Try that, if that doesn't work, I'd say there is a 90% chance your drive is hosed. Now if 98 didn't see the drive, there is an HP utility for formatting USB flash drives, do a search on these forums for HP and Sandisk and Format and it will probably come up. Recopy your data back, and plug it into an XP machine, its fixed. The drive should appear, try and open it and get all your data off, if the drive doesn't appear there may still be hope (details later).Ĥ. Find a computer with Windows98 (I think First Edition will work, but I used SE) and then download and install the driver for it (Windows98 requires a driver to read the drive).Ģb. Here is one way that I know fixed mine, and its fixed several others throughout this forum, but the continued posting the same problem and the lack of people posting this as a solution has made it apparent we need a sticky on it.ġ. Sometimes the drive just goes dead, but many times they can be fixed. It appears people continue to have problems with these drives.
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