Corrupt flash drive

Kwerty

Kwerty

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Hi,

This week I got my Kingston 16GB USB3.0 flash disk (this).

I was watching a movie off it and the movie just froze. I closed the player and tried to open it up again but it said the movie was corrupt. I clicked on the other things of the drive and they were also corrupt. Then I plugged it into my desktop but it said that the drive was corrupt and I needed to format it. So I did. It got about 1/2 way and it gave me an error (can't remember exactly what it said). I tried again but I kept getting errors.

I did a checkdisk (on the now unformatted drive -- "raw" as Windows calls it) and after scanning and me saying yes fix my drive it said it was unable to fix because there isn't enough space (probably because it's unformatted, right?)

I started formatting it through command line (because it would lag up windows explorer if I tried it like that) and it gets stuck at 45%...

Any ideas?
Thanks
 
I had similar issues with my Supertalent Pico flashdrive. I sent mine back to Wootware (where I bought it) and they performed tests, which confirmed what I told them and then I replaced it with an Adata flashdrive and I haven't had any issues since.

You can run hdtune to perform tests on it, but I suppose it's sort of useless when only the first 40% works.
 
howardb said:
@OP - where did you purchase it?
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The OP posted a Rebeltech link, so I do hope that it was from Rebeltech and at the robots.
If he bought it at the robots, then he can just toss it away.
 
Take it back to the reputable dealer. If it was from an informal seller then your recourse will be to not purchase from them again.

Regards

Tim
 
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