I last used my memorex mega traveldrive 4 gb in April and put it aside. When I plugged it in the laptop last night, the light lit briefly and stopped. Windows gave me a warning that says it was not recognized. Can't get it to read on another computer either. Thought it was a drivers issues. The only drivers on the memorex website was for win 98. Downloaded and installed it anyways, but is still not working. What to do? I have very important files contained only on this drive!
SOURCE: Memores 4G Mega Traveldrive doesn't read
Step one is try it on another computer. This will seperate issues....is it the drive or the USB port (hardware or software actully in both cases are possible.
Step two, if it works elsewhere, is to check under device manager, and reinstall the driver (if not embedded in the drive which most are)....both USB and the disk.
Step three is to download (again assuming it did not work) the disk diagnostics from Memorex (most drive manufacturers have a host of utilities and they may exist even for flash drives - they use them internal to their mfg operations as well). Check to see if it's good. It is possible that it just lost the embedded driver by the way in which case you need to put it back on the drive...haven't done that but assume it's possible and available.
Can give you more "stuff" to do but this will probably solve the problem....and I am guessing it died. If it did they are not expensive...and even cheaper if you really don't need 4 gb...few people do for personal and even work data.
Check at pricewatch.com (not a seller) for pricing. This site is used by GEEKS United for finding "stuff".
This gives you some options.....Tango
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