alan2007 Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Got an 8G Flash Voyager about 5 months ago, and up until a week ago, it worked fairly well. I tried using it the other day, and Windows XP Pro shows the drive, but when I click on it, I was warned that The drive was not formatted. Do you want to format it now. I said no, and did a scandisk. This was a big mistake, as windows spent 2 hours after reboot churning away on the drive. After windows booted, I got the same result. So, I downloaded about 7 different recovery programs, and did manage to pull some data off, mostly corrupt or chk files (damn scandisk). I also noticed that the drive is only reporting its size as 3.968G, about half of what it is suppose to. Having given up on recovering my data, as I have some of it backed up elsewhere, I decided to reformat the drive and start from scratch. Windows wants to format the drive size as 3.87G. I cannot seem to get it to recognize the whole 8G. I am assuming that this is a hardware issue with the drive, and not one of those things where I have to pull some tricks to get it to function properly. Anyone having the same issue, or an idea on how to make this drive work? Thanks, Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 19, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 19, 2007 Please try the link in the stickies "Flash Drive Won't Format? Try This" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTech Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 I think you have it plugged in upside down! :zzzzzzzz: Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Author Share Posted September 20, 2007 Ram Guy, I tried the fdisk procedure, many times. I had to reboot 3 times to get it to see the whole 8G (7.935G). Once I got it to partition the whole drive to 7.935G, I put it on my XP machine to format it. It errored during format, and then it only reported half its size like before. I tried fdisk a dozen more times, but never could get it to see anything more that 3.967G. I followed the procedure you had linked too, but am still not able to make this drive work. Any more suggestions, or should I request an RMA number? Thanks, Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 20, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 20, 2007 Let's get it replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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