tsamo Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 I have a usb drive that I tried to copy files onto this week. I copied a folder that was about 14gb onto my usb drive. Well, it copied most of them successfully but some of the files became corrupt. Here's an example of the file names that came overu¬u¬├xφ«.ΘεƒI can't copy, rename, nor delete the corrupt files.But, I can copy, rename, and delete the non-corrupt files.Any ideas on how to get rid of the corrupt files?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsamo Posted March 19, 2009 Author Share Posted March 19, 2009 Also, I just tried to format the usb drive and it won't let me format.I tried the regular format and the quick format. The method I used was...Navigate to My ComputerRight click on my usb driveSelect Format"Formatting will erase all data....Select OK" -- I select OK..Then, nothing...literally. nothing happens after that. This is bizarre. I've never seen anything like this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsamo Posted March 19, 2009 Author Share Posted March 19, 2009 I just read some other forum threads to look at the Read-Only checkbox. The Read-only box is not checked. Actually none of them are checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Is it a known brand or a "bargain" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsamo Posted March 24, 2009 Author Share Posted March 24, 2009 It's a Sony VAIO 64gb 2.0 pen/flash drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 USB Drives aren't known for lasting very long, especially if a lot of writes are done to them. I've seen this behaviour before also, but if a format does not fix it, we normally smash them to little peices and get a new one. Then again, our drives are 2GB at the most. You can try in other computers. Or you could put MSDOS files onto the key and boot off of it and see if you can delete them in a pure DOS environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hueristic Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 USB Drives aren't known for lasting very long, especially if a lot of writes are done to them. I've seen this behaviour before also, but if a format does not fix it, we normally smash them to little peices and get a new one. Then again, our drives are 2GB at the most. You can try in other computers. Or you could put MSDOS files onto the key and boot off of it and see if you can delete them in a pure DOS environment.UnlockerAssistant.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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