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SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB USB Flash Drive
My SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB USB Flash Drive has been malfunctioning. I tried it on three different computers – Compaq Presario w/ XP Pro x86, a Thinkpad X61 w/ XP Pro x86, and a Custom Box w/ Vista Ult x64. The flash drive is acting up on the Compaq Presario computer. I was downloading something via torrent client and it prompted with an error saying the file location cannot be found. Other than that, the computer was just idle. The Compaq Presario computer is the only one where I can see the content from the flash drive but I am not sure if there is just some caching that’s happening. I cannot see any content when I use the flashdrive on the ThinkPad and Custom Box. When I plug the SanDisk Cruzer flash drive in any of the three machines, it is detected as a removable drive. However, the XPs tell me that a “Delayed Write Failed” and the Vista tells me that the disk should be checked. I think it is also important to note that the flash drive is not detected on Disk Management.

Kingston DataTraveler 16GB Flash Drive
I found an old Kingston DataTraveler 16GB Flash Drive that I have for a while now. I am not sure what I contains but it probably contains some files I am looking for that I don’t have on my PC. When I connected it to my computer, I saw that it doesn’t contain anything but it registers to only have 8MB of space instead of 16GB. I also tried checking partitions because maybe it has several and only the 8MB is free but to no avail, there is only one partition.