/07  #

I had the same problem regarding the usb memory stick ending up as RAW. I inserted it into the pc the opened disk management,scrolled down to the stick (K) right clicked & selected partition, and it formatted by itself. I hope this helps someone

215. Santhosh | 11/04/07  #

Hello,
my pen drive is kingston data traveller 1gb. when i insert the pen drive into any system, system hangs. System recovers only wen i take out the pen drive. please tell me wat to do?

216. Milimo | 12/04/07  #

I have a 4GB Sony Flash drive that says its write protected,but has no switch to remove write protection.please help

217. Rahul | 13/04/07  #

I have a sony’s Digital Mp4 player of 2 Gb capacity which acts as a USB flash drive. when i connected it to my pc it showed the drive needs to be formatted when i formatted the drive it shows its capacity only 470 MB . what should I do

218. jogr crazy | 16/04/07  #

I have 4gig jogr flash of which was given to me without the password. How do I reformat. When I attempt to reformat with xp home it only shows 32mb space to reformt. Lock MFC application has the flash drive locked. Can anyone help?

219. RamS | 16/04/07  #

hi all, anyone can help me regarding the below issue….

My computer is not detecting the new USB device plugged into it( bought last week), but old drivers which are using since long time are working properly. my OS is XP. i checked the New USB drive with another system and is working fine. when i connect the new device to my system the power light is turned on. and nothing is showing in mycomputer.

Please anyone help me ……
Thank u very much.

Regards
Rams

220. Toni | 18/04/07  #

Hi, I have A-data V-disk 1 Gb flash drive, when I plug it in PC it says that isn’t formated when i start formating it says that the flash drive is write protected, but there is no switch on it for removing write protection is there some software so I can turn of that protection and then to format the flash drive. I don’t care about the data lost. I tryed varius ways for formating but everyone give me the same result that flash drive is write protected
THANK YOU

221. Mazi | 24/04/07  #

i tried ti format my flash drive but to no avail. so whats the big fuss, so ihad to visit the shop for a new one.

222. $alim | 25/04/07  #

i have ibm pen drive, 256 mb.
its morethan 2 yrs old.
now recently when i formatted it suddenly its capacity was reduced to 65 mb. do any body hav a soln for this?????

223. atmane | 1/05/07  #

thanks for all;
i have an usb SONY 256 mb with mp3 reader and FM and…
there is 6 month when it lost capacity it becomes 118 mb and i still work with it.
but now it’s worse because I have data in the memory but it’s nor detected in any pc. i need my data i don’t know what to do.

it works (the radio FM, and I listen to the mp3 in it ) but it’s bot detected to copy my data or to add or modify an other.

224. Jennifer | 2/05/07  #

my mp3/mp4 player keeps coming up with disk error and I cannot add songs to it anymore. I was thinking about formatting it, but the file system is RAW not FAT or FAT32….so what do I do now?

225. abhijit | 4/05/07  #

hey buddy thanksss a lot, i had this shit virus that was not even allowing me to format the drive through windows normal format command. i used the cd provided with the drive to format the drive using its software, its working fine now. cheers

226. pratik | 6/05/07  #

i used sony micro vault usb 2.0 pen drive (1 GB). once i fomat it. it lost all memory and don’t saw any icon of pen drive when i plug it. please help me?

227. Manjunath | 6/05/07  #

My Mp3 size is 2GB but its showing 230 M.B Only what is its solution

228. Jess@le | 14/05/07  #

When i plug my flash memory (AData 4Gb) i can’t see the content (folders and files), the windows explorer show me that: “Removable disk”, then when i click in this item the system show me a dialog box with th