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Flash Drive went bad

sactoking

sactoking

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I ordered a Super Talent Pico flash drive off of Amazon. I formatted it to NTFS yesterday and used it for Readyboost. I also installed a program called LOTRO Flashboost. I am using Vista x64.

Today when I tried to boot up, the computer wouldn't post with the drive installed. When I removed it, it booted to desktop just fine. When I'm at the desktop and insert the drive, Vista can't recognize it. The Start/Stop Device box comes up and lists it as "USB Mass Storage Device/Ut 165 USB2FlashStorage USB Device". Vista won't assign it a drive letter, so I can't get into it to reformat. In the Device Manager, it IS listed as a Disk Drive named "Ut 165 USB2FlashStorage USB Device", but when I try to update the driver is says the driver for "Disk Drive" is most current. Finding Vista drivers for a USB flash drive has been ridiculous, since they're built into Vista.

I'm not sure what went wrong or why the drive doesn't work now. Any help would be appreciated!

Update: 1/12/09- vendor accepted RMA. I didn't want to send it back, but it was impossible to fix.
 
Well, I can't format it. Neither my x64 nor my x86 Vista computer will recognize it. I brought it in to work today and the XP rig here does the same thing: loads "USB Mass Storage Device/Ut 165 USB2FlashStorage USB Device" but doesn't assign it a drive letter and it doesn't show in the Disk Manager.

At home, on Vista, if I try to 'stop' the drive the computer hangs. At work, on XP, if I try to 'stop' the drive I get an error message that the drive can't be stopped.

I guess I could RMA it, but I literally only had it one day.
 
No, it does not.

I tried stopping it in XP, and that's when I got the 'drive can't be stopped' error. After that, the listing changed from "USB Mass Storage Device/Ut 165 USB2FlashStorage USB Device" to "USB Mass Storage Device/Unknown Drive/Disk Drive". As of right now, it CAN be stopped using the proper dialogue box. Also, the drive DOES show up under "My Computer" now. It is listed as "Other/Local Disk F:". There is a red question mark on it. When I right click and go to 'Properties' it's listed as a Local Disk with file type RAW. Free and used space are both 0 bytes. It still does not show up under Storage in Disk Manager.
 
Apparently Vista's version of Diskpart.exe can see USB Flash Drives. You might try that and see what it can do, since it has abilities that Disk Management doesn't.
 
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