In davef typed on Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:43:21 -0700:
I have a 16GB memory stick that has stopped responding
correctly. When I go to it in the tree it asks me to insert a
disk,(just like an empty CD drive). When I look at it in device
manager, it shows up as a USBest drive instead of a USB drive.
Is there any way I can recover the data in the memory?
Have you tried another computer? As it could be just one computer having
the problem.
I know of one guy who can wear out cheap flash drives in two weeks. I
have no idea how he does this, but he must be constantly writing to it
all of the time. I've never had one go bad on me yet. But I have never
trusted them (although even those ten years old are still working for
me), so I always sync it to another flash drive or something. As what is
the odds of another flash drive or hard drive going south at the same
time?
Say you didn't pull it out without using eject or remove hardware did
you? I used to do this and I never had a problem except once. Files
changed to weird characters and real files started disappearing really
fast. I had it synced, so I didn't lose anything. So I reformatted it
and it has been great ever since and I always use remove or eject
nowadays.
