USB flash drive FAT32 unreadable

chid76

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I need a little help please. My brother gave me his son's 64gb flash drive so I could put some photos and stuff on there for him, but I am having a problem where anything I put on there seem's to fall into a black hole!

He gave the drive with about 15gb of random files on there that were not to be deleted. To keep things tidy I created a new folder called Previous Files and dragged and them in there and made a new folder called new stuff and copied about 16gb of stuff into that folder.
When I try and access the folders they are showing as 0 bytes and nothing in there, but when looking at the drive through my computer it's still showing as 30ish gb used.

I have also noted that then drive is using FAT32 file format for some reason and the rest of my drives are NTFS.

Whats really strange, is that if I copy a single mp3 file to the drive it's visible and plays fine, but when I remove the drive and plug it back in I can see the mp3 but windows tells me it's not readable.

I'm on Windows 7 home premium if that helps, and any help would be appreciated!

Thanks :)
 
Is it a fake drive? Seems to exhibit a few of the same behaviors. What i'd be tempted to do is clone the partition onto a spare disk and then mess about with that
 
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can you see and access the folder/files that were already on there?

fat32 wont let you transfer anything larger than around 2gb far as I remember,best to backup the data on it and format it to ntfs then see what happens

idk if your trying to transfer a larger file or smaller files ect
 
Gammawolf said:
Is it a fake drive? Seems to exhibit a few of the same behaviors. What i'd be tempted to do is clone the partition onto a spare disk and then mess about with that
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Sounds like it, ask where he bought it?

Market place, eBay, Amazon reseller for a cheap price =fake drive
 
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