OK guys..first to first
Hello m8s,
Eventhough this is an old thread I want to give some input on it.
The Sandisk problem when you plug in your pen drive in XP:
a.- The green led will be on
b.- XP will recognize the pen drive and assign a drive letter to it
c.- You get a media error where XP ask you to insert a disk
Before you do anything, dont even try to format, or repartioning your pen drive. First step is to recover the data in there. Yes, you data would still there even though it seems an invalid media error.
So to recover your data, before you do anything else, there are good programs out there (but dont even try to use the one that sandisk webpage provide in their support section...it is worthless as all the technical support there)
The program I use to recover the data was Stellar Phoenix FAT and NTFS ver 2.1... I use this program to recover delete data and now it works for even losing partition. However this program wont fix your partition table problems.
Now, after recover your data, it wont be wise to use any software out there to repartition your pen drive. It would wisely to repair your partition table and then reformat your pen drive. For this part, I would like to know if anyone has any good tools for repairing partions tables and logical drive assigment
Anyway, these were my 2 cents for the community
Sincerely,
RG