Hi admins, a few months ago, I have purchased the above mentioned flash drive from a computer hardware store. It works fine on both pc and mobile phone, until it suddenly could not accept anymore files. After few rounds of troubleshooting, I noticed that the flash drive stopped working after 16GB. I am still able to access the 16GB of files in the flash drive, but could not add any further.
Not picture files. Windows Iso files. Each iso is 4++GB. As mentioned earlier, it worked under 16GB, and i just happened to crossed the 16GB limit and discover the flaw. Now it ■■■■■ to know that we have paid for a overpriced 16GB flash drive from Sandisk.
It doesnt matter big files small files. As long as the total capacity hits the magic number 16GB, it fails.
Fail as in Windows copy completed without error, BUT files (after 16GB) not found.
Flash drive is just a temporary transfer media. We dont usually utilize much storage. Thats why after purchase, we only tested simple functionality check, eg. usb transfer and type c transfer.
It just happened that we copied a folder containing the Windows 10 ISO 20H1/20H2/21H1 (in both x86 and x64 versions) that we discover the malfunction.
The flash drive still works for daily operation, but we had paid for a 512GB model.
Just trying luck to see if anything could be done to restore the missing storage.
Wow!! Very strange. I assume you are looking at the drive using Windows’ File Manager. If you open a Command Prompt window and do a directory of the drive do the missing files show then?
dir E:
Maybe an attrib command too.
attrib -s -h E:\
Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they’re not there. The files’ copy don’t error out.
What’s that old saying about pictures and words.
