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    U3 drive wont open, getting error message

    ok im gonna be honest with you.
    i have U3 drive with some hacking software on the drive itself and it worked fine for awhile. but now i get this error message saying that the U3Cd drive is corrupted and the flash drive is not recognized by windows. i have tried to format it to fat32 but it cant. I've tried uninstalling the drivers but that doesnt work. any help is appreciated.
    thanks
    Penguin68
    Tags: error, problems, switchblade, u3 drive
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    Re: U3 drive wont open, getting error message

    Originally posted by Penguin68 View Post
    ok im gonna be honest with you.
    i have U3 drive with some hacking software on the drive itself and it worked fine for awhile. but now i get this error message saying that the U3Cd drive is corrupted and the flash drive is not recognized by windows. i have tried to format it to fat32 but it cant. I've tried uninstalling the drivers but that doesnt work. any help is appreciated.
    thanks
    Penguin68
    Flash based memory has a limited number of writes before it fails completely. Chances are the device is just plain dead.

    You do have a backup of it, don't you?
    A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.

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      Re: U3 drive wont open, getting error message

      More than likely the software got munched by some anti-virus and it got a bit overzealous and would'nt properly unmount. I've had it happen to mine. Moving the tools to the CD-rom portion of the drive at least kept AV from trying any write cycles that might screw things up on removal
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        Re: U3 drive wont open, getting error message

        Originally posted by renderman View Post
        More than likely the software got munched by some anti-virus and it got a bit overzealous and would'nt properly unmount. I've had it happen to mine. Moving the tools to the CD-rom portion of the drive at least kept AV from trying any write cycles that might screw things up on removal
        o haha ok yea that seems like it. when ever i tested it, Symantic popped p and yelled at me haha. so yea thats probably it. well im gonna take the drive back to bestBuy and play dumb. thanks for the info guys

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          Re: U3 drive wont open, getting error message

          Originally posted by Penguin68 View Post
          ok im gonna be honest with you.
          i have U3 drive with some hacking software on the drive itself and it worked fine for awhile. but now i get this error message saying that the U3Cd drive is corrupted and the flash drive is not recognized by windows. i have tried to format it to fat32 but it cant. I've tried uninstalling the drivers but that doesnt work. any help is appreciated.
          thanks
          Penguin68
          im new to the whole hacking thing but i would recomend doing a disk cleanup and dfragment then using the run programe on ur start bar to try opening it
          good luck from digit
          p.s. if u have any hacking tips i would be very gratful
          Digit

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          • #6
            Re: U3 drive wont open, getting error message

            If you're thinking about taking it back to best buy, it can't be that old. There's no way it's been written to enough to kill it. Fire up a QtParted boot disk and format it that way. After that you should be able to reset the U3 software.

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