USB Flash drive help

[TheUncannyScrub]

My USB Flashdrive that has all my coursework on it cannot be opened.

 

I plug it in and it just comes up with Removable Storage G:

when i click to open it crashes windows explorer

similarly when i go to devices and printers and click on it, it also crashes that as well

 

Any help would be nice!

[NumLock21]

Try opening in command prompt. A corrupted file might be the cause of it.

[SamuelJE]

Or try downloading an alternative browsing software and open it that way, I have seem similar issues solved this way. 

http://alternativeto.net/software/windows-explorer/

[TheUncannyScrub]

1 minute ago, SamuelJE said:

Or try downloading an alternative browsing software and open it that way, I have seem similar issues solved this way. 

http://alternativeto.net/software/windows-explorer/

 

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Try opening in command prompt. A corrupted file might be the cause of it.

Will do!

[TheUncannyScrub]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Try opening in command prompt. A corrupted file might be the cause of it.

Tried it in CMD.. it just did nothing but blink!

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, TheUncannyScrub said:

Tried it in CMD.. it just did nothing but blink!

When you navigated to the drive letter of the drive, can you see the contents of the drive within command prompt?

[TheUncannyScrub]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

When you navigated to the drive letter of the drive, can you see the contents of the drive within command prompt?

no, it dosen't come up with an error, it just sits there and the status indicator just blinks

 

[NumLock21]

Just now, TheUncannyScrub said:

no, it dosen't come up with an error, it just sits there and the status indicator just blinks

 

Can you even navigate to your usb drive letter in command prompt?

[TheUncannyScrub]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Can you even navigate to your usb drive letter in command prompt?

again, it accepts it as a command but does nothing after that

[NumLock21]

3 minutes ago, TheUncannyScrub said:

again, it accepts it as a command but does nothing after that

From your USB drive letter in command prompt, see if you can copy the files out to your HDD

e.g. Flash drive is letter E

So from cmd

E:\>xcopy *.* C:\usbfiles /E and press Enter

Select D for directory

 

[TheUncannyScrub]

17 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

From your USB drive letter in command prompt, see if you can copy the files out to your HDD

e.g. Flash drive is letter E

So from cmd

E:\>xcopy *.* C:\usbfiles /E and press Enter

Select D for directory

 

It just continued to lfahs like it was doing something, I left it on for 2 hours and still nothing

[NumLock21]

4 minutes ago, TheUncannyScrub said:

It just continued to lfahs like it was doing something, I left it on for 2 hours and still nothing

Looks like a faulty drive.

See if using a Linux live disc can help you see your files and copy it out.

Now you can try running chkdsk, but that might make it unusable on whatever you have, when they're corrupted.

 

[TheUncannyScrub]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Looks like a faulty drive.

See if using a Linux live disc can help you see your files and copy it out.

Now you can try running chkdsk, but that might make it unusable on whatever you have, when they're corrupted.

 

Ah ok, No problem and thanks for the help!