pendrive death?

GeX · 23 Dec 2009 at 01:34

Howdy

Plugged my pendrive in and got 'device not recognized'. Tried it on another PC, tried disabling USB 2, tried other pendrives in same ports and they worked.

Doesnt show in disc managment. Any magic fixes, or is it dead now?

Shakeel · 23 Dec 2009 at 02:52

it might be. this happen to my 1tb wd ext hdd. it hasnt worked since

rixarena · 23 Dec 2009 at 10:04

yeah ive had pendrives die,

With your external have you tried taking it out and connecting it in the computer?

Sam

GeX · 23 Dec 2009 at 17:55

i threatened it with RMA and it's back now, the trust is gone tho.

evoyear · 23 Dec 2009 at 18:05

I heard there is a limit on how many times you can use your pen drive.

JonJ678 · 23 Dec 2009 at 18:10

I've sometimes managed to save them by forcibly writing zeros to the entire drive then reformatting.

They definitely die though, I've been through half a dozen or so.

tankskun · 23 Dec 2009 at 19:00

My pendrive died last week. I just chucked it in the bin.

dragy2k · 23 Dec 2009 at 21:14

mine died a few months back , it refused to be recognised in any port even thou other drives were ..... used a prog like hdtune for pendrives and its back to normal now ...il try and remember the prog used and post it up..

NeoVo · 23 Dec 2009 at 21:36

Flash drives have limited life, too many read/write cycles and unfortunately they die. Had a few fail on me now.

Now i just use a 2.5" sata notebook drive in a 2.5" enclosure. Costs more, and heavier/ chunkier to carry around but probably cheaper in the long run, larger, quicker and will last a lot longer (providing you dont drop it).