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MicknPat

Dave, Immediatly I'd removed the security software or what ever it was I noticed that ALL the 30 folders contaning photographs that I had backed up had gone.

I then went to the location I'd backed up the folders and tried to copy them to the 1Gig pen drive, within seconds I got a 'No more space' message.

I then formatted the 1Gig pen drive which is where I am today.

DABurleigh

I'd do a low-level format. I have utilities on my Pocket PC to do this to CF or SD cards plugged in. From a Windows desktop a utility such as this would do:

philmccann

Hi there

I inadvertantly re-formatted my 2GB USB drive. I had left it in a slot while re-formatting the main computer drive and the PC saw it as just another hard drive and re-formatted it.. When I had finished the PC refused to even recognise the USB drive and Windows would not format it. Eventually found a small program by Hewlett-Packard using Google, which was to make an H-P USB drive "Bootable" My USB is not an H-P but this small program worked for me and formatted the USB drive which now works ok.

Hope this helps.

geraldandannie · Moderator

There was a comment a number of posts back about switching off the drive before you unplug it.

These pen drives are not really hot-swappable. Yes, you can plug them and unplug them at will, and it will work 99% of the time. But there's always that 1% or even 0.1%.

Down at the very bottom right of the screen is a little symbol with a green arrow at the top of it. Before you remove the stick, do a left-click on it, and then click on the text that says "Safely remove ...", and wait until it says "Safe to remove ..." before unplugging it. Doing this switches off the power to the device before you unplug it.

And backing up. Please don't do as a teacher at a school did, and consign highly valuable reports and letters and other sensitive documents to it "for safety", without having another copy somewhere else. Guess which teacher trod on their memory stick just before Christmas? Rolling Eyes

Gerald