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by brifd1

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Today, one of my jump drives stopped being recognized...it shows up as a removable disk, but when I click on it, I'm prompted whether I want to format it or not. Meanwhile, it's blue light throbs on and off.

Suggestions???

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by rob miners

WinXP by Default turns off USB Root Hubs to Conserve Power causing some devices not to
resume correctly after Windows resumes from sleep, hibernation or computer inactivity.

In the Device Manager, Universal Serial Bus Controllers, USB Root Hub, Power Management.
Uncheck the Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power. Uncheck all boxes on all root hubs.

Resart the PC.

by oh smeg

Have been corrupted effectively destroying any Partitions that are on this drive.

If there is Important Data on this unit you can use a Data Recovery Program to Either Rebuild the Partition Information or Recover any Lost Data depending on the Data Recovery Software that is used.

If there is nothing important on the drive just chose the Format Option and format the drive.

Col

by brifd1

I've been using Safe Remove, and I tried a USB recovery program yesterday, but it found nothing. I'm trying the other suggestion in this thread as well as seeing if System Restore might work on this.
Thanks for your help!

by oh smeg

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Col

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