kingston pendrive problem

beholder · 27 Dec 2009

Yeah it's strange to me too but the drivers are up to date...

Qdos · 27 Dec 2009

It's far more likely to boil down to a poor quality PSU than an OS generated USB over-volting fault that fries flash drives whenever they're plugged in; if it were the OS then these forums would be brimming with such complaints

Adrian · 27 Dec 2009

I fail to understand how you mean the pendrive broke, are you meaning it malfunctioned? Or its physically destroyed? Software cannot destroy physical hardware unless its a virus designed to cut voltage, flash voltage and so on.
Another factor maybe the pendrives you purchased are from a bad batch that were flawed from the factory. I have a 4 gig pendrive inserted into a 64 bit machine this very minute with no errors. I have a suggestion for you. If you purchase another flash drive make it a different brand, shut your system completely off, insert the pendrive and spool up your system and see what happens.

Regards,
Adrian

beholder · 28 Dec 2009

I meant broke as in stopped working and will not ever work again. I don't know if it's a matter of voltages as you suggest or not. Personally I believe there was some crap done with the MBR or something like that that penrives have.
I've had this pendrive for over a year now and used it with many computers and systems and it was all fine...
Well anyway I guess it's not a common issue cause if it were there should be more posts like these. All that I know is that me and my friend lost some pendrives and flashdisks after plugging them to W7. Maybe it's a coincidence...

kingston pendrive problem

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