What is the capacity? If you are keeping important documents on it that you don't have anywhere else (we all know that is bad practise anyway) then I would junk it and get a new one, they aren't that expensive these days.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nobozoz Sent: 11 June 2005 21:18 To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] Crashing Cruzer Mini Well, guess what. I was able to pull most of the important stuff off the Cruzer by repeatedly mounting the drive in WINXP and copying one root-based folder at a time. About 20 of the 34 or so root folders managed to make it to the HDD intact, the rest were lost because they couldn't be read at all - even partially. Then, I reformatted the Cruzer as a FAT and ran CHKDSK on it and saved a few Folders to it - now it appears to be just like new. There was no loss of total capacity after the format either, so CHKDSK didn't find any bad sectors AFAIKT. I'm beginning to think this problem was due to WINXP aborting the write of a 6 MB PDF somewhere in the middle - that's what I was doing when all the trouble started, but I didn't get any warnings from XP that there was a specific problem with the Cruzer other than that the file-save was aborted. I wonder if I can continue to trust this drive now or not. I don't feel that lucky. _jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Analyst Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 10:06 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] Crashing Cruzer Mini On 10 Jun 2005 at 19:13, nobozoz wrote: > Thanks for your response. > > The drive mounts fine - initially. It gets a drive letter OK; I can > open 'some' folders and view files OK; but when I try to COPY, I get > file read errors often enough to be a royal PITA. There is over 200 MB > of files and folders on that Cruzer. Easily more than 2,000 files in > about 34 folders at root level. Yeah, my brother has one with thousands of files on it as well, but he can't even get it to mount, and all the recovery software states that the jump drive must at least show up in "My Computer" for it to function. > I took a look at 'BadCopy', but there's no way to tell if the > 'recovered' files are corrupt or not. That's not good enough for me to > open my wallet for. Their demo mode is akin to going to a dealership, > watching a video and calling it a test drive before buying a car. I wasn't quite sure how that worked. They say it will tell you what files CAN be recovered, but the evaluation copy won't allow them to be copied, but I see what you mean, they could be copied and still be corrupted. Vince
