Flash Drives

[wintertime]

When my new flash drive was emptied of info my computer refused to recognise it anymore.Is there any other way to load it again apart from windows computer?Any ideas guys?

 

[Ice-PS]

Do you use the "safe remove" next to the clock in the taskbar or are you pulling the stick without safe remove?

 

[wintertime]

usb

Thanks lads.It was a small USB stick and I may have just pulled it instead of safely removing.It has been formatted but now will not be noticed by computer.Not the end of the world but an annoying mistake.

 

[wintertime]

Flash Drive

Thanks RockNLol.I will try that later.The computer formatted the drive but then did not work.Thanks again for your advice.
Yes it shows up in disk management as healthy(primary partition) and file systen is RAW and says it is 100% free.the computer says it needs to be formatted but it will not do that.I wonder if it can be loaded with data from another source other than a computer to get it started again.

 

[wintertime]

Flash Drive

Thanks RockNLol.
I downloaded that and followed your instructions,changed to NTFS but although it recognised it still no go on computer.It still wants to format it and fails.I could not change the type from Logical to Primary which could make a difference.So this wizard and disk management see it but not windows.I think I will give it up as a bad job and be more careful iin the future.Thanks again for your help.

 

[wintertime]

Flash drive

It is now showing "Bad Disc".It must be truly damaged as I have tried all your brilliant tips to no avail.It is no big deal but it would have been nice to solve the problem.Many thanks for your imput anyway and I will keep these tips handy for future use.It may well help others who read this post.It is always handy to have advice when these problems occur.Keep up the good work.

 

[wintertime]

Flash drive

How true.Not a lot to lose.Thanks again for all your help.