HDD Regenerator has destroyed my USB flash stick
- Thread starter lupetalo
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- Sep 7, 2013
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HDD Regenerator is designed for hard drives only - - not flash drives/pen drives.
From product page:
* Fast hard drive problems detection.
* Ability to detect physical bad sectors on a hard disk drive surface.
* Ability to repair bad sectors (magnetic errors) on a hard disk.
Nowhere does it say you can use it to scan/repair flash media.
You messed up by using the product on the wrong type of storage device - - just buy a new pen drive is easiest thing to do now.
From product page:
* Fast hard drive problems detection.
* Ability to detect physical bad sectors on a hard disk drive surface.
* Ability to repair bad sectors (magnetic errors) on a hard disk.
Nowhere does it say you can use it to scan/repair flash media.
You messed up by using the product on the wrong type of storage device - - just buy a new pen drive is easiest thing to do now.
In order to use/try the program you have to make either bootable flash or bootable CD. I was dumb enough to make the former, but I didn't try it on my PC. Then I decided to remove the bootable files from the flash by formatting the flash
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Titan
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All you did was make a boot USB drive with that utility, it did not destroy anything. It just made a 2 GB partition when it created the boot disk. It's like someone taking a cake, cutting off 1/4 for you on a plate and putting the rest in the fridge. You still have the full cake but you just see 1/4 of it, you don't panic that someone destroyed your 3/4 of the cake, it's just not in front of your nose.
Run the HP utility already posted, it should wipe the disk again and put it back to full partition size. Or you can use the diskpart command line utility to delete everything off the drive with the clean command and then create and format the drive with disk manager in Windows.
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