O2 Joggler Forum

Dramatic title, but actually nothing too serious.

My flash is dead, but not the internal flash

One of the first USB stick's I bought for use with my Jogglers has died. It has been in constant use for a couple of years though. Looks like an identical replacement will put me back £8. Certainly cheaper than a new Joggler, had I been using the internal flash and that had gone.

it looks as though it might be under warranty as it's listed as a "limited lifetime warranty". Maybe I should try returning it

Try flashing this image to it https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1107587/bootsector.img - it has brought a few flash drives back from the dead for me!

it's dead in a way that it cant be probed sucessfully by the os so there is no device to write to. but thanks anyway

As you've all ways stated, better to use an external flash then the internal ! I wonder how long the internal would have lasted if used in the same way as your USB stick ? Two years of continual use just goes to show how resilient flash can be !

I used my first big flash drive just like a hard drive as I didn't appreciate the limitations of it at the time and it eventually failed on me. When I plugged it in the LED would not light and it was not recognised by Win XP. So I went to a Russian website (see below) and tried a solution from there. It recovered the drive - there are some dodgy sectors on it, and it now has a different name - but better than having a dead stick ! In fact I still regularly use it and it has been fine for 5 years since being reincarnated.

You might like to have a look at these :

39 - How to repair your USB Flash drive - RMPrepUSB
http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/repa ... lash-drive

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http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... e%3Diflash

How to Repair a USB Flash Drive: 17 steps (with pictures)
http://www.wikihow.com/Repair-a-USB-Flash-Drive