problem with 1 gig memory stick

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skinlab

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ive using a sony micro vault, 1 gig

i formatted it yesterday into fat32 format before using it (had some data on it) and i can transfer data on it fine, however when i remove it and plug it back in or into another computer, around 3/4 of the files are corrupted and unreadable

any clue why its doing that?

any help would be great

ive got 3 of these thumb drives, and all have been formatted, i havent tried the other 2 yet though

if it is corrupted, any way to fix it or no way at all?

cheers.
 
Smack me with the stupid stick, but I've never formatted a thumb drive. Could a bad / incompatible format be your problem...??

Regards - B.B.S.
 
thing is it detects fine and copies fine, its odd that the files are corrupt

tried about 3 other formats and still not working

just tried one of the other sticks and got the same result

this really blows, any ideas for help?
 
Did you use the safely remove hardware function in windows, OR did you just unplug the drive? Sometimes windows will cache a lot of what's being written to the drive if it's a large amount and it will appear done but in reality will still be transfering.
 
safely removed it, always do with all the plug and play stuff

its really odd that even the format isnt fixing anything...
 
Have you tried different brands? I know you tried other sticks. I would lean towards a driver/hardware issue with the USB at this point from what I'm reading from you.
 
Having played with about 30 different brands/sizes of these thumb drives (at work), I never seen this issue. I will go see if we have a microdrive 1 gig and test.

Question: Are you using the drivers supplied or just letting windows call it a mass storage? Might try the other way.

-zoo

 
well the drive was a giveaway so no drivers were included, i let windows configure it

the other thumb drive i have is of a different brand, its only 128megs however but it works fine (i formatted it into NTFS)

the thing about these 1gigs is they will only format into FAT or FAT32 but not NTFS

ill see if i can find some drivers from sony or something, although its not likely since im using winxp...

thanks for the help so far fellas
 
update:

i found formatting software on the sony asia pacific site and downloaded it, apprently this is a widespread problem with these microvaults

to my dismay however, the formatting software would not detect the drives (eventhough windows did and accessed it fine)

i tried the same on my laptop but to no avail

i might just send them to sony and have them send me new ones, this is ridiculous

my only other option is to have the formatting software downloaded on a MAC and have the drives formatted there, but that will have to wait til sunday...
 
The ones we had at work, worked fine. I spoke with the techs who have done a lot of testing and they had no issues when they used those.
 
i'm gonna try and format them tomorrow using a MAC and see how they run then, hopefully itll fix the problem

its just annoying because i couldve really used those....
 
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