It's some 64MB chip inside so you will be wasting your time on this one. Hopefully the time I've saved you will pay for any other stick.
Bob
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A friend of mine got me a USB thumbdrive on her recent trip to Hong Kong. The first time i inserted into the USB port on my laptop it worked fine, but when i tried to write some files onto it, my antivirus start popping out saying there's a worm/virus, not sure which one actually is on the thumbdrive.
So after ignoring these messages and choosing "Ignore" every single time, it still wont go away. Finally i started selecting "Delete" instead and after that the antivirus messages stopped popping up.
But that's when my problem started, the next time i tried to access the thumbdrive, it says i have to format it and i select ok. Then it gives me an error message, saying that the formatting of my thumbdrive could not be completed. When i checked Properties for the thumbdrive, it now shows that amound of disk space available and used are both 0 when its supposed to show 7.85GB.
Then whenever i double clicked on the thumbdrive, it gives me this error message "Please insert disk into drive G". I dont even know what that means or what am i supposed to do.
I then thought of going to the manufacturers website to download a tool or utility to solve this problem, but this thumbdrive happens to be one of those anonymous made thumbdrives. It is printed on the thumbdrive the word "SONY" and "Micro Vault" but when i went to Sony's website, non of the Micro Vault thumbdrives looked like the one that I have.
My laptop uses WinXP SP2 Home edition and i've tried the thumbdrive on all of 3 USB ports, and also on my sister's desktop but still to no avail.
Can anyone help me out here, because it would be a real shame if i have to throw away this 8GB thumbdrive.
Thanks.
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