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#1 2011-10-23 12:58:14
- IHeartGaming
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Broken USB Drives
Anyway, I plugged a flash drive in at a music kiosk at Dave and Buster's. Guess what? It broke!
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In the meantime:
Plugging it in. Nothing will recognize it.
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A few years later: (now)
I plugged it into the USB hub in my desk and my computer recognized it! Just because the hub is currently rinning on a super low voltage.
Yay!
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#2 2011-10-23 22:35:53
Re: Broken USB Drives
I had a USB thumb drive which corrupted random data and came up with weird error messages when trying to eject saying that it couldn't. After reformating twice it now works. I also removed the case.
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#3 2011-10-24 03:00:04
- jji7skyline
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Re: Broken USB Drives
what-the wrote:
I had a USB thumb drive which corrupted random data and came up with weird error messages when trying to eject saying that it couldn't. After reformating twice it now works. I also removed the case.
Reformatting does wonders for a corrupted drive 
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#4 2011-10-24 03:01:03
Re: Broken USB Drives
jji7skyline wrote:
what-the wrote:
I had a USB thumb drive which corrupted random data and came up with weird error messages when trying to eject saying that it couldn't. After reformating twice it now works. I also removed the case.
Reformatting does wonders for a corrupted drive
It takes at least 3 formats for me. 
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#5 2011-10-24 04:48:15
- jji7skyline
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Re: Broken USB Drives
ssss wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
what-the wrote:
I had a USB thumb drive which corrupted random data and came up with weird error messages when trying to eject saying that it couldn't. After reformating twice it now works. I also removed the case.
Reformatting does wonders for a corrupted drive
It takes at least 3 formats for me.
My USB drive went in the washing machine and worked fine afterwards... the beauty of flash memory
A normal disk wouldn't have lasted half a minute in the washing machine
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