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new type of problem with Kingston Flash drive

by anupent Dec 5, 2008 2:55PM PST

i have a 8 GB Kingston flash drive. My OS is win vista ultimate. I use intel 945G motherboard and intel centrino duo 1.6 GHz processor. I have 1.5 GB RAM.

My flash drive shows no problem on scanning and shows 7.9 GB free. When i copy files from hard-drive to the flash drive, it keeps copying for sometime and then suddenly coping window disappear. The red blinking light in the flash drive also stops blinking.

When i open my flash drives, i find all the files/folder structures as in harddrive but gives "error- the files are corrupted" notice when trying to open files.

I do not have similar problem with another 4 GB flash drive.

Please suggest me.

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Return it
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 5, 2008 11:20PM PST

There is a new file system in use past 4GB. It doesn't work on all machines.

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Kingston flash drive
by techkingston08 Dec 22, 2008 2:31AM PST

Hi anupent,

You should try to format the USB drive to see if that clears up the problem. If it doesn't then it has probably become defective and you should get it replaced with a new one.

Kingston Tech Support

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Look for eFAT format
by Willy Dec 22, 2008 7:17AM PST

Use eFAT or E\exFAT for the flash drive under the Vista OS. It should handle it better. Google for the eFAT solution which is suppose to handle flash drives greater than 4gb/nce, you leave 4gb realm, things get strange under the regular FAT or even NTFS. You will need to reformat and Vista will readily support this.

tada -----Willy Happy

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I think it's a fake
by fightflashfraud Feb 10, 2009 9:51PM PST

The problem you are experiencing is one that is normally encountered with fraudlently re-programmed flash drives. These have a much lower capacity than shown in the operating system and this causes file loss/corruption. See these blogs on wordpress - fightflashfraud and sosfakeflash to learn more.

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