thumb drive broken

[Raxul]

my thumb drive's been acting strange lately, i can't copy much data, because it will always fail, so i tried to format it from exfat to ntfs and it doesn't work because window recognize it as raw drive so it's unusable unless i reformat it to exfat

also some folder also been spawning infinitely and i can't delete some file no matter what.

sorry for bad english it's so hard to explain my situation, i hope someone understands and able to help

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Raxul said:

i can't copy much data, because it will always fail

First of, I don't know much about this kind of stuff. But I do remember having a 2 gb micro SD card in a very cheap USB card reader. When I would try to copy larger files, it would also "fail". Also got really hot... Maybe it's partly an heat issue?

[DiamondShark286]

sounds like some sort of bad firmware for the flash drive or something or windows is reading it wrong. 

Is the flash drive new?

[SCHISCHKA]

USB flash doesn't last forever looks like yours is gone if it can't hold a filetable correctly

[SCHISCHKA]

Also you can only format a flash drive so many times. I have destroyed many by burning iso to them

[Raxul]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

First of, I don't know much about this kind of stuff. But I do remember having a 2 gb micro SD card in a very cheap USB card reader. When I would try to copy larger files, it would also "fail". Also got really hot... Maybe it's partly an heat issue?

i don't think so, my drive isn't hot, and this place i live is so cold. i think it's the format of the drive that caused the issue

Just now, Tb428 said:

sounds like some sort of bad firmware for the flash drive or something or windows is reading it wrong. 

Is the flash drive new?

not really, been using it for a while

[Raxul]

ahh never mind i used this to format my drive to ntfs, now it's working like a charm. i wanna ask something else while i'm here, does anyone know what caused this?