USB Help!!!

macman

Flash drives are great for file transfer, but should never be relied on for backup. Too fragile and too easily lost. Hope you can get your data back.

fenlander_uk

Is this a cheapo high-capacity (64GB) drive that you bought recently? If so, be aware that there are still a lot of fakes about that falsely report high capacity when they are really much smaller. Once you exceed the real capacity of the drive, they break. Even Amazon sell these things (see reviews here).

epninety

What did you use to put files onto the drive in the first place?

If it was a NAS, or a smart TV or similar, it might have a linux or a custom filesystem, that can't be read in Windows.

Welshchick28

I used my laptop to put things on it and havent used it anywhere else! Ive tried it in 3 of my usb ports, my sister and my dads laptop and ive also tried it on a computer in work today! But did have a different message coming up in work. It said it was corrupted and unreadable. Ive only used it once to put things on as my laptop was playing up and thought i would use it till i got a external hard drive. I got it from Amazon but i bought 2 (from the same company) one for personal and the other for work stuff and the other one is working fine.

cookie365

Could be a fake - a 1Gb pretending to be a 32Gb for example.

What seller on Amazon?

No doubt the others will follow suit soon, even if they're working for the time being.