I have a Sandisk Cruzer Micro 1GB..................And its been acting wierd latly. The file system just got screwed for some reson. Okey, Says I. No problem. I just backed it up yesterday. So I format it. Then I try to copy and paste the backup files........... when the light whent off and it sayed that therer was a delayed write erroer. I tried agin. Then it said that there was some I/O erroer. HELP
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The only help is to buy a drive which is NOT FROM SANDISK.
I had a Sandisk Cruzer Mini 256Mb. It did the same!
I also had a Sandisk SD Card 256MB - Some weird problems until i tested with HDTune. I found out it has problems after 183MB, so if i try to write after the 183 limit i got strange behaviour in windows like handing for 5 minutes and then displaying a writing error.
So my conclusion: HANDS OFF SANDISK!
Drives do die. Sometimes it happens when it's unmounted imporperly. Sometimes it overheats (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060707-7209.html). Sometimes it's just defective. I used USB drives to flash BIOS's and run other routines at work. My main drive was a Sandisk 256MB drive and it was probably inserted/removed 1000+ times before it died. It might have been user error that caused it to die :(. We used generics, Apacer and Kingston. The Sandisk and Kingston lasted the longest. They are both good with their warranties. 3-5 years. I think Sandisk crossshipped a new drive. A company that stands behind their product is a good company. Did you RMA your drives?
I had an old 512 Sandisk Cruzer that I used for 2+years.
It still works fine even after my wife ran it through the washing machine 4 times and it spent 500 days in my pocket. I was also running a copy of Thunderbird on it for at least 16 months straight. That means well over 100,000 write cycles to one file alone.
However I also recently purchased a Cruzer titanium 2Gig that died in a week. They did replace it but it took 6 weeks to recieve the new unit.
The replacment unit has been running fine though.
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contact Sandisk, athey should replace if it is still under warraatney (sp)
good luck
Hiren's boot Disk 8.3, is not full of warez or any other "contagious files."
Not taking sides here but flash drives do have a limited lifetime. Maybe yours just wore out.
Yeah. How long have you had yours?
Vintage!
Just A few months
Shouldn't have died, then. Flash drives typically last anywhere from 1.5 to 2 years, even under heavy use (e.g. running Portable Firefox all the time). Though I totally annihilated a JumpDrive Sport about a year ago by accidentally pulling it without using Safe Removal; Sandisk drives may be the same.
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I know it is bad but I have to sometimes have to remove my thumbdrive unsafely. I close all apps then wait a minute or two and even after that it still some times says that there are apps running and I have to pull it out. I even go into the task manager and that doesn't always help. I HATE WINDOWS!! but I'm to cheap to buy a mac and to lazy to convert to linux