Sandisk mini cruzer USB pendrive not working

[eveneser]

Hi guys. I bought a Sandisk mini cruzer 512 pendrive 3 months ago. It was OK but 2 weeks ago it stopped working in any computer I plugged it in. The light would come on for 3 seconds or so and then it would turn off and it's not recognized by the PC at all. I suspect a pendrive hardware problem. I have read a lot of posts giving instructions to reformat, reboot and so on but none of these solutions work if your PC doesn't physically detect the pendrive. Before I throw the pen into the garbage can (and with it the 67$ it took from my pocket!), does anyone know if the pendrive could be brought back to life in any way?

 

[RealBlackStuff]

W98SE computers are quite good for reformatting them in FAT32.
Get the W98SE driver from the Sandisk website.

 

[Tribal-Phoenix]

i had a similar problem , windows said my usb drive had a defect, but it was working on other computers, so i got angrry and threw away my computer*. p.s jsut laugged it in different usb slots and delted some keys from registry.