I can not emphasize enough to always unmount the drive before taking it out. I am not sure of exactly why its really that nesessary on a plug in play device like usb but from personal experience if you dont unmount your drive goes bad. but one solution you might want to try is to insert while the computer is on and reboot the machine and see if its detected when it restarts. that saved me a few times when I thought my cruzer 256 was dead.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of FORC5
Sent: Mon 4/11/2005 10:03 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] USB Flash Drive
FWIW I have been sticking with Lexar and after several failures of other brands.
Have also started a regiment to eject the drive b4 removal to hope prevent
failure.
fp
At 08:20 PM 4/11/2005, Rob Finger HWG Poked the stick with:
Hello all,
My Sandisk Cruzer Mini died on me this weekend. Light will not come on
and will not mount. So I am on the hunt.
I was looking at the Sandisk Titanium but some people have said it does
not fit right in recessed USB ports. My Dell D800 has what I think is recessed
usb ports. Also they said the slide mechanism is not that great.
Sandisk Micro was also on the list which is probably the front runner
right now.
I would like to get the opinion of the collective. I also seem to
remember some that mount a 1.44 partition on the drive as an A drive which
could be very useful.
Anyone ever seen any like this.
I had a 256 so a 512 would be better. I have also thought about a
iPod Shuffle but sometimes I work on Win9x machines and I don't know if this
would work.
TIA,
Rob
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