Raithed Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Hello all that are reading this, I am brand new to these forums, One week ago, I was transferring 600MB into my 8GB flash drive, it stalled and basically stalled there. I even purchased a program called EASEUS (mods remove this if necessary, I read the rules but this isn't advertising for this product nor is it the competitor) to recover my files (my school work and pictures and everything else is there), it recovered some and I then performed a format. I basically used three different machines with different OS' to format this flash drive since it was such a pain. I then read about doing a simple format is not enough and that I should get programs that does the full format that no one can read the information inside (I do have some SSN date and whatnot, passport prints, etc). I tried and the flash drive just have I/O device errors and such like that. What's wrong with my flash drive is this: it takes 5~ minutes for ANY computer/laptop to read it. It's insanely hard to add new files to it as it freezes my explorer (on W7, XP, Vista). So my question is basically this, I am going to RMA this corsair (it is formatted standardly), what will Corsair do with it? Will they try to restore it or chuck it away? I don't want random people looking at my family photos and such or my information. P.S.: I even used this: http://forum.corsair.com/v2/showthread.php?t=85953 and get Out of Memory error. Does this mean my flash drive is corrupt? Apologies for long post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 They're not a data restoration company, so they won't restore it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithed Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 Oh okay, guess I'll just RMA this badboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 1, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 1, 2010 Please use the link on the left and request an RMA and we will be happy to replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithed Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 Yup. Planning on RMA'ing this weekend or early next week; does Corsair throw away these flash drives? I've read that a lot of their flash drives get RMA'd; if they throw it out - must be a waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 4, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 4, 2010 No returned products are scraped not thrown away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithed Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 No returned products are scraped not thrown away. Scraped meaning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 5, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 5, 2010 Meaning scrapped we may disassemble them and reuse parts to repair other drives or repair returned drives and then they are sold as refurbished. Any drive or parts of drives not usable are disposed of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.