- Jul 13, 2009
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New memory stick is giving me serious headaches. I specifically avoided SanDisk as I've owned a couple of their memory sticks , 40GB in total..and they went to hell by becoming read-only. SanDisk acknowledged the issue and didn't provide a fix or new memory sticks. Hell of a company, but I learned my lesson as I specifically avoided their products this time around.
NOW:
The drive is DT 101 G2 8GB. Today Windows asked me to format it, to my surprise, as it worked perfectly fine when I first connected it and I put data on it and left it like that, I haven't really used the drive in a couple of weeks or so. (it's quite a new drive).
I didn't want to format as I can't remember exactly what data I had on it..but then I went with it....only to find out I couldn't format it.
Tried:
1.Formatting through context menu by right clicking on the memory stick drive.
2.Tried using the Kingston Tool.
3.Went to Computer Management and tried to create a partition - drive letter doesn't even appear over there, but it does appear under Computer.
4.Start->cmd with full admin rights-> format G: /fs:fat32. Verifying 7388M....a century later :
"15033310 bad sectors were encountered during the format. These sectors cannot be guaranteed to have been cleaned. Invaid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable."
5.Used Partition Master - 7.22GB appear as unallocated -> CREATE NEW PARTITION-> half a century later-> "There are some error occurred while writing partition chains on disk."
What next?
I tried to check my drive to see if it was a counterfeit product but I can't seem to find a page for that on Kingston.com
Drive info:
DT101G2/8GB
C4415-456.A00LF 5V
OS 6742831 TAIWAN
NOW:
The drive is DT 101 G2 8GB. Today Windows asked me to format it, to my surprise, as it worked perfectly fine when I first connected it and I put data on it and left it like that, I haven't really used the drive in a couple of weeks or so. (it's quite a new drive).
I didn't want to format as I can't remember exactly what data I had on it..but then I went with it....only to find out I couldn't format it.
Tried:
1.Formatting through context menu by right clicking on the memory stick drive.
2.Tried using the Kingston Tool.
3.Went to Computer Management and tried to create a partition - drive letter doesn't even appear over there, but it does appear under Computer.
4.Start->cmd with full admin rights-> format G: /fs:fat32. Verifying 7388M....a century later :
"15033310 bad sectors were encountered during the format. These sectors cannot be guaranteed to have been cleaned. Invaid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable."
5.Used Partition Master - 7.22GB appear as unallocated -> CREATE NEW PARTITION-> half a century later-> "There are some error occurred while writing partition chains on disk."
What next?
I tried to check my drive to see if it was a counterfeit product but I can't seem to find a page for that on Kingston.com
Drive info:
DT101G2/8GB
C4415-456.A00LF 5V
OS 6742831 TAIWAN
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