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by Rickajho
26 Mar 2014, 12:39
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: How do you tell if a flash drive is just dead?
Replies: 0
Views: 2395

How do you tell if a flash drive is just dead?

There seem to be a lot of posts here about all types of drives that have gone RAW and nothing can be detected. How do you know when it's just time to give it up because the drive is defective and no amount of diagnostics is going to get at anything? I had two flash drives crapped out when the power ...
by Rickajho
25 Mar 2014, 17:31
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Rebuild unknown/missing partition table for MO disk
Replies: 5
Views: 7168

Re: Rebuild unknown/missing partition table for MO disk

The problem you are having is that these are driver dependent formats. Early Panasonic MO DOS drivers did not use 1024 sector formatting. (As I recall they were something weird like 1536 SPT. The "hard" sectoring of the media and the SPT formatting are two very different things.) When Windows ...