I had the same problem with my external usb hard drive.. I used chkdsk /f and it worked! try safely removing it, inserting and running chkdsk with /f parameter.
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Manohar Bhattarai < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Aditya <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> I have an 8gb kingston data traveler pendrive. It was working fine >> until yesterday when I plugged it into Kubuntu. Kubuntu was not able >> to read it and during startup and displayed a series of error >> messages- >> >> [32.673990] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64 error -110 >> [some floating pt no] usb 1-1 device descriptor read/8 error -110 >> hub 1-0 : 1-0 : unable to enumerate usb device on port 1 >> >> Windows is able to recognize the drive but displays it as raw(size 0, >> free space 0). >> I think the file system on my drive might be corrupted. I cannot run >> the fsck or fdisk utilities as the pendrive won't show up in linux. >> Chkdsk in windows also fails. Is there a way to fix the drive without >> formatting it ? >> I know that the USB ports are working fine because I tested them with >> another USB drive. >> Please Help. >> >> Regards >> Aditya >> >> -- >> l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm >> > > > Is the pendrive genuine? I think it may be corrupt. I had a pendrive 8gb > but only max 250 mb could be stored. And sometimes showed same errors. > > -- > Regards, > Manohar Bhattarai (मनोहर भट्टराई) > Blogs: > http://manoharbhattarai.wordpress.com/ > http://manoharbhattarai.posterous.com/ > http://manoharbhattarai.blogspot.com/ > Microblogs: > Twitter :- http://twitter.com/manoharmailme > Identi.ca :- http://identi.ca/manoharbhattarai > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- Pushpak Pujari IIIrd yr. Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi +919718265312 -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
