How to make my SanDisk Cruzer Blade 4GB disk back to normal?
- by Jack
Currently, my SanDisk Cruzer Blade 4GB have become a 64MB Firebird RAW flash drive (thumb drive). I don't know why it become like this but when I plug it into a PC, it suddenly transform itself to become a 64MB flash drive. (From 4 GB to 64 MB, that is a huge change!)
I read the following articles:
http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/All-SanDisk-USB-Flash-Drives/Cruzer-Blade-will-not-format/td-p/214932
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1691847
http://forum.hddguru.com/sandiskfirebird-64mb-t23539.html
and notice that their solutions does not work at all.
Some of their solution is as follows:
Using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=1970), which did not work for me as it could not format.
Using the h2testw to see if it is genuine, which did not work for me because it is a RAW partition.
Return to the vendor, which I doubt since the product only have 1 year warranty and it has expired.
I also notice that the flash drive is very fragile as after a few use, the flash drive have become something like the following: (The upper cover of the USB connector was broken or torn)
So, wondering if someone have any good solution to fix it back so that at least I can retrieve my data on the fragile thumb drive.
