The most common cause of this is removing the USB drive without clicking "Safely remove hardware" in the task bar. Especially if data is being written to the drive, this can result in corrupt files and may make the drive unusable.
I'm sorry to say the data may be unrecoverable--ALWAYS make backups!
Two things to try before you write-off the data as lost forever.
One: Try booting the computer in SAFE mode and see if you can pull files off the USB Drive--you may have to give the drive administrative privileges.
Two: Download and run the trial version of the BadCopy data recovery program at this link:
http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/To make the drive usable again, find it in My Computer, RIGHT click on it and click "Format." The choose "Quick" format. A quick format should make it usable again.
If the BadCopy program could find no files to recover: After the quick format, you may be able to pull some of the files off simply in windows. If not, run BadCopy again: It just may find some files after the quick format.
A full format erases ALL data which may remain on the drive. Only use quick format if you expect to recover anything.
Good Luck!
I need to reformat the Kingston 2GB flash drive because when I saved some files on a computer running Mac OS9 the files seemed to be translated to PC format. I wish to reformat the drive so it will work with Mac but the software on the Mac won't let me do so.
P.S. This is a work related computer. I personally HATE Mac's!
hi.i have a solution.you must go and uninistal your usb drive first and then you should search for chang.after that your usb will work and you could format it.for uninistaling and searching for changes you should go to device maneger. the adress is :start/control panel/system/hardware/device maneger.
good luck!
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