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Geek Culture / Need Help on My Flash Drive :(

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alex 1337
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Posted: 27th May 2007 03:51
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Recently, for some uknown reason, my flash drive crashed, leaving me with a folder called "m" which I can not open and a file titled "le". The le file can not be open but it says that it is a 1.6 gb file when my flash drive can only hold 512 mb. There is no file extension for le. I have a scandisk micro with 512 mb. I also ried recovery programs but I get like 5000 files. Can anyone help me recover the files. The flashdrive still says that there is 50 mb left just as it was when the drive was normal. I think the files are somewher, but I just can not find them. Any help would be appreciated.
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indi
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Posted: 27th May 2007 04:27
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If you have removed the drive without safely removing the hardware, chances are its corrupted.
format the drive and be careful next time.

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alex 1337
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Posted: 28th May 2007 05:45
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I can not recover the files?
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indi
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Posted: 28th May 2007 06:43
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search for flash disk recovery on google.
there are lots of paid for options, as stated above however if its corrupted without safe removal its not so good.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 28th May 2007 07:31
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That's a bummer. For the longest time I would just pull mine out of the USB port without safely removing it from Windows first, well, I lost a bit of data, wasn't a big deal, since I had just copied it on, but it was annoying. I always safely remove my USB memory devices now.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 28th May 2007 15:24
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Just wait for the LED to stop pulsing. Unless you bought a retarded U3 System or something stupid like that, in which case you have to close all the dumb utilities it launches.


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heartbone
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Posted: 28th May 2007 15:25
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Try this PC Inspector File Recovery

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David R
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Posted: 28th May 2007 15:49 Edited at: 28th May 2007 15:49
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If you're running on Vista, or have a machine that runs Vista, you can plug the device back in, and Windows will automatically fix whatever filesystem faults are on it - this was a godsend when my MP3 player driver messed up bad, and I had the same problem

(Would randomly turn the player on an off, without "safe removal" and caused corruption, I had files supposedly modified in 2019 - luckily Windows fixed it perfectly)


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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 28th May 2007 18:38
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Is it possible you reached the limit of the drive? I do remember reading that a flash drive can only perform x (some odd million) actions and it then becomes useless.

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alex 1337
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Posted: 28th May 2007 21:44
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Well I used a recovery program and I retrieved over 5000 files when I only had like 20 I needed. I found some of them but they were a bit out of date. I am waiting for a call from scandisk before I format it.
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