http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/reformat-error-usb-memory-sticks en-US Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:45:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha q http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/search.php http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/reformat-error-usb-memory-sticks#post-643 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:50:21 +0000 Ben 643@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <p>Sounds like you might have removed the drive without ejecting or stopping it first? Sadly it&#39;s an all too common problem.</p> <p>There are a bunch of different programs that will attempt to recover the data for you. The trouble is filtering the wheat from the spam/chaff. This post has a few good suggestions: <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/31869/How-to-recover-data-from-a-USB-key" rel="nofollow">http://ask.metafilter.com/31869/How-to-recover-data-from-a-USB-key</a> </p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/reformat-error-usb-memory-sticks#post-634 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:32:43 +0000 Anonymous 634@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name"></span></div><p>I bought a 4GB memory stick a couple of months ago and its was working great until yesterday. When I tried to open it, it told me it needed reformatting but reformatting would wipe all the data. I cannot open it and would really like to be able to access the files. I have been told that it is possible to get around this but the guy who said that can&#39;t remeber how. Any hints or ideas? </p>