Help Needed € Anyone ever have a USB Flash Drive die on them? I'm trying
to find out how safe/stable they are.



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Entity Dr. ''Q'' spoke thus:

> Help Needed € Anyone ever have a USB Flash Drive die on them? I'm trying
> to find out how safe/stable they are.
Never had any problem with any of mine. Except to lose them, which is the
most likely end of life scenario.

-- Gnarlie

"Dr. ''Q''" wrote:
>
> Help Needed € Anyone ever have a USB Flash Drive die on them? I'm trying
> to find out how safe/stable they are.

Never had any trouble with them, except on a Mac. Pulled one out
without dismounting it, and now it's dead, unusable, unrepairable,
apparently.

Lisa

Lisa Horton <Lisa091704@lisahorton.net> wrote:

> "Dr. ''Q''" wrote:
> >
> > Help Needed € Anyone ever have a USB Flash Drive die on them? I'm trying
> > to find out how safe/stable they are.
>
> Never had any trouble with them, except on a Mac. Pulled one out
> without dismounting it, and now it's dead, unusable, unrepairable,
> apparently.

I had exactly the same thing happen to one I used on a Windows XP system
that hibernated at an inconvenient moment. It still shows up as a
removable drive when I plug it in now, but with no 'disk' inserted. It's
acting a lot like a hard disk with no partitions defined.

On 1/30/05 7:47 PM, in article aranders-3001052047260001@192.168.1.103,
"Alan Anderson" <aranders@insightbb.com> wrote:

> Lisa Horton <Lisa091704@lisahorton.net> wrote:
>
>> "Dr. ''Q''" wrote:
>>>
>>> Help Needed € Anyone ever have a USB Flash Drive die on them? I'm trying
>>> to find out how safe/stable they are.
>>
>> Never had any trouble with them, except on a Mac. Pulled one out
>> without dismounting it, and now it's dead, unusable, unrepairable,
>> apparently.
>
> I had exactly the same thing happen to one I used on a Windows XP system
> that hibernated at an inconvenient moment. It still shows up as a
> removable drive when I plug it in now, but with no 'disk' inserted. It's
> acting a lot like a hard disk with no partitions defined.


Have you looked at it in Drive Management?
--
Brian Ehni

On 1/30/05 8:47 PM, in article aranders-3001052047260001@192.168.1.103,
"Alan Anderson" <aranders@insightbb.com> wrote:

> Lisa Horton <Lisa091704@lisahorton.net> wrote:
>
>> "Dr. ''Q''" wrote:
>>>
>>> Help Needed € Anyone ever have a USB Flash Drive die on them? I'm trying
>>> to find out how safe/stable they are.
>>
>> Never had any trouble with them, except on a Mac. Pulled one out
>> without dismounting it, and now it's dead, unusable, unrepairable,
>> apparently.
>
> I had exactly the same thing happen to one I used on a Windows XP system
> that hibernated at an inconvenient moment. It still shows up as a
> removable drive when I plug it in now, but with no 'disk' inserted. It's
> acting a lot like a hard disk with no partitions defined.

I messed one up the same way but it was fine after I reformatted it.
Failure to dismount it probably corrupted the volume information.

- Mike

"M. Pender" wrote:
>
> On 1/30/05 8:47 PM, in article aranders-3001052047260001@192.168.1.103,
> "Alan Anderson" <aranders@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> > Lisa Horton <Lisa091704@lisahorton.net> wrote:
> >
> >> "Dr. ''Q''" wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Help Needed € Anyone ever have a USB Flash Drive die on them? I'm trying
> >>> to find out how safe/stable they are.
> >>
> >> Never had any trouble with them, except on a Mac. Pulled one out
> >> without dismounting it, and now it's dead, unusable, unrepairable,
> >> apparently.
> >
> > I had exactly the same thing happen to one I used on a Windows XP system
> > that hibernated at an inconvenient moment. It still shows up as a
> > removable drive when I plug it in now, but with no 'disk' inserted. It's
> > acting a lot like a hard disk with no partitions defined.
>
> I messed one up the same way but it was fine after I reformatted it.
> Failure to dismount it probably corrupted the volume information.

I think you are probably correct about the cause. But I've been unable
to format the drive on any system since, even using more advanced disk
tools.

Lisa