128GB Flash Thumbdrive !?

[excaliber]

All,

I have been having problems with my OS all week. I performed a clean install on my machine and everything seems to be alright.

But, I have a problem with my Sony gigavault flash drive. Last time I used it was to store approximately 15 software drivers for my Sony laptop.

When I finished storing all of these drivers into the flashdrive, I conected the thumbdrive into the USB port in my laptop to run the drivers intal files.

Well, I didn't want to acces the drive. It said that it needed to be format. When i try formatting the flashdrive it says its 128gb and it fails to format.

How can I format this thumbdrive?

Why is it reporting 100% of used space when you right-click the drive 'G', and 100% un-used space when you go to 'Administrative Tools>Computer management>disk management'???

This is supposed to be a 2gig flashdrive, I just bought it not more than 2 weeks ago, and have used it probably 4-5 times.

 

[timmer]

well pal ur outta luck all ur drivers are gona im pretty sure but u need to reformat the the drive like u said so u go my computer right click it and go down to formatand if that dont work take it back and get a new one i have a 2gb monster drive i think and it was like 120$ and its a spinning disc think thought but it works great!!!!!!

 

[Wayniac]

Wow... 2 GB. Ever use that much? I got a 512 MB when I bought mine just figuring if I needed anything bigger, I'll put it on a DVD.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

There might be a driver you need to install for that.... Like a USB mass storage driver......

 

[excaliber]

There might be a driver you need to install for that.... Like a USB mass storage driver......

I know. The flash pen came with a mini disc which has a driver for Win98. Apparently there are no required drivers for XP.

And yes, I do need 2 gigs. Once you realize that you have a mini device that can carry 2 gigs worth of data, youll be storing almost anything, from music files to full applications.

There has to be a recovery tool out there that will help me format this flash drive and bring it back to normal.

 

[bla!!]

Have you tried to format it on any other computers?

It sounds to me like you might've pulled it out of a machine before stopping it through windows. I had issues with mine when I did it on accident.

I wound up having to go to a different machine to re-format it.

 

[excaliber]

Have you tried to format it on any other computers?

It sounds to me like you might've pulled it out of a machine before stopping it through windows. I had issues with mine when I did it on accident.

I wound up having to go to a different machine to re-format it.

I have tried on a Win2000 pc and still would not format.

But the way WinXP works is that you shouldn't have to worry about un-safely disconnecting hardware from the computer. I could be wrong...

 

[SHAWN]

anybody else notice that he is talking about 128 GB or am i missing something? I thought the highest out was 2gb.

 

[Hacp]

Hes saying that the computer recognizes his thumb drive as 128 gb when it is only 2 gb.