USB stick

[garyB]

i was given a USB stick as a gift and it came with driver software. I
wasnt concentrating when plugged it in (could just run on XP as plug
and play - and by mistake i formatted it with the Windows 98 software
it came with. now the computer wont even recognise the memory stick at
all. is there any way i can reverse this?

 

[Nishi]

Now from what you have mentioned you installed the software which was
compatible with Win 98. I would say go to device manager and see if you have
to install any additional drivers. If this does not work on your PC, try
inserting the USB key into another PC and see if it works.

Nishi

 

[garyB]

Now from what you have mentioned you installed the software which was
compatible with Win 98. I would say go to device manager and see if you have
to install any additional drivers. If this does not work on your PC, try
inserting theUSBkey into another PC and see if it works.

Nishi






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thanks for response Nishi. i have tried both methods and no luck. it
was working for a second when i plugged it in and then for some silly
reason i thought i would put in the driver/format installation disk. I
wasnt thinking and just installed. then after i took out the USB stick
i i tried to reinsert and the computer does not even recognise it as
connected. the usb ports are fine as i have checked those. i have
rebooted etc. i think it would have worked if i had not formatted it.
i think i have accidentally formatted it for windows 98 and now xp
will not recognise it. maybe something to do with the partition. any
help would be appreciated

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

So its never listed in DevMgr?

I would pull it from USB port, restart, restart, plug it in, hold ur
breath & kill any hardware wizard that pops up. I'm trying to get
it in DevMgr with NO driver then do a driver search from there.

HTH-Larry

thanks for response Nishi. i have tried both methods and no luck. it
was working for a second when i plugged it in and then for some silly
reason i thought i would put in the driver/format installation disk. I
wasnt thinking and just installed. then after i took out the USB stick
i i tried to reinsert and the computer does not even recognise it as
connected. the usb ports are fine as i have checked those. i have
rebooted etc. i think it would have worked if i had not formatted it.
i think i have accidentally formatted it for windows 98 and now xp
will not recognise it. maybe something to do with the partition. any
help would be appreciated

Any advice is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

 

[C.Joseph Drayton]

i was given a USB stick as a gift and it came with driver software. I
wasnt concentrating when plugged it in (could just run on XP as plug
and play - and by mistake i formatted it with the Windows 98 software
it came with. now the computer wont even recognise the memory stick at
all. is there any way i can reverse this?

Hi Gary,

First thing, the stick, did the packaging say that it had U3 on it?
If id did, then I can tell you from past experience that your
problem lies there. The easy solution is to go to the manufacturers
web site and download the U3 removal tool. It is VERY important that
you use the manufacturers removal tool. Most other removal tools
won't do anything if it doesn't recognize the device a few will, and
could cause problems. Once it is running, it will tell you that no
U3 device has been found. Plug in the stick and it will warn you
that you will lose all data. Tell it okay and go from there. You
will now have a clean stick that can be formatted and run. Just as a
precaution, I would probably do a roll-back of my USB drivers to
assure that the drivers on the computer are ones that you KNOW work
properly. You might want to think about devices with U3 on it. The
first U3 stick I bought was back in September of last year and I
really liked the convenience of U3. I had some PDF I wanted to
print. I took it to a FedExKinkos and plugged it into their Apple
Mac graphics workstation. It totally crashed there system. The next
day they told me it took them a couple of hours to restore the Mac.
After that I downloaded the U3 removal tool and used it. Since I
like the SanDisk Microcruzers, the first thing out of the package I
run the U3 removal tool. U3 is a great idea, unfortunately it can
cause strange results under different OSes. U3 will actually not
crash some version of Mac OS yet will mess up other versions. If you
have a clean stick formatted as FAT32 you can basically plug it into
anything with no problem.

If your device is not a U3 device, then I think Nishi had a good
idea. I would first take the stick to another WinXP machine and plug
it in. Do not use any software disk that may have come with it.

If that computer recognizes the stick, I would immediately go to
computer management and format it. If the stick is 2GB or less, I
would format it as FAT32. If the stick is 2GB or larger, I would
format it as NTFS.

I would then take the stick and reconnect it to the computer that
you had originally tried the stick in. It should then work.