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January 6, 2008 at 12:08 PM
dkulmacz

Files corrupted on USB thumb drive???

by dkulmacz . Updated 18 years, 6 months ago

I recently purchased two 4GB USB thumb drives to use for MP3 storage. They are both formatted as FAT32 (the only option I seem to have).

When I try to copy MP3 files onto the drives, all works well until I move about 900MB of data. After that, any new files I transfer are corrupt . . . I can’t play them, or delete them, and if I remove the drive and replace it I see odd files and directories on the drive. This happens with both drives, and I’ve reformatted both many times, scanned for errors, etc.

My HD is formatted as a NTFS drive. I’ve tried reformatting the USB drives as either FAT or NTFS using various utilities, but get errors when I try this.

This is driving me crazy . . . any suggestions???

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