USB drive dead after stopping copying process on Snow Leopard Server

Posted by Anriëtte Combrink on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Anriëtte Combrink
Published on 2011-02-16T14:12:49Z Indexed on 2011/02/16 15:27 UTC
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Hi there

I was copying to a flash drive from our Snow Leopard server when I stopped the copying process half way through. The device then disappeared from the Desktop. So I unplugged it and plugged it right back in. The device just didn't show up.

I unplugged it and plugged it into a Windows XP machine as well as a Windows 7 machine. On both machines, I right clicked "My Computer" and selected "Manage…". On both PC's, the device was located under Removable Storage, but had no size and no drive letter. It shows up in "My Computer", but when I choose "Format…" from the right-click menu (context menu), it says the drive could not be formatted.

Can someone please advise me? The flash drives is about 5 mins old and should have no reason to be dead. I really can't loose this drive (I don't need the data on it, I just need it to work again), any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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