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Trashed USB

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 7:03 pm
by castalla
No idea how it happened ... but got a trashed usb on the Joggler.

It's now write protected and I can't find any way to fiix it ..... grrr

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 8:06 pm
by Man in a van

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 8:12 pm
by pete
Been using SD Card Formatter here to fix USB / SD cards. Wierd cuz it works with USB sticks for me doing a low level format.

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:19 pm
by hawsey
Have you tried the HP Utilities tool ?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xu7zxb6ydgqxf ... k.exe?dl=0

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Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:53 pm
by pete
Yup the HP USB formatting tool works well on a working USB stick.

That said though it doesn't do a low level format on a USB stick. I have never been able to repair a USB stick until I tried the above mentioned format tool.

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 10:28 pm
by castalla
pete wrote:Been using SD Card Formatter here to fix USB / SD cards. Wierd cuz it works with USB sticks for me doing a low level format.

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
well .... 2 hours of my life gone ... it won't install as it thinks there's an older version installed. Can't find any way to uninstall the remnants of the older install. Grrrrrrrrrrr..... Chinese software!

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:51 am
by pete
Here sometimes use the trial of .revo uninstaller to remove programs. Do the deep registry cleaning with it. Then remove it.

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 5:16 am
by castalla
Thanks! Revo worked! But SDFormatter can't fix the usb.

Looks like I need to find some cheap usbs which work with the Joggler ....

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 8:00 am
by hawsey
@ Castalla these look good for the Joggler nice and small if you click on the options you can get from 16 Gig for £6.75 to 128 Gig for £18.99.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01 ... g=ho01f-21
It won't tell me if they deliver to Spain .

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Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 12:26 pm
by castalla
Thanks - got 2 from amazon es at cost of 17 GBP

By the way, I just got a Libratone Zipp - super sound & works well with upnpbridge.

Getting an unused Loewe Airspeaker next week - private buy from Germany - gotta be last speaker buy as it's becoming an obsession and expensive with the Brexit plunge in the Pound (about - 15% at the moment).

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:09 pm
by hawsey
Nice one .
Will have a look at that speaker :-)
Tell me about it , the Euro !!
We are flying out to Alicante this afternoon for Playa Flamenca , got considerably less this year than last , still the beer and wines cheap he heh ;-)

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Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 2:51 pm
by castalla
It's hot today - 35 C - cooler at 29 C tomorrow and next week mostly sunny

The retail prce of the Zipp is horrendous - definitely need to find a deal somewhere ....

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 11:32 pm
by hawsey
Here now :-) left a rainstorm in the UK , chilling with a glass of now ...
That speaker looks nice but out of my price range , how does it compare to a Jongo ?
Do report back about the performance of the Lexar USB sticks you just ordered ....

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Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 12:50 am
by castalla
As they say ... Benvinguts en Alacanti !
Pretty much tied up next week with medical affairs ... otherwise we could've met up for a beer

The Zipp has a much deeper and quality sound than the Jongos. - set at 360 degree output It's BT, wifi and Airplay - also there's a neat onboard control panel from where you can set up 5 radio favourites.

The android app is rubbish - probably worse than the Pure Connect app. *

If you ever find one discounted then it's a 5 star buy

* I've got Android running on a usb stick on my basic netbook. Easier to use on my tired eyes and brain than a smartphone ... the Zipp app wouldn't install as it's set for phones. I sideloaded the extracted apk which did run but rotated ! Installed a rotation app which forces it into landscape - graphics are squashed but the settings, etc. work fine. That ate up hours of fiddling earlier today, but it was too hot to do anything else.

I ordered 2 Lexars because I have 2 different Verbatims at 8 gb which are sufficiently different capacities that using them as main & backup became impossible. Hope the usb 3.0 doesn't cause issues with the Joggler ... got the whole system running on a very old unbranded 4 gb stick at the moment.

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:25 am
by hawsey
:-) I'm here for a fortnight a beer would have been good ... hope all is ok your end .
It looks a nice speaker the Zip , quite tall .
I've used USB 3 sticks and they have worked ok , fingers crossed for you .
The build you did for me is now on a 120gig SSD plugged in with an adapter cable and is working great .
The only USB sticks I have trashed were still in warranty and I got them replaced straight away luckily .

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Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 12:20 pm
by castalla
I haven't tried it on battery yet - claims of 8-10 hours.

Weather looks good for the next week - about 30 all week & sunny

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:00 pm
by castalla
Lexars arrived today - working fine!

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:41 pm
by hawsey
Cheers for confirmation of them working :-) yep having a great first week weather is great , some great times with my son and wife .
Tried to smuggle a Jongo over here but SWMBO spotted it and put the kibosh on it so I brought my LiNx Bluetooth instead , it sounds great for what it is but not as good as the Jongo :-(

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Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 1:07 am
by castalla
Glad you're all enjoying the Costa Blanca. I checked where Playa Flamenca is - quite a way from us - I'm no longer up to journeys of more than 20 km (pathetic as I used to drive all over Europe at the drop of a hat many years ago!).

I'm really impressed by the Libratone as a small portable speaker- excellent sound, good battery life, works as dlna, airplay and Libratone's own system. Such a shame the retail price is so high I got mine at a discounted price from Germany (but then it was really too expensive).

SWMBO was not so impressed! But she's still wedded to the old CD system - which is a nightmare here as the perpetual dust wrecks havoc with CD discs and players!

ps: weather forecast for next week is good - no great change in the offing!

Re: Trashed USB

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:02 pm
by hawsey
:-) thanks , yep my wife won't touch most gadgets and is a CD fan still ha ha ....


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