Samsung 8GB Flash Drive

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This is not really a Windows XP question, but I couldn't find any
other forum pertains to it, so I hope maybe someone here can help.

I have been using a Samsung 8GB Flash Drive with my Windows XP SP3
laptop for a while. A few couple of months ago I need to transfer some
files from my laptop to a Mac laptop. I have no problem for several
weeks. Suddenly, last week when I put it into my Windows XP laptop, it
couldn't recognize it. It did show up in Disk Management but as a
'RAW' disk only. I assume somehow when I used it between PC and Mac,
the format got corrupted. Now I couldn't format it either in PC or
Mac. I tried to format it in Disk Management, and it said "format had
failed." I sent a form question to Samsung and never hear from them. I
called them and they said they couldn't help and I have to go to their
Contact Page to send in the question, which I did.

So is there anyone here can suggest an option for me to rescue my
flash drive? Maybe I need to install a driver again? If so, where can
I find it as I couldn't find it in Samsung website. When I went to the
Properties of the drive, it said it is working properly and the driver
is shown.

Any suggestions/comments are much appreciated. Thank you.
 
silkunicorn said:
This is not really a Windows XP question, but I couldn't find any
other forum pertains to it, so I hope maybe someone here can help.

I have been using a Samsung 8GB Flash Drive with my Windows XP SP3
laptop for a while. A few couple of months ago I need to transfer
some files from my laptop to a Mac laptop. I have no problem for
several weeks. Suddenly, last week when I put it into my Windows XP
laptop, it couldn't recognize it. It did show up in Disk Management
but as a 'RAW' disk only. I assume somehow when I used it between
PC and Mac, the format got corrupted. Now I couldn't format it
either in PC or Mac. I tried to format it in Disk Management, and
it said "format had failed." I sent a form question to Samsung and
never hear from them. I called them and they said they couldn't
help and I have to go to their Contact Page to send in the
question, which I did.

So is there anyone here can suggest an option for me to rescue my
flash drive? Maybe I need to install a driver again? If so, where
can I find it as I couldn't find it in Samsung website. When I went
to the Properties of the drive, it said it is working properly and
the driver is shown.

Any suggestions/comments are much appreciated. Thank you.
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http://www.getusb.info/what-is-the-life-cycle-of-a-usb-flash-drive/
 
silkunicorn said:
This is not really a Windows XP question, but I couldn't find any
other forum pertains to it, so I hope maybe someone here can help.

I have been using a Samsung 8GB Flash Drive with my Windows XP SP3
laptop for awhile. A couple of months ago I needed to transfer some
files from my laptop to a Mac laptop. I had no problem for several
weeks. Suddenly, last week when I put it into my Windows XP laptop, it
couldn't recognize it. It did show up in Disk Management but as a
'RAW' disk only. I assume somehow when I used it between PC and Mac,
the format got corrupted. Now I couldn't format it either in PC or
Mac. I tried to format it in Disk Management, and it said "format had
failed." I sent a form question to Samsung and never heard from them. I
called them and they said they couldn't help and I have to go to their
Contact Page to send in the question, which I did.

So is there anyone here who can suggest an option for me to rescue my
flash drive? Maybe I need to install a driver again? If so, where can
I find it as I couldn't find it in Samsung website. When I went to the
Properties of the drive, it said it is working properly and the driver
is shown.

Any suggestions/comments are much appreciated. Thank you.
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It reads like the thumb drive is bad, since it won't format with either
system. But try this anyway:

Turn the computer off, turn off its power strip for awhile. Then
restart. This is actually meant to clear up the USB ports; I doubt
it'll help, but it something simple you can try.
 
silkunicorn said:
This is not really a Windows XP question, but I couldn't find any
other forum pertains to it, so I hope maybe someone here can help.

I have been using a Samsung 8GB Flash Drive with my Windows XP SP3
laptop for a while. A few couple of months ago I need to transfer
some files from my laptop to a Mac laptop. I have no problem for
several weeks. Suddenly, last week when I put it into my Windows XP
laptop, it couldn't recognize it. It did show up in Disk Management
but as a 'RAW' disk only. I assume somehow when I used it between
PC and Mac, the format got corrupted. Now I couldn't format it
either in PC or Mac. I tried to format it in Disk Management, and
it said "format had failed." I sent a form question to Samsung and
never hear from them. I called them and they said they couldn't
help and I have to go to their Contact Page to send in the
question, which I did.

So is there anyone here can suggest an option for me to rescue my
flash drive? Maybe I need to install a driver again? If so, where
can I find it as I couldn't find it in Samsung website. When I went
to the Properties of the drive, it said it is working properly and
the driver is shown.

Any suggestions/comments are much appreciated. Thank you.
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
http://www.getusb.info/what-is-the-life-cycle-of-a-usb-flash-drive/
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Than you, Shenan. I read the article but it doesn't fit into my
situation. I hardly use my flash drive and there's no way I have
used up to the limit. I really think switching between PC and Mac, it
corrupted my drive.
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The only problem I have with that is the dozen of people I support that do
that every day, some who are likely getting close to the limits mentioned in
the article - and not had the issue you have (I make them put their really
important stuff on two different ones and/or put copies elsewhere.)

Assuming it was formatted FAT32 - it is unlikely switching between OS X and
Windows whatever would cause any issues on the thumb/flash drive. It just
treats it as file storage *unless* you are doing somehting on it (running
applications from it, installing things on it, etc) that it really wasn't
meant for.

Unfortunately - it really sounds like it has gone bad if it works on no
computer.
 
The only problem I have with that is the dozen of people I support that do
that every day, some who are likely getting close to the limits mentionedin
the article - and not had the issue you have (I make them put their really
important stuff on two different ones and/or put copies elsewhere.)

Assuming it was formatted FAT32 - it is unlikely switching between OS X and
Windows whatever would cause any issues on the thumb/flash drive.  It just
treats it as file storage *unless* you are doing somehting on it (running
applications from it, installing things on it, etc) that it really wasn't
meant for.

Unfortunately - it really sounds like it has gone bad if it works on no
computer.
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Shenan,

No, I did not run any applications, just transfering files between OS
X and PC, and it is in FAT32. I do think that somehow the drive is
corrupted. I did have another 8gb but not with Samsung, which I used
between PC and Mac as well, so far so good. So maybe it's the drive
itself and not the operation systems.

Thank you for your input.
 
Re- Flash Drive

If you formatted it first with Mac and then tried to format it again with Fat32 or
NTFS your Flash Drive automatically has gone south for a permanent vacation. This
issue has been posted before and I am basing my answer on it
 
Re- Flash Drive

If you formatted it first with Mac and then tried to format it again withFat32 or
NTFS your  Flash Drive automatically has gone south for a permanent vacation. This
issue has been posted before and I am basing my answer on it

--
Peter

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Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
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Peter,

It was used on my PC in FAT32 format, then I used in Mac. No format
has been changed, it's always FAT32. Even I want to format in my Mac,
it wouldn't let me anyway.
 
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