A-DATA PD4 2GB Flash Drive formating problem

[GEOrifle]

Hi, i have A-DATA PD4 2GB Flash Drive and it was working without any problems.
Yesterday i removed it by accident from working pc and it became corrupted, reformated it by system administrator tools but now it became regular HDD(shows like thise) and not like FLASH Drive.
APP's from A-DATA's site can't recognise drive and i don't know how to return it to FLASH mode.
Any help?


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[corkyg]

I don't understand the point. When you formatted the drive, you lost your branded volume label. Just go back and change it to what it was.

(My Computer, right click on drive and do the Rename to change the Label to A-DATA PD4.)

Windows sees all flash drives as lettered drives. The volume label comes from the device.

And, you can go to the web site and download the complete User's Manual (CHinese or English) and it explains how to restore using their "FORMAT.EXE" program. You may have to download that also.

PD4

 

[GEOrifle]

Before it was shown like FLASH DRIVE, now like HDD.
Driver from A-DATA works just for WINDOWS 98 systems, utilites for thise drive CAN'T
recognise NON USB drives, and drive now is HDD and not USB.
This is my point.

 

[corkyg]

My point is, so what? The drive still functions, and it happened because you formatted it. Did you really need to do that?

Where are you seeing HDD as opposed to whatever? Have you tried renaming it to A-DATA?

 

[GEOrifle]

yes , i renamed it but without any results. Do you think it's gone like Flash Drive?

 

[corkyg]

OK - let's go back. The answer is right there but you didn't see it. You looked at the DRIVER, which is for Win98 basically, but nothing else. Here it is, step by step:

1. Go to the ADATA.COM web site.
2. Do a "Search by Product."
3. Select Category - Flash
4. Select Type - Disk
5. Select Model - PD4

That will bring up a download menu with three areas. At the top is DRIVER. Forget that!

Next is Manual. I suggest you download the PDF file and read it.

Last is PROGRAM. This the one you need in order to restore your A-Data partitions and Security functions. The program is 741K - not a huge download.

Get it!

 

[GEOrifle]

That's the problem: A-DATA formating APP can't see NON USB Drives( it's now an HDD), i tried it.

 

[corkyg]

OK - I don't know how a USB drive cannot be a USB drive. Have you right clicked on it, then Properties, and then POLICIES, and optimize for QUICK RELEASE? It's worth a shot.

Last resort - call A-Data and see if you can send it to them for rescucitation.

 

[GEOrifle]

Yes i did, nothing's changed, drive type: REMOVABLE DRIVE !

I called to A-Data's tech support, no one was picking the phone up, then i used trick cslled to sales person and ask them to connect tech.support, thise worked. They promiced me replace it and send an email how-to. I guess i need to pay Shipping-Handling fees.
How much they will charge by mail from New York to California? Does it worth ?

 

[corkyg]

Good move. Priority Mail from NY to CA should be less then $5 for a flash device. That will fit in a small padded envelope. Definitely worth it. Just compare the mailing cost to that of buying a new one.