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Question

Flash Drive issue

Oct 19, 2014 3:19AM PDT

I have an acer laptop, 500gb hard drive , windows 7.
As i have tons of music/video on my drive and hate to see them vanish if my laptop dies or gets stolen I got some 32gb flash drives to store them on. Things started out ok, files were saved and playable (some video wasn't after copying to flash) but then it just seems to lose stuff after i eject it. I played some music from the flash and after I ejected it and plugged it back it showed the "file empty" thing. when i clicked on "computer" it showed the remote drive and how full it was but the files were gone ( the new ones at least).
Any help is always appreciated!

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There are fake drives that do that.
Oct 19, 2014 3:29AM PDT

Did you use any of the fake drive testers?

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No
Oct 19, 2014 6:17AM PDT

Never heard of them. I had 15gb's on it and they were ok no matter what I did, just adding after that they seemed to go away.

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My advice is two things.
Oct 19, 2014 7:25AM PDT
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thx
Oct 19, 2014 8:52AM PDT

doesn't formatting erase the drive though?

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Since you never leave your last copy on any one thing
Oct 19, 2014 9:11AM PDT

You can copy it back after formatting.

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yes
Oct 19, 2014 7:40AM PDT

it shows that they have 30499mb of space.

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I always back up to external hard drives
Oct 19, 2014 3:56AM PDT

When you can buy a 1 TB external hard drive these days for around $50, you're much better off using something like that for backup. Hard drives are much faster and just as reliable.

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Good point!
Oct 19, 2014 6:18AM PDT

I was more concerned about portability too- but maybe an external one is in my future!