Hello,
I just started having problems with my 16 GB Kingston Datatraveler USB thumb drive. The drive is around 4 years old and was working fine until yesterday when I transferred some videos to it (from my Windows 7 PC), right clicked the drive in Windows Explorer and clicked eject. I then plugged the drive into my Sony Blu-ray player hoping to play the videos but got an error from the player that the drive was unrecognized. When I plugged the USB drive back into my PC, it recognized it but only as a 49 meg drive. Disk management lists the drive as Disc 7, Removable, 14.46 GB, Online, with 3 partitions which are listed as (L
49 MB NTFS, Healthy (primary partition), the 2nd partition as 99 MB, Healthy (EFI system partition) with no drive letter and the 3rd partition as 14.32 GB unallocated. When I right clicked the unallocated space, the only clickable options I see are Properties and Help, all the others are grayed out and can't be clicked. I also changed the Removal Policy a couple of times but that didn't help.
I attached the same drive to my Windows 7 laptop and was having the same problems. I'm wondering what the problem might be and if there's any way to get this drive working again so I can access the unallocated space? I know thumb drives are inexpensive but I'd still like to be able to use this drive if I can. Thanks for any info you all can provide!
I just started having problems with my 16 GB Kingston Datatraveler USB thumb drive. The drive is around 4 years old and was working fine until yesterday when I transferred some videos to it (from my Windows 7 PC), right clicked the drive in Windows Explorer and clicked eject. I then plugged the drive into my Sony Blu-ray player hoping to play the videos but got an error from the player that the drive was unrecognized. When I plugged the USB drive back into my PC, it recognized it but only as a 49 meg drive. Disk management lists the drive as Disc 7, Removable, 14.46 GB, Online, with 3 partitions which are listed as (L
49 MB NTFS, Healthy (primary partition), the 2nd partition as 99 MB, Healthy (EFI system partition) with no drive letter and the 3rd partition as 14.32 GB unallocated. When I right clicked the unallocated space, the only clickable options I see are Properties and Help, all the others are grayed out and can't be clicked. I also changed the Removal Policy a couple of times but that didn't help.I attached the same drive to my Windows 7 laptop and was having the same problems. I'm wondering what the problem might be and if there's any way to get this drive working again so I can access the unallocated space? I know thumb drives are inexpensive but I'd still like to be able to use this drive if I can. Thanks for any info you all can provide!
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Proffessional 64-biti 712 GB tape
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Dell XPS
- OS
- Windows 7 Proffessional 64-bit
- CPU
- i 7
- Memory
- 12 GB tape
