Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose.

[Jamie White <jatos.software@gmail.com>]

I would suspect you need a specialist application to sort this, thing is, when you plug in a disk drive, the system uses information from the first sector to identify the drive and its size. You get a similar problem when you zero out an entire hard disk, and there the solution is to manually enter into the bios the hard drive.

What I suspect has happened in your case, is a wrap around when writing to drive has overwritten the first sector.

Jamie

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:

Le 26/05/2017 à 23:06, Martin McCormick a écrit :

        I have a 128 GB thumb drive which has been sitting in a
drawer for 2 or 3 years because it is not completely dead but had
a traumatic event.

(...)

The drive is dead. The controller is still responding but the storage part is gone. Don't waste any more time with it.

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Jamie