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Problems with jumpdrive...


Question Posted Monday January 12 2009, 1:29 pm

I have a 1Gb jumpdrive... It worked like a champ for over a year...

but...

I get this message: "The disk in drive G is not formatted. Format now?"

So, I click "Yes", format now...
And, what do-you-know: "The disk cannot be formatted"....

I've tryed to format about 10 times now!! On like 3 different computers!!

If anyone could help it would be awesome.


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theymos answered Tuesday January 13 2009, 4:00 am:
Try using this program:
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Also, try the command line version of format. It might give your more information about why it failed. Go to start, run (or type WinKey+R). Type this and press ok:
cmd
A black box will come up. Type this into the black box, replacing S: with the letter of your flash drive:
format S: /FS:FAT32

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scrwdlsr666 answered Monday January 12 2009, 6:20 pm:
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you have probably tried this already but maybe your doing something wrong, or you overlooked something. If it isnt very old or hasnt been damaged I am not sure. Just remember formatting clears the drive, so keep the files backed up on something like google documents, or a friends computer even.

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