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So here is the situation. I find myself technological knowledgeable about many things ( I love to code, whether it's websites, C#, C++ or so on). However:
My 2 toddlers (my wife actually) bought me a "Generic" 128 GB USB Storage Device (Usb Flash Drive) for Father's Day. I thought awesome at first..... WRONG! Nothing but problems with it. 3-4mb/s MAX transfer speed.
I can bear with it.
BUT!
When I went to reformat my computer I transferred my save files from my games over to the stick and then the USB Stick managed to become corrupted. Not just a simple format would work either. It's screwed.
I tried to use (Manually changed usb drive letter troubleshooting it to X) chmod X: /X /F /R
with administrator rights, I did this after a long session to make it work with no errors (had to delete the log) and I finally recovered the files, however when I go to use it (transfer to or from) it transfers a couple kb to the stick or from it and then freezes, It says (Windows 7):
Name:
From: Folder (X:\File\Location)
To: Folder C:\Users\Username\Desktop)
Items Remaining: 0 (0 bytes)
Speed: 0 bytes/second
It does this forever... and ever... and ever... It transfered 3 files atleast, and then stopped.
This is a new USB Stick bought from a "High" reputation company on eBay.
Is the USB Stick screwed?
Throw it at H2testw. It's a tool designed to detect fake flash drives. Fake flash drives fake the capacity displayed to the user, which typically results in data loss. There's dozens of blogs listing known bad sellers, detection methods and some partial salvage methods.
– Bob – 2013-06-29T20:51:57.873Nope I used h2testw but I couldn't click anything else as soon as I chose the "target" X: – Jesse J. – 2013-06-29T21:08:27.920
Question, have you tried transferring the data with a live linux distro. – user88311 – 2013-06-29T21:16:35.367
Sounds like a fake – warsong – 2013-06-29T21:55:14.107
I don't have Linux :/ – Jesse J. – 2013-06-30T13:52:30.380
possible duplicate of USB drive unusable and reporting 0 bytes capacity
– Mokubai – 2013-06-30T22:54:38.170Get a live distro like Ubuntu, you don't have to install it to use it. – gronostaj – 2013-07-01T10:37:17.973