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Pulled out too soon

Archibald Nixon

Archibald Nixon

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My FLASHDRIVE, ya pervy trogs! I accidentally clicked another drive for "safely remove hardware" and pulled out a 32gb drive while it was still being read, or written on, or utilized somehow. Now I can't read it at all. I can barely get Windows XP to acknowledge that it exists, but I can't browse, scan or even defrag it.

Anyone else ever have this happen? I have enough relatively current backups so it's not exactly a death-blow, but I'll have lost about a week's worth of shit.
 
Heh... my gf asked me this same question the other day. Told her exactly what happened to you. To be honest, I don't know how to fix your problem.

What's the name brand? Did it have a warranty or a service plan?

I have a Verbatim 32g pro. Comes with a cool service package.
 
Heh... my gf asked me this same question the other day. Told her exactly what happened to you. To be honest, I don't know how to fix your problem.

What's the name brand? Did it have a warranty or a service plan?

I have a Verbatim 32g pro. Comes with a cool service package.
 
It's a Lexar JumpDrive TwistTurn --likely past warranty, but I'm more interested in recovering the data than making it workable again. Thanks for the tip, though...I'll look into it.

Sidebar: Was it you who mentioned using a reformatted iPod as an external hard drive? If you use it as such, what kind of read/write speeds do you get out of it?
 
I killed an external HDD last year almost the same way. While moving my mouse around, I accidentally knocked my speaker over on to my external HDD which was laying on the floor. The whole thing went dead. After a while, I started getting the "Click of Death" and thats when I knew it was all over. I tried everything. I even tried freezing it hoping that this would get it working long enough for me to copy everything over to a new drive.

No Dice...

I lost tons of porn very important documents that day, a date that I will live in Infamy! :(
 
Archibald Nixon said:
Sidebar: Was it you who mentioned using a reformatted iPod as an external hard drive? If you use it as such, what kind of read/write speeds do you get out of it?
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Yeah, that was me. iPods (depending on the model) are awesome HDDs. There's tons of literature all over the place on how to accomplish it. It's easier to do from a mac, using disk utility, but I'm sure you can find workarounds for a windows/unix machine.

As for the read/write speeds, you'll have to check the aforementioned literature. I have no idea. It's pretty fast tho, considering most newer gens of iPods/iPhones are designed for file transfer using USB2. I have a 30gb fifth Gen classic and it works pretty well when I need it.
 
Might try this -
go into device manager and look for "unknown device" and remove it. Then unplug your flash drive, restart your computer, and plug your flash drive back in. Do any typical reinstall of drivers for new hardware.

Only other thing I know to try is reformat the flash drive - although that would lose all your data on the drive.

Good luck.
 
Sounds like the file table went bad somehow. This has happened to me with a few flash drives. Most flash drives are pieces of shit.

Anyway, you could try data recovery software that just scans the raw data on a drive looking for certain file signatures. Try PhotoRec, it be free (and recovers more than just Photos).
 
Further said:
Sounds like the file table went bad somehow. This has happened to me with a few flash drives. Most flash drives are pieces of shit.

Anyway, you could try data recovery software that just scans the raw data on a drive looking for certain file signatures. Try PhotoRec, it be free (and recovers more than just Photos).
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Yeah listin to him becoz he the gawd of tech
 
Further said:
Sounds like the file table went bad somehow. This has happened to me with a few flash drives. Most flash drives are pieces of shit.

Anyway, you could try data recovery software that just scans the raw data on a drive looking for certain file signatures. Try PhotoRec, it be free (and recovers more than just Photos).
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Tried this; hit a roadblock when the only drives that it offered for scanning were ones that didn't even exist on my computer (mine vary, but go up to N at most; this was offering me S, T, Z, etc and I'm not on a network.) I'll give it another shot later...try and see if I can't get it to zero in on the designation w/ the damaged flashdrive.

As it is, I went and purchased a much better model, a 32gb Kingston DataTraveler 200. Not too expensive, much more substantial housing, very fast, and comes with password-protect. This pleases me.
 
Something similar happened to me once with a flash drive containing all my holiday pics. I found a very good software to restore the files, though, and lost only 2 out of 450.

Removing the drive while reading it causes the data to get scrambled and the programme I found (freeware, btw) was able to reassemble the bits and even retrieved some old photos long deleted and several times overwritten.

I can't recall atm what that software was called. I'll have it on my old PC. I'll have a look tomorrow after work and see if it is XP compatible. If it is, I'll send you a link.

In the meantime, please do by no means reformat the drive. If you do, the data is almost impossible to restore.
 
The Call Of Nature said:
you're welcome :) Did it work?
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Finally got around to it...no, it didn't do a thing. I must've really fried the little fucker because, like before, it won't even recognize it or the drive it's on. Which is weird, because I can at least get the drive letter to come up on the My Computer window, as well as the flashdrive's brand name if I right-click on Safely Remove Hardware. So Windows, at least, can see it, but virtually nothing else: says it has no capacity, can't read, defrag or format it (irritatingly, a "please insert drive" card pops up when you try these and I keep pointing at the other window and screaming "It's RIGHT THE FUCK THERE!!!")

So as of this writing it's about as useful as tits on a bull.
 
ouch! I have the same problem with a SD card from my camera. My card appears to be mechanically damaged. Perhaps the same is the case with your flashdrive.
 
starguard said:
I killed an external HDD last year almost the same way. While moving my mouse around, I accidentally knocked my speaker over on to my external HDD which was laying on the floor. The whole thing went dead. After a while, I started getting the "Click of Death" and thats when I knew it was all over. I tried everything. I even tried freezing it hoping that this would get it working long enough for me to copy everything over to a new drive.

No Dice...

I lost tons of porn very important documents that day, a date that I will live in Infamy! :(
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While I don't fully agree with the above post insofar as I like Squirtle, I'd nevertheless appreciate a general lack of off-topic posts in help-threads. After all, people don't start such threads for fun but because they need assistance with a problem. A new post is welcomned as a possible solution of said problem and then the disappointment is huge when it turns out to be offtopic and not helpful at all.
 
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