nitz Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 Kinda a long story, so I guess I'll start at the beginning. The mother board on my machine I use at work has been acting funky for a while, what with the usb ports having intermittent errors, and the intagrated network card dying whenever a usb device is connected to a certain port, such like that. I've been using my flash voyager [1 gb, for what it's worth] for a while now, to take files to/from work, and such, commonly using it in that machine. Last time I plugged it into that machine, it said my drive wasn't formatted, and that I'd need to format it before I could use it. No big deal, I back up my data pretty regularly, so it woudn't be any sweat off my back. I tried to format, and it just gave me an error, about the drive not being able to be accessed. I assumed this was the fault of the operating system, as I'm beta testing Windows Vista, so I assumed that, and went about my buisness. I'd format it when I got home. Or so I thought. That was about two weeks ago. I haven't had a chance to sit down with it until just now. Plugged in, picked up and added the drivers [which is weird, as it should aready be added.]. Headed to My computer, and for what it's worth, I double clicked it. No go, must be formatted before use. So I tried to format. If i did it through the 'right click, format' option, I was given: "The disk is write protected." So I tried it in the disk managment mmc snapin, and it just locked up the snapin, and now when I try to reopen it, it just says "connecting to local disk service." Restarting my machine, or killing the service and restarting it, I can get back into it. So now I'm thinking I'll try the tool that came with my drive. I recieve this: "Format Disk Fail!". Now I'm worried. I start checking out this site looking for things to try, in which I found the "Ezrecovery" tool. I screenshotted it, because it made me laugh: http://hosted.thegroupofthey.com/dividebyzero.png [Dividing by zero, it's a bit of an internet joke, you divide by zero, you rip apart space and time, blah blah. Yeah I'm easily amused.] So yeah. I'm in a bit of a pickle. Any ideas or suggestions? +nitz
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 22, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted September 22, 2006 What Operating system are you getting that error on? And are you an Administrator on that system?
nitz Posted September 22, 2006 Author Posted September 22, 2006 What Operating system are you getting that error on? And are you an Administrator on that system? Yes sir, this is windows XP Professional [Plus Media Center], and I'm logged in as an administrator. I've gotten this and similar errors on a vast varity of other boxes, ranging from windows 2000 to Vista.
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 22, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted September 22, 2006 Let's get it replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace them or it.
nitz Posted September 23, 2006 Author Posted September 23, 2006 Let's get it replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace them or it. Alrighty, I filled it out, using my original post number, I assumed is the one it was asking for. Thanks for the quick responses!
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 25, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted September 25, 2006 Yes, you should get a reply by Monday afternoon Pacific Time!
nitz Posted October 10, 2006 Author Posted October 10, 2006 It's now the 10th of October, and I've still recieved no reply. I'm just curious as if there is something wrong or something. Let me know if I should do something else.
nitz Posted October 10, 2006 Author Posted October 10, 2006 Ah, I followed the directions in your signature link. Hopefully this will get this resolved. :]
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted October 11, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted October 11, 2006 Sorry about that, you can call them at 888-222-4346 or 510-657-8747 as well!
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