Sandisk USB Cruzer Flash Drive

[LED]

I use the Cruiser to put in proggies for new builds...wll I accidentally left it plugged in on 1 while installing XP and it wiped clean.

It reads as a Removable Drive but with 0 Capacity...Disk Management won't Format it nor check for errors...Any Help to bring it back to 1 Gig in FAT32 would be appreciated

 

[DaveSimmons]

I assume you checked the support area at SanDisk.com? They hopefully have a knowledge base article on this.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

interesting..have sent you SanDisk CruzerLock Installer v1.1 zipped from my yahoo email..hope that helps might be best to do in a FAT environment(98 or Me or an XP FAT setup) ..please update on this..thanks <edit> seems that won't help..can do it under 98 according to SanDisk like Dave suggested..hmm<edit 2> appears that Windows Server 2003 uses FAT12 for formatting floppy disks and FAT32 for formatting flash media..

 

[LED]

Yep...Sandisks Phone support sucks and emailed them yesterday but no response...

Thanks ScrapSilicon I never saved it and am now trying to use smart recovery and adding programs on the new Putes via Optical Drives.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: LED
Yep...Sandisks Phone support sucks and emailed them yesterday but no response...

Thanks ScrapSilicon I never saved it and am now trying to use smart recovery and adding programs on the new Putes via Optical Drives.

well from what I've garnered so far I haven't done you a favor(seems the CruzerLock prog sucks ) ..nm..didn't do what needed to be done

 

[LED]

LOL...yea I just tried to install it and all it wrote after a few attempt was "Goodbye" :roll:

I tried PC Inspector Smart Recovery and it reads the Sectors but thats about all

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Man that sucks....

Heres to hoping someone has the answer for you! :beer:

 

[LED]

Me also as I've tried various programs to no avail...(ie.Partition Magic, Norton Disk Doctor).
It seems to me if I get no answer then it's RMA time

 

[Blain]

Stop by Bill's place and ask him WTF is he going to do about HIS OS trashing your hardware. :laugh:

 

[LED]

Bump before I RMA it for replacement

 

[MyName]

You might try Card Wiper to nuke it and then reformat, I've saved some badly formatted Smartmedia that way

 

[saltedeggman]

interesting topic....

anyone find a way to save it ?

 

[LED]

Thanks for the added response...as 1 last resort I decided to try the following which worked !

Put in Windows ME CD (Windows 98SE Floppy prolly would work)...
Went to FDisk and then to Disk 2
Deletd the Partition and installed DOS
Rebooted to XP and formatted to FAT16 (had a choice of FAT32 as well)
Bingo... SanDisk 1Gig Ponied up and has 976MB... working fine