A USB 2 Pen drive

**pradeepk78** · November 29th, 2004, 12:47 PM

I bought a USB Pen Drive 512 MB (company: LG) and all i did was take a backup on to USB. Latter when i tried to download the data onto my friends system which had windows 98 it asked for the driver.
After installing the driver it showed me a removable drive option in Windows Explorer and when i clicked on it to copy the data to my system it asked me to format the device as it is not yet formated. So I checked the properties and it showed the free and used space as 0, then i checked under the format option it showed only 255 MB for formating.
Now why is it asking me to format the device and also when i check the properties why does it show the storage capacity as 255 MB.
Any solutions please help.....

**bookmarkmns** · November 30th, 2004, 02:05 PM

When you put the USB back into the original machine did it still ask for the drive to be formatted?
If yes then grim, If OK I think you have to look at the second machine. Flash drives in my experience do have a tendency to corrupt.

**pradeepk78** · December 1st, 2004, 01:25 PM

Yes when I put the pen drive into the system from which i copied the data it does ask me the same question of formatting.
Please tell me i spent a lot on it now with just few uses of this pen drive its become a 256 MB from 512 MB.

**Pedro Paulo** · December 14th, 2004, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by pradeepk78

I bought a USB Pen Drive 512 MB (company: LG) and all i did was take a backup on to USB.
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Any solutions please help.....

I also bought a 256 Mb from LG and I had the same problem [asking to format] first time, but then it worked for some time in another machine, different from your case. But suddenly it asked me the password, and the password I used then began NOT to work anymore, and it has never worked again, or I get the "format" question, or I get password not right message. So, I could not find any technical support from LG. If you know anyway to contact LG I appreciate.