kingston pendrive problem

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I`ve got a problem with Kingston 8Gb pendrive. I plug it in at home (Windows 7) and it works fine. When I plug it in at work (W7 as well), I cannot copy some files. From what I see it stucks at 1.5Gb and when I try to copy more files (regardless of file size) it says that the device is full. Any ideas?

 

[torrentg]

Try to format it as NTFS and use it like that instead.

 

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It says that the device cannot be formated because it is write protected o_0? Wtf?

 

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Any ideas anyone...?

 

[Jonathan_King]

Try clicking "Reset Device defaults" on the Format screen.
Also try entering the following into a command prompt:
diskpart
list disk
select disk # (be deadly sure it' the right disk!)
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit
exit

Thanks for the simple instructions, Stu.

 

[TGSoldier]

Try Low level formatting it.

BTW, where did you get this pen drive from?

 

[rsvr85]

Do you have any software installed on it that was pre-packaged?

 

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No prepackaged software. I`ve tried the low format and event consulted with the kingston support - it seems that my pendrive is dead now. How weird that it died after plugging it into W7...
Anyway I guess this case is solved, I'm on to buy a new drive :/

 

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A word of warning to all of you: my friend had the same case and lost his pen as well. I've tried another pendrive I had (which was pretty old so I wouldn't mind if it broke) and guess what... it broke too. I'm going to be VERY VERY reluctant to plug any pendrives or flashes into W7 after that.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Try updating your USB drivers. It seems stange to me that Windows could break the drives like that.

 

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

 

[Qdos]

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 :shock:

 

[Adrian]

Pendrive

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

 

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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...