Shoutbox

ok.. so ye my friend had wte problem with his memory key.. its a sandisk cruzer mini 256 MB btw.. and like its not working so good anymore, still shows the drive in my computer when you plug it in, but no files appears in there, and you cannot transfer anything..

he gave it to me and told me to format it.. so I opened My Computer, right click on Format and waited.. nothing came up

And well.. I tried again and again, none happens.. his waranty is sadly over.. so he's searching for a solution to fix it, perhaps another way of formating the drive? maybe by DOS ?

Thx in advance

use the computer managment > disk managment !! it may work

regards

You can try it with prompt, go to start>Run and type cmd.

then at prompt type this: format X: /X
Where X: is the letter of the Drive.

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Originally posted by zaher1988
use the computer managment > disk managment !! it may work

regards

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I tried that, the drive does not show

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Originally posted by Ezra
You can try it with prompt, go to start>Run and type cmd.

then at prompt type this: format :X /X
Where :X is the letter of the Drive.

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The drive is F, so I typed:

format :F/F

And it gave me :

Invalid Parameter - /F

Only change the first X, sorry my fault and the ":" was wrong, I'm sorry again

Anywaay, this one is right (Needs no more changing )

format F: /X

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Originally posted by Ezra
Only change the first X, sorry my fault and the ":" was wrong, I'm sorry again

Anywaay, this one is right (Needs no more changing )

format F: /X

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Cannot open volume for direct access...

is the read only switch on? if not, its broken

Here's a page I came across while I was waiting for IBM's free 32Mb memory key, which I don't think anyone actually got

So I don't know if the method works, but check it out anyway and let us know if it does:

How do you Format a RAW USB Flash Drive under WinXP - TechSpot OpenBoards