usb drive corrupt
dsr at tao.merseine.nu
dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Thu Aug 4 16:42:00 EDT 2005
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-
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