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Strange loss of format on pen drive [closed]
The files on my pen drive are impossible to open, and the names have been replaced by strange characters. In Ubuntu is worst, the Windows system crash.
What can I do to recover my information?
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How to reformat a thumb drive that is listed as having 0bytes free?
I have a thumb drive that has somehow been corrupted. When I plugged it in, Windows prompted me to reformat, so I did, and that did nothing. I checked on the drive in computer management and there was ...
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Strange SD Card "File Allocation Table" issue
I have lots of IoT devices running linux off an SD card, and for some reason they've all recently stopped working!
To get to the bottom of the issue, I tested these SD cards in Windows laptop.
The ...
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cannot access or format my USB [duplicate]
I have a 16Gb flash drive, was working fine till it just someday stopped working,
when i plug it the drivers are loaded, but i can't see it the "explorer"
i went to "Disk managment" but this is what ...
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Device not initialized, can't reformat
So I'm unable to access my flash drive because it doesn't initialize when I plug it into my computer, and when I try to initialize it I get "device not ready." There's nothing incredibly important on ...
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Is it possible to repair this USB device or get the information out of it?
This USB device had only one partition, but now it has two partitions and the second partition has an offset of 8MB, so I assume that there is a problem with the file system or partition table.
I have ...
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Flash drive works in read only, not on read/write [duplicate]
I have a 32GB Imation flash drive with a physical read-only switch.
A while ago I used it to install Ubuntu, and to do so I created a bootable USB. It worked, I installed Ubuntu, everything worked ...
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Did I destroy my USB stick? (Invisible when plugging in, lsusb works.)
I tried to create a multiboot USB following this tutorial:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/#more-5352
But Instead of getting a bootable USB I am not ...
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Flash drive not recognized
I was copying some files to my flash drive and removed it from my laptop. When I plugged it into my PC, it didn't recognize it and it doesn't show up in disk management, and I can't find it in device ...
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Unable to repair USB flash drive in Windows
When I tried to create a Windows To Go with Rufus, the process failed and my flash drive is in a weird state:
The drive will freeze any "disk reading" operations, including:
Diskpart (list ...
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Can't format my 16 gb USB Drive
I've tried to put a mac os dmg file with win32diskimager and it gave me an error, I can't remember the error but since then the USB drive it shows me: There is no media in the device (0 bytes). I've ...
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Fix USB stick that cannot be accessed, is not usable and is seen as portable device, not flash drive
I have a USB stick that cannot be accessed and cannot be formatted, even if I use diskpart. When I try to open it an error pops up: "H:\ cannot be accessed. Incorrect function". This stick has 16GB, ...
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USB flash drive no longer recognised after copying files
I have an R+M USB 3.0 that is no longer recognised by my PC (running Windows 10). The disk appears greyed out, 0 bytes available, as in this answer.
I don't mind about lost data, what I want to know ...
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How to recover a usb flash drive?
I have a Transcend 32GB USB disk-on-key with some fairly valuable data. No idea what happened, but now when I plug it in to any computer, I get a message that the drive is not formatted. Even if I ...
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Recovering a pen drive
I have a 32GB pendrive that ive had for quite a while and that always worked without problems but today I just plugged it in to realize that the pen drive had lost his name(was just showing "F:" ...