anyone ever have a portable USB flash drive fail on them?

[edprush]

I always felt that the thing was getting banged up too much against my keys.

It's a 128mb Lexar. The light still comes on when I plug it in to the USB port but the PC doesn't recognize it.

 

[Heisenberg]

Not me, but a friend of mine had one die on him. Nothing would happen when you plugged it into the USB port.

 

[SuperFreaky]

I've seen one in my time.

 

[edprush]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Not me, but a friend of mine had one die on him. Nothing would happen when you plugged it into the USB port.

The light on the flash drive lights up but Windows Explorer doesn't show the drive.

 

[keeleysam]

My freind's had his USB plug snap off when he pulled it out of the usb port.

 

[eigen]

Originally posted by: edprush

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Not me, but a friend of mine had one die on him. Nothing would happen when you plugged it into the USB port.

The light on the flash drive lights up but Windows Explorer doesn't show the drive.

I had the same model you did.It failed.

 

[BigB10293]

I've seen 100's of them. But then I work for a company that makes them.

 

[edprush]

Could my not being able to access the files on the USB jump drive be due to me not 'stopping' the device before I removed it last time?

 

[dullard]

Yes they can and do fail. They have a very short lifetime (maximum number of writes). But more often when I see this problem, it isn't the drive's fault. Windows sometimes gets messed up. Try it on another computer. If it works, then uninstall and reinstall your USB port drivers.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: edprush
Could my not being able to access the files on the USB jump drive be due to me not 'stopping' the device before I removed it last time?

Nah. I've had that cause it to recognize and demand to format the drive, killing my files, but it didn't kill the drive itself.

 

[Cheezeit]

Yeah, but a reformat fixed it

 

[HardcoreRobot]

yep

 

[JoeKing]

never!

I :heart: my PNY Attache 64 megger.

Had it for years now.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Yep. Recently had one lock the host comp when inserted and then produce odd error messages from which the comp would take a very long time to recover.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Haven't had one die on me yet.

 

[0roo0roo]

its solid state.. unless u break some connections it should be fine.

any way of measuring the number of writes?

 

[edprush]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: edprush
Could my not being able to access the files on the USB jump drive be due to me not 'stopping' the device before I removed it last time?

Nah. I've had that cause it to recognize and demand to format the drive, killing my files, but it didn't kill the drive itself.

Format your jump/flash drive or your hard drive?

 

[edprush]

there must be some type of data recovery service out there.........

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: edprush
there must be some type of data recovery service out there.........

Have you tried in in another computer yet?

 

[Kelemvor]

I've never had one stop working. Use it every day and it's just on my keybhain but only with one other key. Hav one of rhe Cruiser Mini things...

 

[jlee]

Mine hasn't failed yet either (256mb PNY attache)

 

[Dubb]

my lexar 256 died after about 8 months. same kinda problem. Couldn't format or anything, and tried it in several computers.

 

[JoeKing]

Originally posted by: CadetLee
Mine hasn't failed yet either (256mb PNY attache)

:thumbsup: these things are built to last I think. Mine has even gone through the washer and dryer a few times.

 

[ShadowBlade]

no, but i found one in a parking lot once

 

[cliftonite]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
no, but i found one in a parking lot once

Did you check to see if it had any homemade pron pics