Flash drives have long been the usual part of our life. And their advantages compared to CDs brought flash drives at first place among the means of recording information. But, like any technique, they are not durable and quite often break. Therefore, everyone should know how to fix his little device.
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If you do not break off the flash drive, first do it to stop it into another USB connector. It often happens that the problem is not in the drive, but in the port, which has been subjected to some damage, for example, a driver has retired or something like that. You should also try to connect the drive to another computer, since ports in Bios can be trolically disabled in your PC.
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The problem of opening a drive may be associated with network drives (if you do not have them, feel free to skip this item). Sometimes the operating system assigns a flash drive and the disk one and the same letter of the partition name, so it is recommended to enter the name of the directory manually. If all of the above did not help, then the reason most likely lies in the drive itself.
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Remember whether you did not drop your flash drive before breakdown. Mechanical damage can damage the contacts of the plug and boards, and it will not properly connect to the computer. In this case, you can try to solder it back, if it does not help - you can not attempt to restore the USB flash drive and the data stored on it. Therefore, when buying a new drive, think about the shockproof model, which has a rubberized case and withstands almost any damage.
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If the flash drive sees the computer, but does not open, the simplest thing you can try is to format it, but carefully, because all the information on it will be removed. This will be done both by means mounted in the operating system and using third-party utilities, for example, "Uninstall Tool". And the reason for such a breakdown can serve as computer viruses.
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But perhaps the most unpleasant breakdown is a hardware malfunction of a microcontroller or an internal flash drive firmware. Diagnose these disappointing diagnoses will be on a simple feature - the computer "sees" the drive, but incorrectly determines the amount of free space or gives zero size. In this case, the USB flash drive can send straight into the garbage basket. And if you urgently need data, take it to those skilled in the art that will dismantle the memory chips and try to consider information from them, and maybe even restore the entire drive.
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To avoid the most typical breakdowns associated with a flash drive, you need to follow some rules. For example, if you remove the drive during data recording, it may damage the memory cells and the destruction of the service information. It is also worth remembering that they have a limited amount of information overwriting, and therefore it is not worth imposing new gigabytes each day.
Do not forget to avoid unpleasant excesses always make a backup of all important information and try not to store files in a single instance on the flash drive. If you have their backup, you will not be afraid no breakdown.
Greetings guys. I want to share with you my experience positive solutions to this issue. I just as you have already faced a problem with a similar problem when the flash drive is not determined by modern organizational works and the latest operating systems of the Windows family. The fact is that the default flash disk structure has the FAT32 file system. - While the modern line of operating systems works primarily in the NTFS file system. The reason for which your flash drive stopped displaying data can be caused by hardware collapse and incorrect extracting of the flash disk from the USB connector. Be always careful when removing the flash drive and be sure to use the right-click on the routing button on the corresponding icon of the safe removal of your flash drive from the system. -Tut it is very important, so take it for the rule. In addition, most users use their USB-Flash discs to view video / photo materials from them on the big screen of their TV and it must be said even more dangerous, because Voltage and static electricity have and static electricity, if the TV is connected by a DVB-C cable TV. - The fact is that the TV has no default function "safe flash drive", so you yourself must remember that the flash drive should be removed only after the power will be filled with it, and for this simply turn off your TV with a remote control d / y or The button on the rear panel and lead it to sleep mode. Make sure that the eyes on your flash drive went out and only after that feel free and carefully remove it (usually it is somewhere 10-15 seconds). Yes, yes - it is better to do this operation exactly that way and save (save) all your data - rather than grab the head. Let's come up to how I tried to renovate my flash drive after incorrect extraction from the Philips TV. I tried many ways, but he helped what I will say below. Of course you can use the Acronis Disc Director program, but everything needs experience, so I will tell you an easier way. I'll say right away: do not rush to format your flash drive if suddenly the system suddenly suggests you !!! - The fact that the file system of the flash drive can still be successfully restored !!! Remember I told you about the fact that the flash drive works in the FAT32 file system. So, all you need is Windows ME / 98, I personally used Windows Millenium Edition. All that I did it inserted the disk into the USB connector after loading the operating system, and Pouring a few seconds of Voila - the flash drive is fully operational as before. All the trick is that WINME / 98 uses the same file system as our flash drive, i.e. Without problems and labor restores the paths and boot records, while not changing anything. You get a fully working disk as if it were before the accident. The main thing is to remember those small rules described above and never rush to format. And even if information is valuable - duplicate it: Record on DVD / CD or archive HDD. I wish you good luck. I hope this information will be useful. With respect, Roman.
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Greetings guys. I want to share with you my experience positive solutions to this issue. I just as you have already faced a problem with a similar problem when the flash drive is not determined by modern organizational works and the latest operating systems of the Windows family. The fact is that the default flash disk structure has the FAT32 file system. - While the modern line of operating systems works primarily in the NTFS file system. The reason for which your flash drive stopped displaying data can be caused by hardware collapse and incorrect extracting of the flash disk from the USB connector. Be always careful when removing the flash drive and be sure to use the right-click on the routing button on the corresponding icon of the safe removal of your flash drive from the system. -Tut it is very important, so take it for the rule. In addition, most users use their USB-Flash discs to view video / photo materials from them on the big screen of their TV and it must be said even more dangerous, because Voltage and static electricity have and static electricity, if the TV is connected by a DVB-C cable TV. - The fact is that the TV has no default function "safe flash drive", so you yourself must remember that the flash drive should be removed only after the power will be filled with it, and for this simply turn off your TV with a remote control d / y or The button on the rear panel and lead it to sleep mode. Make sure that the eyes on your flash drive went out and only after that feel free and carefully remove it (usually it is somewhere 10-15 seconds). Yes, yes - it is better to do this operation exactly that way and save (save) all your data - rather than grab the head. Let's come up to how I tried to renovate my flash drive after incorrect extraction from the Philips TV. I tried many ways, but he helped what I will say below. Of course you can use the Acronis Disc Director program, but everything needs experience, so I will tell you an easier way. I'll say right away: do not rush to format your flash drive if suddenly the system suddenly suggests you !!! - The fact that the file system of the flash drive can still be successfully restored !!! Remember I told you about the fact that the flash drive works in the FAT32 file system. So, all you need is Windows ME / 98, I personally used Windows Millenium Edition. All that I did it inserted the disk into the USB connector after loading the operating system, and Pouring a few seconds of Voila - the flash drive is fully operational as before. All the trick is that WINME / 98 uses the same file system as our flash drive, i.e. Without problems and labor restores the paths and boot records, while not changing anything. You get a fully working disk as if it were before the accident. The main thing is to remember those small rules described above and never rush to format. And even if information is valuable - duplicate it: Record on DVD / CD or archive HDD. I wish you good luck. I hope this information will be useful. With respect, Roman.