Two dead flash drives?

[smarteyeball]

My dad picked up 3 jetflash JF V30 4Gb flash drives while on a trip (they were cheap ) However only one of the three drives work.

He gave them to me to look at and sure enough, two appear to be dead.

Drive one : no power light, not even recognized.

Drive two : Recognized, driver installs, is assigned a drive letter but is inaccessible. "Please insert a disk into Removable disk". It doesn't appear in in disk management either. So I can't re-format it.

Drive Three: Works as it should.

(BTW, I've tried the sticks in two desktops and a laptop in both 7 and Vista. Same results)

I don't hold out much hope for drive one, but from others experiences, is it likely that I can get drive two operational?

Or should I just give it up as a dead stick and stop wasting my time with it?

 

[johngalt]

Try using a *nix live CD / DVD and see if they can mount in there - if they can (the one without power is doubtful) then try formatting it there....

 

[smarteyeball]

thanks mate, I'll give that a go now.

EDIT:

No go. Tried a couple of live cds as well as installed opensuse. Drives weren't even detected, let alone mountable. The working drive did. 2/3 DOA rate is high enough for me to not recommend this brand/model.

On the plus side, I finally got around to making opensuse bootable again

 

[johngalt]

See? Side projects rock....

As for that model being bad - I'd contact the manufacturer and see about getting replacements. I am sure if they were cheap that there is a reason (such as this) for them being cheap....

 

[Joan Archer]

Even so they should still work cheap or not. :huh:

 

[smarteyeball]

Exactly Joan

Unfortunately contacting transcend isn;t going to help as they have a replacement policy for the U.S and Canada, but it's local resellers everywhere else. (Not flying/driving 700+km for a $12 stick )

And yes, side projects do rock. Very bl**dy handy too

 

[limneos]

Hello...

about drive two: You said Disk Management doesn't recognize it.

have you tried diskpart? I think it handles drives in a tougher way.

on elevated cmd:

diskpart {enter}

diskpart> list disk

diskpart> select disk 1 (or your usb disk number, if you see it listed)

diskpart> clean (please make sure you got the right disk number b4 doing this)

diskpart> create partition primary

diskpart> select partition 1

diskpart> format fs=ntfs quick

diskpart> assign

diskpart> exit

 

[darkassain]

thanks mate, I'll give that a go now.

EDIT:

No go. Tried a couple of live cds as well as installed opensuse. Drives weren't even detected, let alone mountable. The working drive did. 2/3 DOA rate is high enough for me to not recommend this brand/model.

On the plus side, I finally got around to making opensuse bootable again

LMAO yay OpenSuSe!!!

Hello...

about drive two: You said Disk Management doesn't recognize it.

have you tried diskpart? I think it handles drives in a tougher way.

on elevated cmd:

diskpart {enter}

diskpart> list disk

diskpart> select disk 1 (or your usb disk number, if you see it listed)

diskpart> clean (please make sure you got the right disk number b4 doing this)

diskpart> create partition primary

diskpart> select partition 1

diskpart> format fs=ntfs quick

diskpart> assign

diskpart> exit

hello limneos

since the drives didnt work in linux i doubt they will work in win...:huh:

 

[limneos]

He said Windows recogznizes it and assigns a drive letter. that's something to work with...
I've had similar problems, especially with USB drives that were partitioned in more than one partition...diskpart did the trick. It was just a thought anyway.

He could also try to install the multi-USB-partitions driver to see if it has such issues (If the usb stick is partitioned to more than one partition, windows might fail to recognize it properly until you've forced-installed a specific driver that supports this function)...

 

[darkassain]

He said Windows recogznizes it and assigns a drive letter. that's something to work with...
I've had similar problems, especially with USB drives that were partitioned in more than one partition...diskpart did the trick. It was just a thought anyway.

He could also try to install the multi-USB-partitions driver to see if it has such issues (If the usb stick is partitioned to more than one partition, windows might fail to recognize it properly until you've forced-installed a specific driver that supports this function)...

For more info about the above, please ask here in this post.
I have a 16GB USB with 3 partitions, which boots and installs or runs Win732,Win764, Gparted,WinXp English,Winxp Greek, Backtrack 3, ntpasswd and another 12 OS/apps...

ohh i see what you mean....

i had a external HDD (also two flash, 4 and 8gb respectively and a 500gb) and it would not read it in xp vista and linux.....
even spinrite found it but with huge errors starting in the 1st sector and after 3 days running continously and getting to 100th sector i gave up....

i have a 500gb with 4 8gb partition (same as you with Ubuntu, Backtrack, and of course OpenSuSe would put ntpasswd but that i have it as a dvd...lol)
yay for backtrack too!!!

 

[limneos]

I recently fixed for a client a 60Gb usb 2.5" ide hdd that was crashing the system whenever you plugged it in! Gparted waited for ever to recognize and after that failed to fix...

I used diskpart (!) to clean it up (delete all partitions, took some time to complete) , then I created a 5 GB partition which I never formatted , just to occupy the free space, and with the rest of the space I created another partition of 55Gb. It appears that the first 5GB or some sector inbetween was causing the problem.Now the guy has a fully functional disk , except 5GB smaller...

 

[limneos]

yay for backtrack too!!!

Wep in 5 mins, I've also had wpa2 successes , tested in networks around the neighbourhood

 

[darkassain]

I recently fixed for a client a 60Gb usb 2.5" ide hdd that was crashing the system whenever you plugged it in! Gparted waited for ever to recognize and after that failed to fix...

I used diskpart (!) to clean it up (delete all partitions, took some time to complete) , then I created a 5 GB partition which I never formatted , just to occupy the free space, and with the rest of the space I created another partition of 55Gb. It appears that the first 5GB or some sector inbetween was causing the problem.Now the guy has a fully functional disk , except 5GB smaller...

i see the thing is nothing (also tried gparted and would only regconize the the usb-sata bridge though...) would read it except spinrite (which read it for some reason....:huh

i would have broken into the case but that would void my warranty (as more i thought that it was the the usb to SATA bridge...)
so i just returned it and got a complete new one (diferent usb-sata chip and HDD)
and its been working great (spinrited once before it got data and worked..)

Wep in 5 mins, I've also had wpa2 successes , tested in networks around the neighbourhood

lmao...
atheros chip?

i only buy atheros chips for all my wireless needs....lol

 

[limneos]

Atheros on Asus EEEpc

of course, wpa2 needs passwd dict attack, but I shouldn't go further, that should be on a different thread...and/or forum!

 

[darkassain]

Atheros on Asus EEEpc

of course, wpa2 needs passwd dict attack, but I shouldn't go further, that should be on a different thread...and/or forum!

i can only trust atheros with this....

of course wpa2 brute force is almost impossible...

have you tried the any of the rainbow tables??
just asking...lol

 

[limneos]

i can only trust atheros with this....

of course wpa2 brute force is almost impossible...

have you tried the any of the rainbow tables??
just asking...lol

Nope, haven't gone there..
I actually never thought u could get a pass with brute force...except if it was 1234 or helloworld...I don't know. In my cases, I got lucky , they were nickthegreek and maria1989john
But I don't think, esp in greece where they would use greek words with english characters ("greeklish") that any bf could crack a strong pass this way... go crack "thalassakaiaeras" (sea and air) .........

 

[smarteyeball]

Thanks for the tip limneos, but it's a no go. It fails at clean. Worth a try though





(maybe I should yell at it in greeklish? lol )

of course wpa2 brute force is almost impossible...
l

It doesn't stop my neighbor from trying crack mine

 

[darkassain]

Nope, haven't gone there..
I actually never thought u could get a pass with brute force...except if it was 1234 or helloworld...I don't know. In my cases, I got lucky , they were nickthegreek and maria1989john
But I don't think, esp in greece where they would use greek words with english characters ("greeklish") that any bf could crack a strong pass this way... go crack "thalassakaiaeras" (sea and air) .........

well what i meant is doing it offline and working with a few tesla cards (or ps3's [remember the md5 certificate crack?] or a RISC/ARM or GPU supercomputer of your choice) is possible (only WPA2 (TKIP) not CCMP/AES)

WPA2-CCMP (really AES) is almost impossibly impossible to brute force

It doesn't stop my neighbor from trying crack mine

which one though WPA or WPA2

TKIP or CCMP/AES?

 

[smarteyeball]

WPA2 CCMP.

I'm not a 100% sure he's tried, but there have been extended periods of WLAN light activity remarkably similar to repeated log on attempts.

Either way he hasn't succeeded

 

[darkassain]

WPA2 CCMP.

I'm not a 100% sure he's tried, but there have been extended periods of WLAN light activity remarkably similar to repeated log on attempts.

Either way he hasn't succeeded

oh there is no way with the current tech to accomplish this....

(at least alone)

he would have to have either an array of PS3's (gotta love those cell processors[ ALOT OF THEM]) or a supercompter...lol

actually if you get a router disconnects then yes you have an attacker...