John- Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I have a Corsair Survivor CMFUSBSRVR-4GB / 4GB USB 2.0 Ultra Rugged Water Resistant Flash Drive after using it for a while satisfactorily I put it to one side and forgot about in a draw at the side of my desk. Now when I have come to use it again it is only showing it has a capacity of 2G. I have tried a reformat of it and that didn’t make the missing 2G return then I tried in Linux dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd hoping that would solve it by wiping it clean but it is still showing up as a 2G only. This is the output of fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdd: 2015 MB, 2015489024 bytes 63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1007 cylinders, total 3936502 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b Can this be fixed somehow or do I need to ask for an RMA or better still can I take it back the the computer store I bought it from Scan Computers UK? the pendrive is about 3 to 4 years old but rarely used. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 1, 2013 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 1, 2013 Please try the utility from http://www.sdcard.org and call our Tech support and we can talk you through how to format and re-size it. If you dont see how to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John- Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 This isn't an SD card its a Corsair pendrive, the utility you seem to have pointed me to, although you didnt give it a name appears to be for SD cards. However I did try it, it looks like it has a resize option but when I enabled it the resize panel was still greyed out. Nevertheless I tried to reformat my pendrive with the SD Formatter 4.0 for SD/SDHC/SDXC. The formatter program came back with a error saying my SD card was write protected. Please advise on what to do next please? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John- Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 As an addition to the above the pendrive now seems to be unwritable since using the SDformatter 4.0 on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Request an RMA to replace the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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