Files not getting deleted on Pen drive!!!

arjun123 · February 22, 2011, 8:44pm

Tried this?

hellgate · February 23, 2011, 9:59am

Goto the properties of the flash drive and then to the security tab. Check if any of the entries have Write → Deny

hot_zubs · February 23, 2011, 5:51pm

yuppieeeeeeee :jumpy::jumpy::jumpy:

its done, finally its working

heartily thanks to arjun123
formatted the drive with JetFlash Online Recovery and again erased the drive with Active@ KillDisk

Thanks a lot everyone for your precious replies

vivacious_tg · February 23, 2011, 6:13pm

^^Happy to hear that…

Finally a solution which worked for you.

hot_zubs · February 24, 2011, 4:07pm

^^^
all thnks to you buddy, it wouldn’t had been possible without your help…

CA50 · February 24, 2011, 4:09pm

Happy to hear that, maybe you were desperate to solve this issue as its a gift from someone special

hot_zubs · February 25, 2011, 7:38pm

^^^
thnx bro
yeah i was just too eager to get it back to work

Spacescreamer · February 25, 2011, 7:46pm

So no generic soln to this problem ?

i been trying my kingston flash drive to get back to normal but isnt helping.

ayanavish · February 26, 2011, 4:40am

good to hear!

hot_zubs · February 26, 2011, 9:14am

yeah still no generic solution, but if you keep trying different stuff on it you’ll surely get it right one day, so keep trying

thnks buddy…

blr_p · February 26, 2011, 12:41pm

What brand of flashdrive is it ?

hot_zubs · February 26, 2011, 6:30pm

^^^
its not a branded one dude it was custom made and its a very stylish key chain with my name on it, gifted by someone special

blr_p · February 26, 2011, 7:10pm

Yeah, but all that means is – its just a rebadge of something else.

When you pop the drive in does the drive’s disk label in file explorer identify any brand ?

Like when i pop my corsair or kingston drives in, i can see the name attached to the drive letter is what i mean.

Otherwise does anyone know of a tool that can identify what make a flashdrive is ?

Why am i asking all this. You notice how after trying a ton of tools nothing worked until you came to one which did. Well, there’s a reason that one worked and the others did not. Your drive most likely is a transcend and transcend drives do things in a non-standard way which is bad.

When problems like this arise and generic tools do not work, the first thing to do is identify which brand the drive is and then use that vendor’s tools to fix the problem.

Hope this demystifies things

hot_zubs · February 27, 2011, 9:49am

before when i had the problem it didn’t show any disk label or anything which tells which brand it is, but after formatting the drive with JetFlash Online Recovery tool it shows as transcend…

you can use Active@ KillDisk software, it shows the complete info about the Pendrive’s Make, version, Serial number and everything…

blr_p · February 27, 2011, 1:17pm

And does this tool also confirm that your pendrive is a transcend ?

CA50 · February 27, 2011, 2:03pm

i too have a kingston 4gb pen drive but windows doesn’t recognize it, any idea

hot_zubs · February 28, 2011, 2:40pm

it doesn’t confirm it, it just shows the brand name as JetFlash Transcend 4GB…

blr_p · February 28, 2011, 3:21pm

Yeah, when you used that tool it updated the drive with that info.

As i googled around for this it can get quite technical as there are lots of fake pen drves around.

Hope you trust whomever made that custom drive and they used a branded usb and not some fake.

ketansrihas · June 2, 2012, 6:06pm

This din’t work for me.
Make: Sandisk cruzer edge 4GB

flash23 · June 2, 2012, 6:11pm

@ketansrihas try HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool