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12 11th, 2008| 
How can you repair a thumb drive or external USB drive?
Once one of these goes bad it most likely will not be able to be accessed again. That is why I am writing this article. I have now seen two times were I was asked to get information off of a USB thumb drive (or back up media using USB). I could not do it. The drive was not accessible.
Here’s the deal!!
If a removable-storage device is formatted with the FAT16 file system and users eject the device approximately 5-8 seconds after data was written to the device, they will have abandoned the write-flush delay on FAT16 file systems. This can lead to unexpected consequences.
- A user’s storage device might remain in the “non-flushed” state.
- Users might lose data that is stored on their removable-storage device or not be able to access it.
- Users might experience problems or receive error messages when they insert the removable-storage device into other host devices.
In short, don’t eject removable media immediately. Especially just after you moved files to it. Wait five to ten seconds after you edited or moved files associated with a USB device.
