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My kingston 8gb flash drive shows 0bytes

My usb kingston flash drive just started indicating 0bytes after i tried to format it and all my data on it is lose.pls someone help me solve this problem

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Dont worry, you can usb flash drive recovery software like asoftech data recovery to get back your files. You may refer to this step by step guide
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Hyy i have the same problem plz help me.. i am not getting your disc managment solution

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    hyy i have the same problem plz help me.. i am not getting your disc managment solution

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Click start control panel administrative tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click start two boxes

automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check now start

you might tick one box then return after its finished the first repair then return and tick the second box you should not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage this drive

I found that you get best results by ticking one box then returning after it has finished then tick the other box

If you need more help with this post a reply

hope this helps you

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  • Posted on Nov 18, 2008

SOURCE: i can't format my 512MB kingston data traveler

Dude I just fixed mine running the SKYMEDI tool version SK6211BA_20080917 on my 8GB kingston datatraveler 100 is hard to get it but you will find it, you need to determine what version of the sw applies to your flash drive, check the SKYMEDI website www.skymedi.com.tw

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SOURCE: write protected

kiick azz.. u might try copy files from cd that has write protection.. i still try 2 find the solution..

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  • Posted on Feb 09, 2010

SOURCE: Kingston Data Traveler 2.0 64 GB USB - file system

2gb kingston pen drive showing capicity only 4 mb so pls provide the solution

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  • Posted on Mar 19, 2010

SOURCE: how can I format an 8gb kingston data traveler

Try going into Control Panel/Admin tools/Computer Management then Disk Management. You will see a display of all drives connected. Right click the flash drive the Delete Partition, Now right click again and format. Hope it works Cheers from Scott

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SOURCE: I have Data traveler 102

You will have to be the computer administrator to change any values on a hard drive

click start control panel user accounts you should see a box with the administrator and the guest account if you have made one click on the administrator this may vary depending on which operating system you have

click start click to open on my computer you should see your hard drive usually C: right click select properties there will be an array of options select the security tab option then advanced make sure you have full control in windows 7

click start control panel user accounts click on the administrators account if you have made one or you will have to create one in windows XP

USB drives can be write-protected by modifying the StoreageDevicePolicies Registry key and WriteProtect Registry value.
click Start>run>regedit to open Registry Editor. and press control+F to open the find dialogue box and type "usb device" or "driverdesc" to open usb mass storage device or type "usb mass storage device" in the search windows. And right click on it and delete. This will set the policy value to 0. then insert your usb device. It will work fine.
# Remember: do not delete any unknow files in the registry as this will make some programes not work as usual.

also
If you are running a Windows XP OS then you might be able to:
- click start right click on my computer select open
- Right click the icon of your Flash Drive (It should be F:/ or something)
- Click Properties in the menu that comes up
- Click the Sharing tab
- Click permissions
- And finally, click Allow next to Full Control.
hope this helps


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Welcome to Fixyah,

0bytes when there is a lot of files store to your flash drive but when there is no other contents meaning there is something wrong with your flash drive. Tried to format it with full format. Let me know what happen.
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I don't know the specific model, but perhaps http://www.kingston.com/support/USBFLASHDRIVES/default.asp would be of assistance.
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Try going into Control Panel/Admin tools/Computer Management then Disk Management. You will see a display of all drives connected. Right click the flash drive the Delete Partition, Now right click again and format. Hope it works Cheers from Scott
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The 'FAT32' file-system uses 32-bit arithmetic, and thus can easily format an 8GB device.

So, be sure to choose 'FAT32'.

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Click Start
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Click Storage
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Does the card show a 1.87GB "partition", plus 6.13GB of "unused" space?
If so, then delete that "small" partition, and then create a new partition that "spans" the entire 8GB.
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