One of my flash drives suddenly died today. It all happened when XP
suddenly froze for some reason. after rebooting, the device was dead -
XPdetected it as a 0mb device (and attempted to format it as such -
which didn’t work).
After a little research I was able to revive the drive, and heres the procedure (pretty easy):
- Download and install the HP Drive Key Boot Utility.
- Open the desktop icon and select the correct flash drive under device.
- Select the file system you want to format to (FAT, FAT32, NTFS).
- Tick Quick Format.
- Click Start.
Note: Officially this software (HP Drive Key Boot Utility) is meant for HP
disks, but unofficially it seems to work fine at formatting most flash
media, even digital camera cards.
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