jump drive problems.. need help

[rockdragon]

so i went around transferring files throughout my work the other day. i exported files such as bookmarks, docs, and email files out of outlook.

as i went to import the email files back into the new outlook. it gave me and error saying that the files were corrupt. so i ran this thing called scanpst.exe. i ran it n it came up with errors and i tried to fix them. well that froze. so i ended the task... bad idea...

after that my jump drive became corrupt. i couldnt copy any files off it or open anything. so i ran a check disk on it. that seemed to fix it temporarily.

well the next day i put it in my computer and it wont work. the 'working' light is constantly on and i cant access it at all. it shows up in my computer, but has the default name 'removable disk.' when i try to open it it says 'please insert a disk into drive e:' even though its still in.

please help... i cant do anything with my drive anymore.

 

[rockdragon]

bump

 

[sirholio]

what about a format, will it let you do that? I assume that data still exists elsewhere.

 

[rockdragon]

nope. when i try to format it, it still says please insert a disk in to the drive.

 

[Mike Clements]

See if you can use a drive recovery/partition recovery tool from the OS. If this won't work, see if a DOS based utility will see it and format it or recover the partition.

 

[rockdragon]

DOS wont pick it up at all. Neither will XP.