I just bought a new Lexar 128GB thumb drive. My system was using it at first and allowing me to transfer data to it. All of a sudden while using it, it stopped working. I am using Ubuntu 22.04. Is there any way of correcting this? Without replacing? I have tried on other systems as well to achieve this to include Windows versions 8-11 and Ubuntu 20.04.
Asked
Active
Viewed 426 times
0
-
Replace the drive? – Pilot6 Oct 17 '22 at 11:26
-
how is the thumb drive formatted ? ext3, fat32, vfat for example. Did your system ever go to sleep while copying a lot of files ? – mondotofu Oct 19 '22 at 03:25
-
@mondotofu it is fat32, computer had not fallen asleep while copying files, it just as it was copying approx. 32G data onto a 128G drive stopped recognizing the device. – Joshua Flynn Feb 05 '23 at 19:44
-
@Pilot6 I would like to be able to at least retrieve the data that I had put on it. Are their any forensic tools that could help recognize it at least long enough for me to retrieve the data from it – Joshua Flynn Feb 05 '23 at 19:45
-
Plug the drive into a computer running Windows and run `chkdsk Z:" where Z is the USB drive. – user68186 Feb 05 '23 at 19:59
-
@user68186 That would requie the computer to be recognizing the device. is there a way of putting a variable there to have it look for additional drives? – Joshua Flynn Feb 05 '23 at 20:23
-
You can analyze the problem according to this link and if you are lucky, find a solution. -- There are problems if no computer can see the USB drive as a 'mass storage device', but if you are lucky there is 'only confusion'. – sudodus Feb 05 '23 at 20:34
-
There are as many as 1/3 of USB drives on the market today that are counterfeit. And some are certified for a given capacity, but scammers will paste their own labels advertising twice the capacity and sell them at a bargain price to move them. So beware. – mondotofu Feb 07 '23 at 00:47