4GB U3 Titanium Memory Stick totally gone

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When I stick my Sandisk U3 USB memory stick into my computer, I get two new drives that come up. One says it’s a CD drive, and the other will show a disk drive, but when I click on it, it says there is no media in the drive. I can’t format it, I can’t get anything on it to work. My son put his school project on it just yesterday, and when he went to school, it just didn’t work anymore. I did notice last night, when I put the file on the memory stick, it was showing a CD drive at that time, which I thought was strange, but it worked, so I didn’t mess with it.

This is nuts. I have hated that U3 thing since it came out. I have never had it work, EVER, and at the time I bought this drive, just about all the Sandisk drives came with it on them, and I always figured that a fix would come out, so I bought it anyway. Now, I wouldn’t buy a U3 drive to save my life.

Anyway, is there ANYTHING I can do to reformat my memory stick to work or is it basically toast now? I don’t know what to do but I remember I paid close to $30 when I bought this thing because it was the titanium metal version that I thought would last a while, but I was wrong I guess. Can anybody here help me or do I just not buy Sandisk stuff anymore because I can’t rely on it?

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Hi,

You can remove the U3 by referring to this link: http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2550 . Please make sure that all the data is backed up because this step would format the flash drive.

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If your son took the stick to school it’s very possible something at the school infected it and your pc’s security is preventing access to it.

And if you buy a shirt that’s too small do you keep it and hope it will get bigger or do you complain about the store and avoid it for future purchases??