PAB
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The problem I have was to do with a power cut that I had briefly this afternoon.
After the power cut, I managed to get the computer up and running without any problems, thankfully.
When the power cut happened I was actually doing a "Cut & Paste" from my hard drive to the USB. I checked the hard drive for the file just out of curiosity and the file had gone, so obviously just before the power cut the file had almost finished the transfer. I thought that this would cause disk errors so I have done the following, but to no avail.
I re-inserted the "Kingston 32GB USB" drive and the drivers installed OK.
I then got a message saying "You need to format the disk in drive E: before you can use it." I clicked format to see what would happen and it gave me a the message...
Windows can't format E:\
Check to see that the disk and drive are connected properly, make sure that the disk is not read-only, and try again.
I checked the "GENERIC USB Mass Storage USB Device" in Device Manager under "Disk Drives" and found that it was present so at least it can be seen!
In Removable Disk (E
Properties in the "General" tab it has NO description, "Used Space" = 0 bytes, "Free Space" = 0 bytes and "Capacity" = 0 bytes.
It says that "This device is working properly".
I also ran CHKDSK E: /F /R /X, where E: is the drive letter for the USB external drive on my computer...
/F fixes the error on the disk
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
/X Forces the volume to dismount if necessary
...but nothing seemed to happen.
In "Run" I typed in "cmd" and then typed in "E:" and it told me "The parameter is incorrect".
I have tried other USB's and they are fine.
I downloaded "iCare Data Recovey" but that was no good unfortunately.
Should there not be MBR or something on the FAT32 USB drive or something???
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
After the power cut, I managed to get the computer up and running without any problems, thankfully.
When the power cut happened I was actually doing a "Cut & Paste" from my hard drive to the USB. I checked the hard drive for the file just out of curiosity and the file had gone, so obviously just before the power cut the file had almost finished the transfer. I thought that this would cause disk errors so I have done the following, but to no avail.
I re-inserted the "Kingston 32GB USB" drive and the drivers installed OK.
I then got a message saying "You need to format the disk in drive E: before you can use it." I clicked format to see what would happen and it gave me a the message...
Windows can't format E:\
Check to see that the disk and drive are connected properly, make sure that the disk is not read-only, and try again.
I checked the "GENERIC USB Mass Storage USB Device" in Device Manager under "Disk Drives" and found that it was present so at least it can be seen!
In Removable Disk (E
Properties in the "General" tab it has NO description, "Used Space" = 0 bytes, "Free Space" = 0 bytes and "Capacity" = 0 bytes.It says that "This device is working properly".
I also ran CHKDSK E: /F /R /X, where E: is the drive letter for the USB external drive on my computer...
/F fixes the error on the disk
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
/X Forces the volume to dismount if necessary
...but nothing seemed to happen.
In "Run" I typed in "cmd" and then typed in "E:" and it told me "The parameter is incorrect".
I have tried other USB's and they are fine.
I downloaded "iCare Data Recovey" but that was no good unfortunately.
Should there not be MBR or something on the FAT32 USB drive or something???
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
