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I have a 8 GB thumb drive from toshiba and I used it to speed up my system by using the free memory as ram but then I plugged it out directly now the usb size is not readible and non formatable I triend everything turning of write protection and using software but It doesn't work can anyone help me ??

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I have a 8 GB thumb drive from toshiba and I used it to speed up my system by using the free memory as ram but then I plugged it out directly now the usb size is not readible and non formatable I triend everything turning of write protection and using software but It doesn't work can anyone help me ??

can you tell me how to use free memory as ram?please?

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I have a 8 GB thumb drive from toshiba and I used it to speed up my system by using the free memory as ram but then I plugged it out directly now the usb size is not readible and non formatable I triend everything turning of write protection and using software but It doesn't work can anyone help me ??

I believe that is called Intel's Speed Boost technology, I don't remember it ever really dealing that great of results.  If you unplugged it without ejecting, you probably totally corrupted the drive, short of a data recovery professional, I doubt you will get that drive back to anything useful.

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I believe that is called Intel's Speed Boost technology, I don't remember it ever really dealing that great of results.  If you unplugged it without ejecting, you probably totally corrupted the drive, short of a data recovery professional, I doubt you will get that drive back to anything useful.

Yes it is called Readyboost and thank's for the help

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I have a 8 GB thumb drive from toshiba and I used it to speed up my system by using the free memory as ram but then I plugged it out directly now the usb size is not readible and non formatable I triend everything turning of write protection and using software but It doesn't work can anyone help me ??

Checkdisk using command prompt then format..

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Again please

 

Do a checkdisk on the usb thumb drive will do..

In case you dont know the steps: http://www.pcrx.com/resource_center/how-do-check-my-disk-in-command-prompt.html

 

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