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OssieMale Posts 2 Registration date Saturday May 2, 2015 Status Member Last seen May 4, 2015 - May 2, 2015 at 01:13 AM
 Marco - May 10, 2015 at 07:11 PM
Hi my name is Marco,
My PC - WIN XP detects the USB L: drive and tells me it is ready for use but when i try and open the drive it comes up with an 'Insert Disk' message.
Disk Manager does not show the drive but it allows me to change it's letter (bottom right of the screen)
The USB drive doesn't show up in Recuva either
Help!!

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Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,165
May 2, 2015 at 04:48 AM
Hello

No doubt that your pen drive has been physically damaged and pen drives cannot be repaired.

Sorry
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OssieMale Posts 2 Registration date Saturday May 2, 2015 Status Member Last seen May 4, 2015
May 4, 2015 at 02:25 AM
The pen drive is in as new order- it started playing up only after i used it on a Desktop PC at a clients office- maybe did not eject the drive prior to removing it :-(

Currently after having deleted the appearance of it in Device manager and restarting my laptop the pen drive again shows up as ' New device installed and ready to use' but when i try to access the files a message comes up asking me to "insert a disk into F: drive"

In Disk Manager F: drive shows up as 'no media'

Any ideas?
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Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,165
May 4, 2015 at 04:42 AM
"maybe did not eject the drive prior to removing it" that will damage a pen drive.
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Marco
May 10, 2015 at 07:11 PM
Looks like this is the case- I will discard the pen drive as unrepairable

Thanks for your help
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