Ok so:

• There i was doing fine. having used my Verbatim Store'n'Go for a good year with absolutly NO problems what so ever at my home computer. I'm editing a LARGE video in sony vegas and i just finish the major project. i go to file>render as... and save the file to my memory pen. it is just about to finish... when the *du-dun* noise is heard meaning my memory pen has come out. but i look to my right and it is still there like it always has been but the light is out on it. hhmm.
• the *di-ding* sound is then heard meaning it has just gone back in but yet agen i have bot touched it. I open the so called 'saved' video and sure enough windows media player opens but crashes almost instanly and i'm there for the next 5 minutes trying to close it and i eventually get my computer back to working order. i then notice that it says my memory pen is in but the light is not on on it. so i take it out and put the pen back in and it says "installing new hardware" i'm like what?!
• from that moment on that is all it does. i plug it in. the *di-*ding* sound is heard. Drive D comes up in computer but when i click on it it says "please insert drive" and the light is not on on the memory pen.
  PLEASE HELP!! all my files are on that memory pen. Not that i want them, but i NEED them!

PLEASE THANK YOU SOO MUCH IN ADVANCE! what has happened? what can i do to get my files off?! PLEASE
thank you again! I will do all i can to assist you. Thank you
Alex Taylor

Anyone THERE? I've been waiting over a week... help much appriciated please! thank you

I did this a few times on a corrupt memory card. I reformatted it with the same file system (if its FAT32 reformat it as FAT32) and used Recuva to retrieve all files. Hope this works for you.

HI WinXPert THANK YOU alot for the reply!
But how am i supposed to re format it if it just says enter disk in drive D ?
thank you. i tried it in windows 7 and it just does not get recognised AT ALL so that dint help. XP was used before. Any futher help MUCH APPRICIATED. Thanks

Wait!! And doesn't one need to try to recover BEFORE the reformat???? As the reformat may erase all the data???

Hi taylor8294

You might look through See Troubleshoot: Windows Won't Recognize Your USB Hard Drive

Especially trying
> To test it on all ports
> Different computer
> Boot into Knoppix and test it

But it might boil down to the flash drive just failed

Hi LookinAround,
I thought the same thing yes - this surely is correct!
I figured this must have been what WinXPert meant.

Thank you very much for that LookinAround. I have already tried it in all ports. No luck unfortunetly. As said i have tried this my windows 7 PC where it is not recognized AT ALL. And I have tried on my XP Laptop where it is recognized, but just says Insert Disk Into Drive whatever. Hhhmm :/
I am fearing this may have happened too yes
Thank You For You help again! Cheers,
Taylor8294