GvM Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Hello all. I have a problem with my corsair turboflash 1gb (windows vista accelerator). recenlty I was creating bootable usb containing picoxp. The picoxp creation kit created iso image which i decided to write with UltraIso on my usb-stick (yeah the latest ultraiso can write bootable images on usb-sticks and it was already done by me two times before without any problems), but this time when i written to the flash something went wrong and i got stick redetected in windows xp as SKYMEDI USB Drive USB Device. :confused: It appears as removable disk but I can't format it: XP complains that there is no disk in drive K: and when I try to open it - XP askes to insert disk into drive :eek: Dunno how's that happend but it looks like usb-stick reflased as some other usb drive/media :(: Is there any corsair utillity to reflash the stick? Or is there any driver (like some .inf files) which i could try to throw at XP so it will again think that it's a usb flash and all I need is to repartition it? what controller is used on this usb-stick? is there any app which can restore usb-stick's functionality? (note that data restore is not required) Now it blinks with a period of 3 seconds and i cant fdisk, parted and ddit even in linux. here's a photo of this device http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8407/usbturboflashtz3.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 2, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 2, 2009 http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62742 Have you tried this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GvM Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 well it was a little problematic for me to try this method because i do not have a floppy in my pc but i managed to get usb-fdd from my friend. so i've written w98 se boot floppy, booted it, ran fdisk, got 2nd fixed device, selected it, but oops no partition table on it. well i decided to create one then and got stuck at Verifying drive integrity 0% complete. and it looks like no read/write goes on usb-stick because it continues to blink with 3 second period (it could be some service signal). ps i also noticed a wierd thing when choosing another fixed drive: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4803/usbfdiskrn1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GvM Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 oh gawd why you make ppl think the stick is dead. some good guy from ixbt forum helped me to gather info about my stick: so he given me this info: Controller = SkyMedi SK6201 Memory Model = Samsung K9F4G08U0A Memory Type = SLC VID = 1516 PID = 8628 Vendor (by VID) = Skymedi Product (by PID) = Pen Drive Manufacturer = SKYMEDI Product = USB Drive Query Vendor ID = SKYMEDI Query Product ID = USB Drive Query Product Revision = 1.0 And suggested to search for manufacturer's apps to reflash my stick -> here it is. (SK6201_MP_TOOL_V1) Maybe it's a little outdated but with a little patience a managed to reformat my usb flash and get my 1gb. (hey you can rename it there (as named hardware) and even get a little more of those from reserved space, but thats dangerous) http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2042/usbnamedgb6.th.gif lulz, now it's TurboFlash-GvM :sunglasse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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