VirtualLarry
No Lifer
http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2017/10/adata-usb-flash-drive-online-recovery-tool.html
I never could get Adata's site to spit out the necessary programs that you need to recover / re-format / re-flash their flash drives. It requires you to enter a serial number, but the serial number on the drive itself, is longer than the website form accepts.
This guide spells it out, if it begins with a numeral, enter the first 8 digits. It worked!
I was able to use the SMI High-Level Format Tool that it spit out for my older Yellow/Black Adata UV128 16GB flash drives, several of which I purchased, during a time period in which the packaging did NOT indicate compatibility with Windows 10, and subsequently, the drives are not properly detected under Windows 10, and fail to show up as a drive letter. Something about cannot load driver.
Anyways, after using a Windows 7 64-bit machine (they do show up under Windows 7 properly, and Linux, and BIOS), I was able to use the SMI formatting tool, to apparently re-flash the firmware and re-initialize the drive, so that now, it works in Windows 10!.
So happy to finally find a solution, and now I'm not out the money for these flash drives. If only I could find the few that I opened before that didn't work in Windows 10, so I could flash them as well.
I never could get Adata's site to spit out the necessary programs that you need to recover / re-format / re-flash their flash drives. It requires you to enter a serial number, but the serial number on the drive itself, is longer than the website form accepts.
This guide spells it out, if it begins with a numeral, enter the first 8 digits. It worked!
I was able to use the SMI High-Level Format Tool that it spit out for my older Yellow/Black Adata UV128 16GB flash drives, several of which I purchased, during a time period in which the packaging did NOT indicate compatibility with Windows 10, and subsequently, the drives are not properly detected under Windows 10, and fail to show up as a drive letter. Something about cannot load driver.
Anyways, after using a Windows 7 64-bit machine (they do show up under Windows 7 properly, and Linux, and BIOS), I was able to use the SMI formatting tool, to apparently re-flash the firmware and re-initialize the drive, so that now, it works in Windows 10!.
So happy to finally find a solution, and now I'm not out the money for these flash drives. If only I could find the few that I opened before that didn't work in Windows 10, so I could flash them as well.
