Flash Drive Problem!!!!

[larrynet]

Hi, my name is Larry R. And I am a manager of your star store. Unfortunetly my flash drive is not working it says

Do you want to format now.

Now I have always had no problem with my flash drive until now. I tried a recovery but the product I tried wants me to buy it. And I don't have that kind of money and this is a emergency because my power point presentation for today is on there plz someone help.

Sandisk Cruzer 1 gb
Microsoft xp

 

[AlbertLionheart]

I take it that the drive works on 1 machine but not on another?
You need to tell us a bit more about the circumstances before we can help - such as
operating systems on the machines?
errors showing in device manager?
other USB devices working properly or not?
USB 2 or not?
drive format (FAT or NTFS)?
hope we can do this in time!

 

[larrynet]

I have windows xp.
The drive does not work on any machine
Not sure how to edit device manager.
other usb devices are fine.

Drive format Fat I gues

 

[AlbertLionheart]

I think the drive has failed - this happens far too often. Sorry.

 

[larrynet]

Wait, thats all you can tell me. Theres no way to recover it omg.

 

[AlbertLionheart]

If you cannot read it on the machine that wrote it, it is the most likely conclusion I'm afraid.

 

[SNGX1275]

Flash drives are terrible ideas for holding the only copy of a file. They fail all the time, sometimes you can get them to work again, but the data that was on is toast.

I'd boot up off a live linux cd just to see if that can read it, I've had a drive (and seen on here a few times) where XP couldn't deal with it anymore but Windows 98 or Linux could.

 

[larrynet]

Isn't there some kind of software I can download it to retreive my information.

 

[AlbertLionheart]

Your best bet is try what SNGX1275 suggested - either a Win98SE or Linux machine might give you access to the drive. I don't know of anything that will access the drive if your system does not even 'see' it.

 

[Tedster]

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