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Memory Stick Reformatting

K*B

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Posted March 26, 2012 at 4:50PM

Friends, what do I do with an AXIZ memory stick that refuses to be re-formatted? I can no longer access my stored data it contains; I tried reformatting it, losing all the stored data and starting afresh, but each time I start reformatting it a message pops up saying: "Reformat cannot be completed" or something like that. What do I do with it? Throw it away? Even if it were right-protected, there's no switch on it anywhere to flip over and see what happens. Please help. Thanks.

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted March 26, 2012 at 5:38PM

surprisingly enough this message often occurs when the drive is too full

something to try is wiping the disk with an eraser program (CCleaner has a wipe drive facility)

then format it on completion.

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K*B

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Posted March 26, 2012 at 8:03PM

Thanks, but it does not seem to have a facility for cleaning the flash drive (drive F in my laptop))? I can only see the facility for cleaning the hard drive (drive C).

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted March 26, 2012 at 9:09PM

you certainly don't want to wipe c:

try eraser here

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bremner

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Posted March 26, 2012 at 10:15PM

This formatting tool is very good on USB devices HP USB Storage Formatting

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