Hi,
I have bought a new USB stick:
ScanDisk, Cruzer Micro Skin,USB 2.0 Flash Drive USB 8GB.
I am using an Acer computer with Vista and the latest updates of Vista.
I put the above USB stick into the computer. I copied a music file onto the USB stick. Then I played the music file from the USB stick on my computer ( from drive F .
Then only to test, if it does work because later I might need it, I formatted the USB stick with Windows Vista.
From then on the USB stick does not work any more.
The only things the USB stick does, is:
The USB stick does not show on Windows Vista, also not after a computer reset.
Only EACH TIME time when I do switch off the computer and then do start the computer again after one minute, the USB stick does show on the Windows Explorer in drive F:
The computer says that first the USB stick must be formatted, then asks for formatting the USB stick, but Windows says it cannot cannot finish the formatting and the USB stick is no longer shown in the Windows Explorer, though the light of the USB stick is on and flashes.
Windows Vista says the driver is OK, and to put the USB stick out and in again and when it does now work then, the USB stick can no longer be used because it is defective.
I also wanted to use HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, but the computer says I do not have the administrative rights though it is my computer only.
I also clicked on “Optimize for performance”, but it does not change things.
I have also bought a second USB stick of the same kind:
ScanDisk, Cruzer Micro Skin,USB 2.0 Flash Drive USB 8GB.
And it does work OK, but I have not formatted it and only copied and played the same music file of a 400 MB directory.
Does formatting the USB stick destroy the USB stick?
Many greetings,
Volker.