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regarding pendrive !

8 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/regarding-pendrive.117235/

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linkinboy95 Original post #1
May 31, 2009 at 12:20 AM
1 of my friend bought a datatravler 40gb kingston pendrive !! so aftr 2 -3 months hes havin a problm in it !! he can not format it !!! whn he selects format then it shows the format option window like this
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nd then whn i select the othr option it do not show so aftr clickin the start button my mouse shows the loadin sign nd it goes back to normal ! nd the option window do not even change aftr i click the start button he use this in windows xp but in vista it gets formatd for exfat but now for NTFS !!
rhitwick
rhitwick #2
May 31, 2009 at 12:39 AM
40GB pen drive?

Were u/he ever able to use the whole 40 GB or at least more that 20 GB?

Why don't u try to format it from command prompt?
it_waaznt_me
it_waaznt_me #3
May 31, 2009 at 2:02 AM
Try HP USB Disk Storage Format tool and see if it works. Win2k / XP cannot format a disk with Fat32 for more than 32 Gb you'll have to use a third party tool for that.
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vineeth_pulari #4
May 31, 2009 at 9:03 PM
I dont think they have 40gb models, but i know some people sell duplicate pen drives of 40gb , 60gb and 80gb on footpath,for 300 and 400rs which really wont work.

and yes there are 32gb and 64gb models which costs 3k+ and 5k+ approx.
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hemantpl #5
Jul 3, 2009 at 1:55 AM
vineeth_pulari said:
I dont think they have 40gb models, but i know some people sell duplicate pen drives of 40gb , 60gb and 80gb on footpath,for 300 and 400rs which really wont work.

and yes there are 32gb and 64gb models which costs 3k+ and 5k+ approx.
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you r right I was in pune and they were selling 32 gb sony pen drive for 700 buks without warrany, fake
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techline #6
Jul 3, 2009 at 5:42 AM
The 40 GB and 32 GB china models are fake. It's actually a 1GB or 500 MB pen drive. The volume it's showing is a virtual one.
ECE0105
ECE0105 #7
Jul 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM
The Filesystem of the Pen drive seems to be dirty... Take a mug full of water and immerse the pendrive in it (u can use Surf Excel) and then try it, it should work ..........
techking_dinesh
techking_dinesh #8
Jul 3, 2009 at 3:12 PM
lol pen drive seems too have come 2 cheaper now

I bought a transcend 4gb jet flash with d mini dvd which has pen drive features like locking and all for Rs. 3800/- for a 4gb one ( 2 yr back )

Digit june says 8gb kingston for Rs. 925/- :((((((((((((