Comments on: Restore/Format USB Flash Drive

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By: tricbkiketyler

tricbkiketyler — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:29:20 +0000

i have a 8gb flash drive by PNY…….iv used it to transfer music from my mac to my laptop so i can put it on a micro sd card… and well today and yesterday ive had so many problems and its because all of the sudden all my memory is GONE….there is not a single file on my flash drive and it says there is only 1mb of usable memory…..please help me

By: jasmine

jasmine — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:14:50 +0000

I have a question, so I am trying to open my flashdrive but i cant, a message asks if i want to fromat it, ii dont want to format it becuase if I do I will lose the data I have saved, is there any way around it.

By: Nauma tangiteina

Nauma tangiteina — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:57:16 +0000

how do i restore my 8gb

By: Bean Machine

Bean Machine — Sun, 15 May 2011 06:14:17 +0000

Wow, this with maybe a combination of Test Disk worked for me. I can’t format it to EXT4 or anything else though.. but hey, I got my USB key back to an extent at least.

By: Mubeen

Mubeen — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:00:58 +0000

I am getting error in step 4…. plz what to do…. help….

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

Error closing file

By: Andrew Kevin

Andrew Kevin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:23:38 +0000

That was a useful tip. It helped recover data in one of my older USB flash drives.
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By: abid

abid — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:03:27 +0000

i have deleated ally my songs from my flash drive by mistake and i want to restore it back help me please

By: viki

viki — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:07:55 +0000

thanks for great article I fixed my brother\’s in law flash key like that & now it\’s working perfectly but I have other problem… I have one more 2GB Kingston flash drive. it shows that it has only 8MB memory and in windows it says that it has RAW file system. using fdisk -l gives this information about it:

\”Disk /dev/sdb: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xffffffff

Disk /dev/sdb doesn\’t contain a valid partition table.\”

using all commands you gave above, it creates new partition but again only 8MB:

\”Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (2-1024, default 2):
Using default value 2
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (2-1024, default 1024):
Using default value 1024

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x19598c3d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 1024 8184 83 Linux\”

and of course trying to make it FAT16 it says:

\”WARNING: Not enough clusters for a 16 bit FAT! The filesystem will be
misinterpreted as having a 12 bit FAT without mount option \”fat=16\”.\”

is there any other options to fix this problem? how to force it to be 2GB again?

By: Isaac

Isaac — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:30:34 +0000

I forgot to add that my flash drive icon will not show up on the desktop. Could you help me?