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Don't laugh!| geek_julieandcasper | March 21, 2008, 12:32 pm | #1 | | Don't laugh! My hubby decided to partition his new 8 Gig flash drive, then decided part way through he really didn't want to and yanked it out. So now we have a flash drive with a 1 Gig partition and NOTHING ELSE. I've tried about three partitioning programs and all of them can only see the 1 G section and don't see the other stuffed up partition at all and Partition magic doesn't even see the drive. Reformatting doesn't help as it only formats the 1g partition. Admin tool's disk management also only sees the drive as a 1G drive. He has no managment software for the flash drive either. (presumably it was there before he partitioned it?) Googling isn't helping me any. Any ideas people? No such thing as fdisk on xp. Anybody know can I totally wipe the little bugger somehow? |
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| | geek_julieandcasper | March 21, 2008, 12:33 pm | #2 | | If it helps it's an 8 Gig DSE flash drive. :P | | geek_angeladena | March 21, 2008, 12:40 pm | #3 | | The flash drive itself must be defective just take it back and get a replacement see how that goes(tho ill keep the yanking it out to myself:) | | geek_sighkick | March 21, 2008, 12:40 pm | #4 | | You need to delete that one gig partition to leave you with 8Gb of free space which you can then create one partition and format. Suggest FAT32 may be the way to go for that Flash Drive. Use something basic like FDisk. | | geek_angeladena | March 21, 2008, 12:43 pm | #5 | | I just assumed they already tried that but keep getting the same 1gig report | | geek_flewy | March 21, 2008, 12:46 pm | #6 | | Assumption is the root of all evil. | | geek_julieandcasper | March 21, 2008, 12:49 pm | #7 | | Delete partition is greyed out and as far as I know there is no fdisk for xp? | | geek_maugrim | March 21, 2008, 12:50 pm | #8 | | Try one of the miriad of boot disks out there with partition managers. something like ultimate boot cd might have something. | | geek_deodar | March 21, 2008, 12:52 pm | #9 | | ROTFLMAO. Trying hard not to honest #1.Maybe he
could Ghost the drive with a name
like that? | | geek_r.g.nixon | March 21, 2008, 12:58 pm | #10 | | Stuffed it? I could be wrong, but I think you can physically damage flash drives by disconnecting them while they are in use. | | geek_julieandcasper | March 21, 2008, 1:00 pm | #11 | | Could be stuffed some software says it's a perfectly working flash drive (all 1 Gig of it) and others just give an error with no options to do anything. And I did check the package to make sure it was really an 8 Gig, lol plus it's labeled as such in device manager so it is. | | geek_julieandcasper | March 21, 2008, 1:02 pm | #12 | | Oh and then there's the software that doesn't see the drive at all... | | geek_julieandcasper | March 21, 2008, 1:07 pm | #13 | | Yep I think it's stuffed. | | geek_pyro_sniper2002 | March 21, 2008, 1:14 pm | #14 | | You dont need FDISK Right click on my computer, go to manage, then disk management. | | geek_gyrogearloose | March 21, 2008, 1:17 pm | #15 | | Also, possibly the USB port on the computer I have seen windows mark down the status of USB ports where it detected that something went wrong. See Microsoft kb articles 133240 and 310575. This means that reconnecting the device on the same USB port won't give the expected result. I would suggest rebooting, checking the device manager (and if anything is marked with an 'X' then delete all the USB devices, then reboot to allow Windows to re-detect the installed hardware), and also try a different USB port (but don't go yanking the thing out until you have gone through the 'Safely Remove Hardware' process) | | geek_julieandcasper | March 21, 2008, 1:25 pm | #16 | | Tried that already... "Right click on my computer, go to manage, then disk management." I already tried that. It shows a single 1G drive and will not allow me to select delete partition. Will try that, and give those a read gryro, ta. | | geek_julieandcasper | March 21, 2008, 1:26 pm | #17 | | Should mention as well, getting the same results with the drive on two different lap tops, his and mine. But will read the articles. :) | | geek_swivel | March 21, 2008, 1:40 pm | #18 | | #1... I'd say you have stuffed it. As they are a cheap brand, they cant handle that sort of PEBKAC workout | | geek_julieandcasper | March 21, 2008, 2:04 pm | #19 | | Lol I agree, it's stuffed. I've checked the device manager, the drivers and done everything I think I can. I give up. | | geek_angeladena | March 21, 2008, 8:04 pm | #20 | | Try booting your pc with the flashdrive plugged in,or try installing firmware for it from dse site,i mean worth another bash huh? never give up!! | | geek_angeladena | March 21, 2008, 8:05 pm | #21 | | #6... Hehe | | Leave your comment: | |
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