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[sYn]
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 Posted: Fri, 28th Dec 2007 18:45 Post subject: USB Stick MBR Death |
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My memory stick recently died, I can't format it using windows or killdisk. Killdisk does allow me to view the data on the disk (not that I care, just some crap I can lose, I just want to save the disk itself), so it seems this is not a hardware fault.
The issue seems to be related to the MBR/Boot blocks of the drive, but I can't seem to find a solution for fixing it. Any thoughts would be great!
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Dec 2007 19:14 Post subject: |
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how big is it? capacity wise
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Dec 2007 20:26 Post subject: |
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2Gb, I've now tried re-writing the MBR manually but had no luck. I keep getting device I/O errors which simply confuse me. I'm guessing the thing is just dead, maybe a number of damaged sectors are causing the whole thing to just not work.
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Dec 2007 20:40 Post subject: |
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so much trouble over 10 euro lol
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Dec 2007 21:45 Post subject: |
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| Mortibus wrote: | | so much trouble over 10 euro lol |
If you have nothing useful to say in a thread, don't post.
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Dec 2007 21:48 Post subject: |
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| [sYn] wrote: | | Mortibus wrote: | | so much trouble over 10 euro lol |
If you have nothing useful to say in a thread, don't post. |
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Dec 2007 00:22 Post subject: |
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what kinda brand of USB stick is it ? you know producer ,serial number ,etc.
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Dec 2007 01:35 Post subject: |
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Would Hirens BootCD work for a USB drive?
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Dec 2007 11:35 Post subject: |
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there have been plenty of 2 gb sticks that have been only 1 gb, but show up as 2 gb.
maybe you got one of these...?!
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Dec 2007 13:22 Post subject: |
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Meh, I give up on the thing. The only reason I cared is because I wanted to use it for something RIGHT THEN, I might as well save myself the trouble now and buy a new one. Still, it is an odd situation, not sure what caused it to die as I have barely used it since I bought the thing.
Just to note, it died after using it to play movies on my 360, so be warned there could be an issue here (although its more likely that the stick just needed to die anyway)..
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Dec 2007 14:17 Post subject: |
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| [sYn] wrote: | | If you have nothing useful to say in a thread, don't post. |
i have nothing useful to say in this thread today
yes
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Dec 2007 14:46 Post subject: |
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| deelix wrote: | maybe there is a reason you can chose to disconnect it in Windows  |
Nah, as long as you don't drag it out when something is transfering or otherwise, you're fine. |
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