Flash Drive Fixing Tips 

Having USB flash drives or pen drives is very common, these days the capacity to store good amount of data in a secure manner has made these drives popular among consumers, these days. However, it is also true that a flash drive cannot be safe and secure forever. 

Jerks and other types of damages cannot bring any significant hazard to flash memory. However, it is also true that these USB pen drives can also get corrupt.There are many people who tend to suffer from various corrupt pen drives even after purchase them from a reputed brand. Here are some tips to fix & format your USB flash drives: 

Tip one: Precaution first 

You need to carry out an important precaution prior to getting started. You must not remove the pen drive while the data is being transferred. Make doubly sure that you always remove the pen drive after stopping it. Now, go to ‘safely remove hardware’ & then the USB derive as soon as it says that it. Thereafter remove it. 

Tip two: Always check: 

Make sure that you check via opening all your important files prior to an important presentation, it won’t work there also. 

Tip three: Transfer 

In case, your file does not work, try transferring another copy of the file with a different name. This trick works sometimes. 

Tip four: Transfer 2 copies 

When you delete the file & then transfer the same file again giving same size & name, it may get written to the same area & may not work at all. However, a different name & size will get written to a different area & will definitely work. Hence, it is recommended to transfer 2 copies of your file. 

Tip five: Drivers CD 

In case, you want the presentation to function well on older PCS such as windows 98, you need to take along driers CD to let the computer identify your plug & then play USB drive. You need to keep this CD handy. It is also recommended to keep a copy of windows 98 driver. 

Tip six: check & scan  

In case, you see your flash drive data getting corrupted, just go to my computer & then right click the removable drive. Now, go to properties> tools and run errors checking & scan for error. Any files that are already corrupt may not work. However, the latest transferred files will definitely work. 

Tip seven: Format 

In case, everything fails, the last option is to format your drive. Here, you need to right click removable drive & then select & format the drive. Now, it is time to scan & fix all types of errors. This will fix up all the bad sectors & your drive will function as new. 

In case, none of the above mentioned works for you, just get hold of the warranty & fix it from customer support.