USB flash memory

[Neil Winchurst]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:21:44 -0500
"Greg Booth" <bootgr at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Greg Booth wrote:
> >
> > > On 7/31/07, Neil Winchurst <neil at holsdev.vispa.com> wrote:
> > >> I have never tried using any flash memory sticks or such like. Does
> > >> anyone have any comments, warnings, advice etc please?
> > >>
> > >> (Kubuntu Edgy, if that is useful).
> reformatted it fat32 and copied everything back.
> > >
> 
> Had the same problem here. Was in a huge rush, said "ah it won't do
> anything !" yanked it, got to work and look at that ! NO FILES !! It
> asked me if I wanted to format it; of course canceled out of that.
> Went out and downloaded a nice free program ( yes, windows, but I
> couldn't find anything else ! ) and recovered all the files from it,
> reformatted it fat32 and copied everything back.
> 
> It took me five HOURS to fix it, but no it wasn't completely dead. And
> if I didn't already have the know how to mess with stuff like this ( 5
> am trying to figure out how to get into that unbootable hard drive to
> recover data ) I'd have probably given up and bought a new one and
> pronounced it dead.
> 
> Greg
> 
Thanks to everyone for the advice. I will certainly remember to unmount
it properly and to make sure that it has finished downloading first.
I'll have a look in my local computer shop tomorrow. They seem much
cheaper than I expected.

Neil