shoosh Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 About a month ago I purchased a 16gb flash drive off eBay. I just recently passed the 1gb mark of used space and now nothing new will stay saved on the drive. Transferring it to the drive is fine, but once I unplug it and plug it back in, the file remains but it is always empty. This happens every time and I've tried with several different folders. I can't return it because the guy is no longer a member of eBay (how convenient!). I'm not extremely upset because I paid roughly the same amount as a 1gb flash drive would cost at the store, but I expected 16gb and now I have all these folders sitting around on my computer just taking up space. This isn't the product I have, but the packaging is identical. Does anyone know something I can do to fix this? I've already formatted it numerous times with everything being fine until I get to about 1.3gb used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted June 26, 2008 Moderators Share Posted June 26, 2008 I had a similar problem with a 1gb flash drive a while back. It suddenly decided it was only a 4.5mb drive, and nothing I tried could persuade it otherwise. Fortunately in my case it wasn't very old, and I took it back to PCWorld and they just replaced it. They didn't know any fix either. That's the best I can tell you, but if anyone knows different, I'll be keen to hear it to. Edit: Almost forgot, welcome to the forum shoosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomTinsley Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 About a month ago I purchased a 16gb flash drive off eBay. I just recently passed the 1gb mark of used space and now nothing new will stay saved on the drive. Transferring it to the drive is fine, but once I unplug it and plug it back in, the file remains but it is always empty. This happens every time and I've tried with several different folders. I can't return it because the guy is no longer a member of eBay (how convenient!). I'm not extremely upset because I paid roughly the same amount as a 1gb flash drive would cost at the store, but I expected 16gb and now I have all these folders sitting around on my computer just taking up space. This isn't the product I have, but the packaging is identical. Does anyone know something I can do to fix this? I've already formatted it numerous times with everything being fine until I get to about 1.3gb used. How did you format it??? FAT, FAT32, NTFS.. Reason I asked is (1)"In FAT32, the root directory is unlimited in size. What this means is that you can have as many files and directories in C:\> as you'd like. In the days of FAT16, you could have a maximum of 255 directory entries. That means that if you had normal filenames of 8 letters + 3 extensions, you have a maximum of 255 directories + files." footnote: (1) http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/filesystems2.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted June 28, 2008 Moderators Share Posted June 28, 2008 How did you format it??? FAT, FAT32, NTFS. I have mine formatted as FAT32. Even my PS3 can read and write to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted June 28, 2008 Moderators Share Posted June 28, 2008 Hmmm, ebay, member no longer active... could just be a 1 gb drive dressed as 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoosh Posted July 3, 2008 Author Share Posted July 3, 2008 Thanks for trying everyone. I guess there's nothing I can do to fix it. At least I didn't pay too much money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speczorz Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Almost looks like something that was made on the black market. Try contacting the seller and getting a replacement. If that fails, I would open a dispute with Paypal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbrianx Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 How did you remove it? Did you just pull it out of the USB port? I had similar problems like this on my Computer Art class' eMacs(Apple). When I would drag a file to the folder, then remove the drive, it'd give me an error saying that the file was either corrupted or didn't save properly. I found out that I need to drag the drive icon to the Trashcan, then remove it. Maybe you have to "Safely Remove" it? Worth a try I suppose. Check out NewEgg.com. I bought a 4GB drive for only a few bucks when I saw other, popular, stores have them for close to $100. I've also heard a lot of good things about the site when it comes to returning items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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