usb drive corrupt

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:30:24PM -0400, John.Boland at reebok.com wrote:
> I've got a 1 gig Lexar USB thumb drive that has been working well for 
> about a year.  I've been using it for backups and to transfer files from 
> Linux to M$.  The drive appears as a DOS partition.  Recently, when I 
> insert the drive into a Windows box (2000, 2003, XP), M$ says that the 
> drive is corrupt!  However, I can still mount it using a couple of Linux 
> boxes and a MAC.  There is no corruption that fsck can detect.  I have 
> tried several Windows machines, all with the same result.

Try copying everything off of it, reformat it, and copy your
data back. 

-dsr-