Alrighty, this one might be interesting to some people. I've dealt with USB drives (I'll just call them USBs for now on) before and I know my way around most issues. This one, I've got no clue. Recently I bought a nice, pricey USB 3.0. I through some documents on there at first (personal stuff) and then started installing linux to it so I could have an OS on the go. Mint installed fine, but then didn't work properly so I reinstalled it with lubuntu. Now here's where things went down hill. Computer freezes part way through installation. I cancel out and know that I will have to just reformat the drive and start again (I used the "linux universal usb creator" so I wouldn't have to burn the iso to a disk). Now you know the story behind the usb. Here's how it behaves:
1. If it's plugged in during boot, no other usb device will register (as in, the keyboard, mouse, etc won't turn on). So it has to be unplugged during boot, then plugged back in.
2. Right clicking on it when in windows causes explorer to crash. In fact, any action that would show its information causes explorer to crash (such as loading device manager while it's plugged in).
At this point I realized it was a corrupted file system. Only way I know how to fix that is running "chkdsk /f I:" (where I: is the drive). However, this just hangs I believe as nothing happens at all. I try just formatting over the drive using diskpart; however, diskpart hangs while turning on if the usb is still plugged in. Unplugging it lets it fully load, then plugging it back in register's the device. But any consequent actions just hangs as well. I have even tried:
(a) Loading up a lubuntu install disk I finally made and trying to overwrite/format from that (doesn't work)
(b) Loading up windows 7 repair disk, opening up console and running chkdsk and diskpart from there (same issues as above)
(c) Trying everything from my Windows 8 computer (no difference)
I'm pretty stumped. Don't really want to toss this device, but can't really figure it out (NOT sending it back for RMA because of the stuff I already put on it...).
So, I was wondering if anyone was up to the challenge? Oh! And I don't believe there's a driver for it. It's an ADATA UE700/64GB
1. If it's plugged in during boot, no other usb device will register (as in, the keyboard, mouse, etc won't turn on). So it has to be unplugged during boot, then plugged back in.
2. Right clicking on it when in windows causes explorer to crash. In fact, any action that would show its information causes explorer to crash (such as loading device manager while it's plugged in).
At this point I realized it was a corrupted file system. Only way I know how to fix that is running "chkdsk /f I:" (where I: is the drive). However, this just hangs I believe as nothing happens at all. I try just formatting over the drive using diskpart; however, diskpart hangs while turning on if the usb is still plugged in. Unplugging it lets it fully load, then plugging it back in register's the device. But any consequent actions just hangs as well. I have even tried:
(a) Loading up a lubuntu install disk I finally made and trying to overwrite/format from that (doesn't work)
(b) Loading up windows 7 repair disk, opening up console and running chkdsk and diskpart from there (same issues as above)
(c) Trying everything from my Windows 8 computer (no difference)
I'm pretty stumped. Don't really want to toss this device, but can't really figure it out (NOT sending it back for RMA because of the stuff I already put on it...).
So, I was wondering if anyone was up to the challenge? Oh! And I don't believe there's a driver for it. It's an ADATA UE700/64GB