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Post by Patcheen on Apr 3, 2018 20:57:28 GMT
Hi guys how are you all?
im having trouble with my flash drive it keeps saying "Unknown USB (Device "Device Descriptor Request Failed)
ive tried using drive on a laptop and still same problem
the thing is i got course work on it that i need to do for the morning and work related files.
im running W8.1 - Pc 10months old - 4gb ram (Os is a genuine copy came installed when bought)
all help given appreciated.
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Post by banjo on Apr 3, 2018 22:28:41 GMT
The Device Descriptor is a facility that all plug 'n' pray devices have. They announce what they are to the operating system at the moment of insertion and that allows the OS to install or load the appropriate driver. I think it's part of the firmware. Doesn't sound too good esoecially since you have such a short deadline. Assuming it's not visible in Explorer, can you see the drive using Disk Management? (used to be a context menu option on "My Computer" in XP and on my works W7 laptop.) I don't know about W8 I'm.afraid.. If you can see it in Disk Managment, try downloading "Recuva" and see what it can find. Fingers crossed for you Pat. I've had a couple of pen drives go south on me over the years.
e&oe...
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Post by Patcheen on Apr 4, 2018 0:25:15 GMT
no Recuva cant find it nor is it appearing in the disk management. disk management can be found with windows key and x and then select disk management. but thank you for trying
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Post by banjo on Apr 4, 2018 6:24:19 GMT
Last gasp then- does any of your work show up in "Recent Documents"?
e&oe...
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Post by Patcheen on Apr 4, 2018 18:55:56 GMT
some but not all....... like when i go into excel some of the files show up but cant be opened so it asks do i want to delete shortcut i have chosen no just incase it works one day.BTW I went to the course this morn but it was cancelled so it be great if i could get it fixed before next Wednesday.
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Post by banjo on Apr 5, 2018 7:37:34 GMT
Writing from a remote location, there's nothing I can do and from my odd past experiences with recalcitrant flash drives, it's normally goodnight Vienna. I had one pen drive that used to crash my computer until I discovered that if I held off from pushing it in the last 1/16" (or there abouts") it behaved nicely. I binned that POS. I'm sure that there are data recovery laboratories but they only come at extreme cost. The only real fix is the insurance of a back up, but if you're like me you never get around to it because life's too short (especially with a drive full of massive video files.)
e&oe...
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Post by egg on Apr 6, 2018 7:56:20 GMT
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