Bakhtier asks:
I have USB pen drive Silicon power 4 GB. Recently, I had a problem with it. When I plug it in, it showed that software is installing. On my computer it displayed as removable drive, but by double clicking I get a message insert a drive and properties showed that it is unrecognized file system and with 0 bytes data. How can I restore my pen drive?
6 Answers -
Anonymous
April 9, 2011Make sure that the lock/unlock switch (if present) is set to the unlock position
The best will be to format it again, choose FAT32 system file.
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml
Once/before it’s formatted, you can try some data recovery tools to try and recover any data you had on it.
http://easeus.com/partition-recovery/
April 10, 2011One more point, I can’t format it! It just says please insert drive.
April 10, 2011Here is the detailed explanation of my error without a solution. Who can give me the exact step by step solution?
April 10, 2011http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=689656
Bakhtier
Peepen_skaunt
April 10, 2011you can try CHECK FLASH. you can find more information and the DL link here: http://mikelab.kiev.ua/index_en.php?page=PROGRAMS/chkflsh_en – hope it helps.
Anonymous
April 11, 2011Hope that your usb key is not broken one.
Have you tried your usb key in another pc, if there works then just format it and ty it again on your pc.
USB port may stop working after you remove or insert a USB device
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817900
you should try shutting down the computer and literally disconnecting the powercord from the powersupply then reconnect after a few minutes and start up the computer again!
JetFlash OnlinE Recovery from Transcend
http://www.transcendusa.com/products/online_recovery.asp
Neo 9 tool
http://www.box.net/shared/9hgp81ndgs
Bakhtier
April 11, 2011I have tried in another PC, and in Mac as well. No result. I couldn’t wait till everyone writes me a solution. I went to IT guy, and he restored my USB drive. Now it works. I lost all the data. I don’t know what he did. But as soon as I will get the info. I will let know everyone.
Thank you for the feedback, Bakhtier! Looking forward to hearing what the IT wiz did with your flash drive to fix it.
April 11, 2011I talked to him and he gave following file https://rapidshare.com/files/457703395/SMI_SM3255TS_MPTool_v2.03.30_v11.rar
he told me that he restored the filesystem using this tool. don’t know what tool it is, i have mac.
April 16, 2011Tina
April 16, 2011Thanks a lot for your response and sharing the file! Unfortunately, it can only be downloaded by RapidShare Pro members.
sorry, thought it will work, here is one more link http://www.fileserve.com/file/CsYZgQ9
April 16, 2011Bharathi
March 24, 2012When i insert my pen drive in a system after i open its formatting how to solve this..