A Corrupted Flashdrive.

waynegohl said:
ha ha ha yeah write something that a stupid person like me will understand please. thanks for the link and info i will look at it now. the funny thing is that the flashdrive has not been in my pc for months and now when i need it it is corrupted. just out of curiosity, we spoke about storing stuff on external drives etc would something like this also affect an external drive that has been standing for long?
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Its weird that it's corrupted. solid-state memory (such as flash drives) are way less susceptible to external interference than hard drives. Windows usually reports them as corrupted when you dont unmount (i.e. the "safely remove" function) the drive before unplugging it. So when you write data to an external, always make sure to "safely remove" it in windows before unplugging.
 
aaah ha you just hit on something. almost all if not all my external gadgets will not "safely remove" that might have something to do with it. So like i said this flashdrive has nt been used for a few months so maybe the problem is in my pc which is corrupting my other stuff?
 
Well, if you explicitly specify for them to "safely remove" and wait 2 or 3 sec, it should work fine. Only way it wouldnt is if you had some bug or malware which prevented that and I'm guessing it's the malware from the flash drive which I mentioned earlier (keeps the file in use, windows wont remove until it's unlocked). Try and get rid of that, and you'll most likely have it solved.
 
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waynegohl said:
the programmes i scan my pc with have never detected anything.
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Most won't. (Secret: Anti-virus programs are useless nowadays). It's a bit of a long process to explain, which I unfortunately don't have the time for, so the best I can recommend is some googling or if some other forumite takes over. I'll write a guide if there's enough demand once I get back to research in slaapstad.
 
inoculate another pc with panda usb vaccine, and try in there. looks like an autorun virus/worm. make sure the other pc has decent antivirus protection as well. i use eset. kaspersky avg all good.
 
UnUnOctium said:
Most won't. (Secret: Anti-virus programs are useless nowadays). It's a bit of a long process to explain, which I unfortunately don't have the time for, so the best I can recommend is some googling or if some other forumite takes over. I'll write a guide if there's enough demand once I get back to research in slaapstad.
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thanks man and sorry for keeping you up. i will look into the info you gave me. much appreciated indeed.
 
auriga1000 said:
inoculate another pc with panda usb vaccine, and try in there. looks like an autorun virus/worm. make sure the other pc has decent antivirus protection as well. i use eset. kaspersky avg all good.
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cool thanks man i will checkout those in a few minutes. I have a friend who uses kaspersky but for some reason his wife does not like it.
 
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