Here's my Story ::



Alright .. now is the headache .. there is no way that I could get the drive to work normally .. it was detected by WinXP but cannot be read .. worst .. I can't format it ..

Tried to use Partition Magic to format but it can only detect HDDs .. can't think of an other ideas ..

Hope someone can help suggest some ::
1) Software
2) TEchnic
to solve this problem ..

Thanks
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Found the Solution in another forum ::

1) Clik on "START"
2) Move Cursor to "My Document"
3) Right Clik (clik on the right button on the mouse)
4) A Menu will drop down .. choose "Manage"
.. .. A new window will appear ..
5) Clik on the "+" left of "Storage"
6) Clik on the "+" left of "Disk Management"
.. .. The right Panel will show all the Drives
7) Clik on your thumb drive (The words "Removable" will be there)
8) Right Clik and choose .. Oops I forgot .. something that is along the line of adding or creating a partition ..
9) Choose accordingly .. if in doubt .. just choose the default option ..

.. Yippeee .. Finally contributed something useful .. and also this will be my 10th post ..

Would you care to recall & come back and fill up the 8th and 9th steps with the precise instructions ?? That would be a lot more helpful for the readers.

I can field this.

First off, you went the long way to get into the computer management section.

1. Go to control panel
2. Select Administrative tools
3. Select Computer management
4. Select Disk manager.
5. Find your disk.

If your partition was corrupted, a way to repartition it is by deleting the corrupted partition (if it's necessary or possible) and then using disk manager (yes, by right clicking on the drive you're working on) and selecting New Partition. This will go through the processes of partitioning the thumb device.

If there's anything that you can try to salvage, I suggest doing it first. If you can't, you can use a file recovery system. Afterwards, I suggest formatting the device. You can do this on Disk Manager (right next to Add New Paritition), or you can go through My Computer and format it by right clicking on the device, and selecting format.

"Yosho-sama" - you went the long way also. To get to device management just simply right click on "My computer & select "manage" from there you have skipped going to control panel, administrator options & yada yada yada - - - Hope this helps someone at least with some time.

"Yosho-sama" - you went the long way also. To get to device management just simply right click on "My computer & select "manage" from there you have skipped going to control panel, administrator options & yada yada yada - - - Hope this helps someone at least with some time. Of course I just noticed this was last updated in 2005 so I doubt it will get notices

Yosho's steps should work.

why don't you use TestDisk. I use it a lot.



And the best fact is that it is an opensource software.

There's also Photorec to recover your files.

They're all can work on flash/thumb drive

Also, might I add (even though this has already been solved), another tool to try is GParted (it is a linux application, and you can download a liveCD with just it, for the purpose of managing partitions)

Although I am not 100% sure if it works with flash drives, the download isn't too bad, and it works really well on all partition types (plus it can resize partitions for you).

The website is: http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/

Just thought i would add this, since gparted supports so many types of partitions, and so many more features than the windows partition manager thing.

Ahhh! Now to find my flash drive that got messed up when I was playing around with installing xandros linux.

I hope that this works! It was a pretty good flash drive too. One of those 1gb Swiss Army Knife ones.

- Trinifawk

Another easy solution is to use the HP boot disk. It will format the disk and make it bootable too!!!!!!!