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Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose.

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I would suspect you need a specialist application to sort this, thing is,
when you plug in a disk drive, the system uses information from the first
sector to identify the drive and its size. You get a similar problem when
you zero out an entire hard disk, and there the solution is to manually
enter into the bios the hard drive.

What I suspect has happened in your case, is a wrap around when writing to
drive has overwritten the first sector.

Jamie

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
wrote:

> Le 26/05/2017 à 23:06, Martin McCormick a écrit :
>
>>         I have a 128 GB thumb drive which has been sitting in a
>> drawer for 2 or 3 years because it is not completely dead but had
>> a traumatic event.
>>
> (...)
>
> The drive is dead. The controller is still responding but the storage part
> is gone. Don't waste any more time with it.
>
>


-- 
Jamie

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Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-05-26 23:10 +0200
  Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-05-27 00:20 +0200
    storage devices with same marketing size having different number of  blocks David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-27 04:30 +0200
    Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-05-27 04:30 +0200
  Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-27 03:20 +0200
    Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-05-27 21:50 +0200
      Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-27 23:30 +0200
        Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-28 06:00 +0200
  Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-28 12:00 +0200
    Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. Jamie White <jatos.software@gmail.com> - 2017-05-28 16:10 +0200
      Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-28 16:50 +0200

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