I have a "Adata" 1GB flash drive .. that i bought a year ago ... that worked fine till a couple of days ago ... now i`m having serious and annoying ishuess with it ... When ever i plug it into the PC .. it automatically detects it as normal ... but when i try to access it it says .. that the drive is un accessable and needs formating, when i "right-click" and check its properties in MyComp ... it says that the drive has 0 bytes space on it .. and 0 bytes used **. Ok .. since the data on the drive wasn't that important to me .. but the drive itself i went ahead and format the drive, now it shows me the correct values when i check its properties ... and i can use it normally to store data on it .. but if i unplug it .. and plug it again .. the drives goes to the "Drive unaccesable .. needs format" etc etc. A friend of mine who has a tad more knowledge in the matter than myself said that the drive's boot sector is damaged and that i should seek out some kind of software to repair this. Since then i tried a gazzilion types of programs & software .. but i still didn't managed to fix it. I`m thinking my problem is that i don't properly understand how a freaking flash drive works . Can someone here explain any solutions as to how i can fix my problem ? how to recreate the boot sector on the drive ? how to define its filesystem ? If u think u can help me please get in contact with me over email ... [email protected]
The flash drive has been damaged so, you need to repair it with a good recovery software to get data back. Do not format the drive because if you format the drive you will loss all data. Try -- Windows Data Recovery Software - Recover Lost Data from FAT, NTFS Partition software available at this link for getting data back.
To be honest, with prices of flash drives dropping like stones in a pool, I would buy a new one... Try and buy from a reputable retailer so you can take it back if it goes bad...
