flash drive won't open

[bob-o]

One of my flash drives appears in the my computer folder as a disk drive (F
and won't open, while another works fine and appears as a removeable disk
(F. Any clues?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "bob-o" <[email protected]>

| One of my flash drives appears in the my computer folder as a disk drive (F
| and won't open, while another works fine and appears as a removeable disk
(F:. Any clues?

Is it formatted ?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

One of my flash drives appears in the my computer folder as a disk drive
(F
and won't open, while another works fine and appears as a removeable disk
(F. Any clues?

By Flash drive, do you mean USB thumb-type drives?

If so, you should be aware that these do have a habit of suddenly and
irretriveably failing. You can't rely on these for backup or storage for
this reason. They should be regarded only as a convenient tool for moving
files that do exist elsewhere.

HTH
-pkj