As shown here; I had a bootable copy of Win7 on the drive and when I tried to remove it the format completed then the drive just became inaccessible.. Windows only detects it once in every 5 plug ins and even then it says I need to format the drive, which won't complete. I've tried google which pretty much said create a new simple volume and format that but all option associated with creating volumes are greyed out.
By the way, what was your make of your USB flash drive. I had one I got that didn't last a month as well. It was a Kingston. I open it up, and OH MAN to chhhheeeaaaaaaaaaaaaap. The board looked like dollar shop PCB from toys. And they glued that things to the max. Glue everywhere. They even used 2 type of glue, and you can could see that the glue was so hot when they put it, that it soldered a component. When i opened it up, I small chip came out with the glue. And it was a fairly expensive USB 3.0 drive too.. I mean for a USB drive. I got a Corsair Voyager GT now USB 3.0, and I did open it up, to see (was really easy too), and man high quality all the way, even has thermal pad to help spread the heat of the chips. Not CPU high glass thermal pads, but at least it's something.
It was a Kingston DT Rubber USB 3 Drive. I'm noticing a connection... I think I'll buy a different brand next time and thank some higher powers that I hadn't transferred all my college coursework onto it yet. UPDATE: I peeled all the rubber off rather carefully and got a little curious so I plugged it in, the drive formatted o.o Update 2: I replugged and the same old story happened, god damn false hope -.-
Ha! That's exactly the one I had: My voyager GT: You can't see the thermal pad used as it's the sticky kind, and I don't want to break a perfectly working USB flash drive. But you can see no 60 tone of glue, like if USB flash drive is a top secret thing, and Kingston can't let anyone know how it works.
