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[nishantgandhi]

I have a Corsair 8 GB Flash Voyager that I bought last year. It is primarily used for storing music. I keep it permanently plugged in my car HU (Clarion DXZ 785 USB). Once in a 2-3 weeks, I take it out to load new music and replace old folders. Of course, I unplug it only when the system is shut down, to prevent any loss of data.

My entire music collection is stored on my laptop. This is the Master Backup.

Today I faced a strange problem. I transferred some new music folders to the flash drive but when I plugged it in the car, it threw an "Error 2" and no music could be played. I unplugged it and tried to view the contents in my laptop.

The basic view shows all folders intact. However, when I open any of the folders, the files appear to have strange letters/symbols, and not mp3s. Please see the attached screen shots for reference. Many folders have no mp3 files in them! Basically I sense that the flash disk is corrupt. But when I did a disk check, no errors or bad sectors were detected.

I will format it and see what happens. But is this something serious? Do I need to get the drive replaced?

[Striker10]

Yep its gone. Same thing happened with my PNY attache 1gb drive... get it replaced asap..

[Party Monger]

Format it and see, It could be just a File system corruption..

Format a few times, and copy and test the data for consistency..

[TECH HUNTER]

use low level format tool.
HP is also offering similar format tool.
try them.

[nucleuskore]

Now before you format, you can try repairing the filesystem if you want to recover the songs.

Start->Run->cmd

chkdsk F: /r /v

as I can see from the screenshots that your pendrive is F:

If you are going to format your drive, then
1. Format
2. Copy songs
3. Defragment

[nishantgandhi]

Striker10 said:

Yep its gone. Same thing happened with my PNY attache 1gb drive... get it replaced asap..

Party Monger said:

Format it and see, It could be just a File system corruption..

Format a few times, and copy and test the data for consistency..

TECH HUNTER said:

use low level format tool.
HP is also offering similar format tool.
try them.

Thanks for the comments guys. I formatted it using the in-built Windows XP formatting tool. Now it seems to work fine. I also checked the disk for errors/bad sectors and happily, none were reported.

nucleuskore said:

Now before you format, you can try repairing the filesystem if you want to recover the songs.

Start->Run->cmd

chkdsk F: /r /v

as I can see from the screenshots that your pendrive is F:

If you are going to format your drive, then
1. Format
2. Copy songs
3. Defragment

Hmm, so a defrag is recommended AFTER loading the songs? Shall try that today.