Post by: Steve_J on March 20, 2009, 01:18:37 AM
I've come across a problem I can't figure out.
(So what else is new. Isn't that why we came here in the first place?)I recently purchased a 32Gb Kingston Flash Drive that I wanted to use for backing up my primary. So far, so good. I plugged it in to my USB port and it popped right up. I copied some files to it and that seemed to work also. So what's the problem you say? Well, a short time later and for no apparent reason, isn't that always the case, it disappeared from the desktop never to be seen again.
Here's what I've done to attempt to recover. I opened up Disk Utility and there it was in the listed volumes. I selected it and ran First Aid. Uh, Oh. Error, Error with the following message, "The underlying task reported failure on exit!. So I ran Erase and that worked and so did partioning. Still no drive on the desktop, so I rebooted. Disk Error with the following message, "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."
To make a short story long. After repeating the same procedure in various combinations, Run First Aid, run Erase, run Partition, reboot, with the same results, I'm at a loss.
I need some help here. Any ideas?
Post by: gunug on March 20, 2009, 05:06:29 AM
Good luck with this and welcome back!
Post by: Steve_J on March 20, 2009, 10:10:37 AM
QUOTE(gunug @ Mar 20 2009, 02:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You don't say what computer, OS Version, or flash drive you are using but I have seen this happen upon occasion. The fact that it worked at first means that you probably have a good format on it although a friend of mine does format his flashdrives (8G or higher) with NTFS for use with XP and Vista (boo). I have had some USB connected drives that were stubborn and what has seemed to work for me is booting up in safe mode (holding down the shift key) with the thing plugged in the first time and then see if it doesn't come up that time or a second time when you boot up. I've also seen permission/preference problems mess up mounting external drives as well (I use AppleJack on my systems to fix such things).
Good luck with this and welcome back!
Good luck with this and welcome back!
My computer is a Cube running OS 10.4.9 The drive is a 32 Gb Kingston DataTraveler Flash drive
Post by: Steve_J on March 20, 2009, 09:49:56 PM
So now the question is, what up with that? Why will it format in DOS and not Mac?
Post by: krissel on March 21, 2009, 05:19:42 AM
http://www.kingston.com/support/howtodt/default.asp?type=m3
However, in Googling I did find people with problems trying to access their large GB Kingston drives. I have a feeling they may need to rework their hardware. One foreign site dealt with counterfeit drives.
http://www.fixya.com/support/t1800822-pen_...t_formatted_any
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-37343-6...file-disappears
Post by: sandbox on March 21, 2009, 11:15:54 AM
Post by: Steve_J on March 21, 2009, 01:30:26 PM
QUOTE(krissel @ Mar 21 2009, 02:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
However, in Googling I did find people with problems trying to access their large GB Kingston drives. I have a feeling they may need to rework their hardware. One foreign site dealt with counterfeit drives.
I contacted Kingston and it turns out my drive is counterfeit. So now I will try to get my money back.
For anyone purchasing DT100 or DT150 larte capacity "Kingston" drives, look on the USB connector. According to their tech support, the part number is etched into the connector.
Caveat Emptor!
Post by: chriskleeman on March 21, 2009, 01:51:27 PM
That really stinks that you were sold a counterfeit drive, but I guess it's a somewhat more simple fix in the end!
I hope you get your money back, and we thank you for the heads-up on that one
Chris K
Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 21, 2009, 02:31:40 PM
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the part number is etched into the connector
That makes interweb/mail ordering rather tricky...
Post by: jcarter on March 25, 2009, 06:56:29 AM
Jane
Post by: Steve_J on March 26, 2009, 02:46:02 PM
QUOTE(jcarter @ Mar 25 2009, 03:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Where did you buy it?
Jane
Jane
I purchased it on eBay. I will tell you what vendor as soon as the resolution is complete. So far they have been very cooperative.
I have had very good luck on eBay. I've been buying electronics there for years and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times something has gone wrong. I can remember only once getting "scrued" and that was with an electronics game I purchased for a Christmas present that never showed up.
I say "cavere emptor". (Buyer be careful)
Post by: jcarter on March 26, 2009, 03:49:17 PM
There has been a rash of big new TVs stolen from summer houses around here, and one family came for the weekend and found theirs gone, cops came and they made the report and all. Then they went on ebay to get another TV, and found one they wanted, looked at where it would be shipped from, yes indeed, right about 15 miles away, in the 'bad' part of town.
Called the cops back, and they got a warrant and found 60 stolen TVs in the cellar of that rental. ANd the TV that belonged to the people from here was there.
Jane
Post by: Steve_J on April 02, 2009, 09:50:41 PM
Post by: krissel on April 03, 2009, 02:09:48 AM
Post by: jcarter on April 03, 2009, 07:00:58 AM
Jane