Hi Brian,
Sorry for the late response - been a bit frantic of late.
I've had exactly this happen on one of my USB drives as well.
Absolutely no idea why, but removing it (using the correct "safely
remove hardware" function) and then re-inserting it brought it back fine
(with the usual "autoplay" function where it asks me what I want to do
with the files on the usb - I always choose cancel and then navigate to
the drive using Windows Explorer).
To be safe, best to back up. This experience certainly made it clear
for me. I only ever use USB drives as a transport medium - the
originals are always somewhere safe(r). Normally a HDD with an offsite
backup.
If anyone starts to tell me about corruption and the possibility of
losing all my data on both my HDD and the offsite backup drive I will
put my fingers in my ears and sing "la la la la la" until they go away.
I am too scared by that particular scenario to face it. Maybe one day I
will try to figure out how to safeguard against every scenario, but for
the moment life's too short ! We have a client at work who is forever
banging on about "single point of failure". Yes, we should strive to
eliminate as many of these as is practical. But there comes a point
where all you are doing is moving the SPF further up the chain - and
with each step the solution to the SPF gets exponentially more
expensive.
Anyway, I digress ...
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Swale [mailto:bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 December 2009 09:41
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] (OM) OT A-Data USB Flash drive
Hi all,
As a temporary solution to my digital image storage problems, I took
about
half my E-1 images from my hard drive and placed them on an A-Data USB
2.0 Flash drive E704 - 16 GB.
I possibly looked at them once using Windows Explorer after storage, to
make sure they were there.
Until a few nights ago when I looked at them also with FastStone Image
Viewer.
Now, Windows Explorer tells me that the drive is unformatted, and do I
want
to format it now? NOT. A friend's XP laptop tells me the same.
Actually, I told a lie. I bought two of these Flash Drives, and made
two
backup copies of about 36 x 72 images (give or take 100%). As far as I
know the 2nd backup drive is OK but I'm rather scared to open it.
Certainly
not with FastStone.
Any comment / similar experiences with FastStone will be listened to
seriously.
Thanks.
Brian Swale.
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