Faulty Memory Stick Help!!!

Regeneration

I purchased a 16gb Dane Elec Memory stick about a month ago as I need a bit more space to carry things around with me. Everything was fine with it until this evening when I put it in the PC and not only have all my files gone but I seem to have got a lot of strange characters for filenames etc.
Is there any chance of recovering my files or have I been sold a duff/fake memory stick ???

Thanks

See pic below for what appears on the stick under windows explorer

S0litaire

Eeek!

looks like ether the stick is duff!
or it was corrupted by windows when you unplugged it.

i'm not sure if it will work but take a look for "GetDataBack for Fat" from runtime.org

hopefully it should be able to read the stick and tell you what can be recovered. (It's not cheap but the demo will tell you what it can recover)

aliEnRIK

Looks like a cheap and nasty stick. You DO get what you pay for with these.
I got one free of a magazine cover, and one free with a mag subscription. Neither have ever worked properly. I then bought 2 with samsung chips in them which have never let me down yet.

bluboy

Had something similar happen with a Lexar stick.
You could try PC inspector (freeware) -
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

I managed to recover some but not all files but the stick ended up in the bin.

Regeneration

S0litaire wrote: »

Eeek!

looks like ether the stick is duff!
or it was corrupted by windows when you unplugged it.

i'm not sure if it will work but take a look for "GetDataBack for Fat" from runtime.org

Cheers Mate, GetDataBack did the trick and recovered everything on the stick with no errors, guess it was corrupted by windows while unplugging it.

As for the reference to it being a cheap nasty stick, er not quite I paid more for it than the sandisk 16gb version because it had really good reviews everywhere I checked and had by far the fastest write speed of any 16gb stick available.

spakkker

I had a memory stick a while back which locked up -got it exchanged at local supplier who tested it - since then I always close down sticks before removing and haven't had any more probs.