Hardware Talk :: usb flash drive? yeah mine's kinda dead.

i have a sandisk micro 2GB (slow as hell btw) and it sorta went dead about three weeks ago. when i stick it in my pc, if i'm running windows xp it'll hang the moment i try to open the drive. soon as a i remove the drive windows works again. when running dsl, when i try to mount it, the os hangs. if i remove the drive it's still hung.
i'm pretty sure my pc freezes when the os is trying to read the partition. can't even format the drive since every tool i use first reads a partition before it modifies/deletes it.
so, my question is: is there a tool out there i can use which will eliminate all partitions on my ufd without reading them first? or perhaps, is there another way to fix my problem?
thanks for your help!

I had a flash drive die in the same manner. Walmart replaced mine. I have two now, both a 128MB and 256MB Lexars that work perfectly. I use the small one for data and the larger one for DSL 3.0 & data. If I'm not mistaken, Sandisk & Lexar both have at least a 2 year warranty. At 2GB it is probably quite new. I would take the receipt and get a replacement.

Jeff

make the last chance with these

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....endrive

if you use the force -f geometry of original geometry you rewritte alll the pendrive sectors , heads and cilinders...

runs first dsl without pendrive then swich the pendrive and open emlfm and go to /mnt and see to sd devices and mount the pendrive ...i have to swich off the pendrive several times...

in xterminal make sfdisk in -f the original geometry...

with these procedure i recover to the life two usb pen drivers..

original here.