Flash Drive Problem

[Harlow]

Somewhere in the week, archives in my flash drives don't appear as proper archives but as shortcuts, they take a lot of time to load (sometimes not loading at all) and they're directed to C:/Windows/system32 (paraphrased)

 

Computer is fine, but the problem in the flash drive is still there even after formatting it.

 

Is my University flash drive, so it's been everywhere. I'm sure it doesn't stem from my computer

[Scourge]

Sounds like its time for a new flashdrive yo

 

My current one BARELY works, and I've had it for 3 years, they sparsely last more than a year for me but I'm a fairly destructive person so that number may vary a bit.

[Arashikage]

Definitely time to get a new flash drive.  Luckily you can find a 32 gig for around 20 dollars.  I'd recommend doing that, unless flash drives don't last long for you.  Then you should probably just go bare minimum for what you need it for.

[DZComposer]

Flash Drives are the 21st Century equivalent of floppies. They're great for moving files between machines, but terrible for primary storage.

Anyway, yeah, it sounds like the filesystem on the drive is hosed. Seeing as you reformatted it and it hosed itself again, I'd say the flash memory is probably worn out. Cheap flash drives use low-quality flash memory. The lower the quality, the fewer times you can write to it before it becomes unusable. Add the stresses of taking it everywhere and exposing it to all kinds of conditions, and you lower it even further.

[Scourge]

Grab yer files off of it while ya can buddy

[Snys93]

I had a similar problem with a Micro SD card. Couldn't format at all and somehow tons of porn got loaded on it.

Had no choice but to chuck it.

[CrypticQuery]

Couldn't format at all and somehow tons of porn got loaded on it.

 

[Snys93]

Yeah, it was gay porn, foonic. All of it. Should have mentioned.

 

 

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Once it does that, should just try to extract what you can and throw it away. I don't think theres any way to fix it.

[Scourge]

Flash drives werent really meant to be fixed anyway. They're meant to be used until breaking, then replaced.

[Snys93]

Well, I think that answers Harlow's question.

 

Heres an exploding whale gif:

[Harlow]

They had to evacuate the whole town and the explosion didn't even scrape half the whale off.

[Snys93]

They had to evacuate the whole town and the explosion didn't even scrape half the whale off.

 

Not only are whales religious radical extremist, but they are also VERY terrible at it.

[Zukaro]

I don't know how good Windows is at formatting things.  Personally, I use GParted on Ubuntu whenever I want to format anything as I find it does an incredibly good job at it.  I've been able to get flash drives that I broke to work again doing that. 

 

Although I'm sure there's some Windows tools you could probably use.  I'd have to see it myself though to be able to figure out how to fix it. 

 

That being said, these days you might as well just grab a Raspberry Pi, put ownCloud on it, connect some external hard drives, and use that for all your storage.  That's what I do.    Although I'm not using a Raspberry Pi for that I'm using a computer I found on the side of the road and use to run all my servers on (the ownCloud server is run in a virtual server on that machine ).

[DZComposer]

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