Computer help
 

Hey guys, I need some advice on a flash drive I just got. It's a 1GB ACP flash drive and I have having some issues with it. I tried installing a bootable linux operating system to it but it failed when the program tried to format the flash drive. Now I can't get it to reformat and the thing's a piece of junk!

Whenever I try to reformat it, it gives me either a write protection error, or a "bad sector 0" error.

There is no write protection switch on the drive.

I have tried to do it through windows, using the computer manager and I have also tried the command line:

Format E: /FS:FAT32 / Format E: /FS:FAT

Not really sure what else I can do. Are there any intelligent formating programs (free of course) that could recognize a bad sector if this is what's causing this? Is there a windows xp bug / registry issue?

I dunno...have you tried :google: to see if there are known issues with it?

I didn't have any problem reformatting my 2GB cruzer when I got it....

- Justin

i've googled like woah. I'm just going to call the manfuactuer, they'll tell me it's defective and ill send it back.

AMD 1GB and no problems here...

no idea what's causing yours

On Windows XP, I'd start with a "chkdsk /R". (/R: "Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information"). Fire up a command prompt to run that command.
if your not using windows try

http://www.grc.com/intro.htm

AMD makes flash drives? :scratch:

- Justin

maybe a promotional item but that's the only identifying mark on it

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/6513/img0020gf0.th.jpg

Sorry I should have mentioned that, I tried to do a chkdsk as well and it came up as can not do this on "RAW" partitions. I did some googling and found out most of the time when it says a drive has a RAW partition it means something on the drive is corrupt..

well no *****!