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#1 2008-10-20 02:24:57

Raccoon1400
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flash drive dead?

My dad's 4 GB duracell flash drive no longer works.
I plug it in, and it show up in "computer" as USB drive, but when I click on it, It says "no media in the drive".
fdisk -l does not see it.
Gparted doesn't see it either.

In XP, it shows up in my computer and disk manager, but when you click on it in my computer, it says to insert media into the drive.
In disk management, it shows the drive with "no media" under it.

How could this have happened and can it be saved?


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#2 2008-10-20 03:13:39

dsr
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Re: flash drive dead?

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but perhaps it's used up all its write/erase cycles? If so, I don't think it can be saved. How old is it?

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#3 2008-10-20 19:35:32

Raccoon1400
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Re: flash drive dead?

dsr wrote:

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but perhaps it's used up all its write/erase cycles? If so, I don't think it can be saved. How old is it?

Not very. Less than a year, I think. I don't even think it was heavily used. How long should these things last?


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#4 2008-10-20 20:46:21

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Re: flash drive dead?

I'd guess about five years. hmm

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#5 2008-10-21 22:50:17

Raccoon1400
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Re: flash drive dead?

bump


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#6 2008-10-22 08:44:39

vacant
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Re: flash drive dead?

Sounds dead. Anything in "dmesg" when you connect it?

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#7 2008-10-22 10:33:06

Raccoon1400
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Re: flash drive dead?

vacant wrote:

Sounds dead. Anything in "dmesg" when you connect it?

Yeah, this. The drive it's self seems to show up places, but the storage space  its self is nowhere to be found.

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB DISK 30X     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

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#8 2008-10-22 10:35:13

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Re: flash drive dead?

Raccoon1400 wrote:
vacant wrote:

Sounds dead. Anything in "dmesg" when you connect it?

Yeah, this. The drive it's self seems to show up places, but the storage space  its self is nowhere to be found. It's like it's an empty shell.

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB DISK 30X     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

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#9 2008-10-22 13:59:51

vacant
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Re: flash drive dead?

I get a lot more information when I plug in an old usb1.1 flash drive ("unknown partition table" is because it's a puppy installation in "super floppy mode"):

usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     STF      Flash Drive      1.89 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
ready
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 512000 512-byte hardware sectors (262 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 512000 512-byte hardware sectors (262 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdc: unknown partition table
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

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