Chrome OS Killed My USB Drive – How To Get It Back Up And Running
If you are playing around with Chromium OS and made your USB drive bootable, you may come across an issue. Here is a scenario – You just put Chromium OS on your bootable USB drive. You are now done with your experiment and now want to go about using your USB drive for other storage, but come across a problem. Your drive is not usable and shows an inaccurate file size of the disk. Here is how to solve that problem.
Luckily this problem is a quick fix, but can be annoying or may leave people stuck for a while. First, plug in your drive and right click on “my computer” and click “manage”. Under storage click “disk management”. You should see your USB drive on the list. Find your appropriate drive and click format.
You will now be able to use the drive like you could before.
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Hi im Tim and I love to do experiments and take adventures online. Professionally I am a Digital Media Producer out of Boston, MA and design, develop and produce interactive media.
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I don’t mean when you click the Stop button. I actually want to close a program when I just unplug the drive. The program is not running from the USB drive. More or less, I just need to be able to run a script once the drive disappears. Thanks in advance.
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This really works… Thanks bro for your help
I never thought that we can ever play with windows disk management for USB.
Really awesome answer
Tim
No problem, yeah its really cool. any removable media has disk management properties and can be really helpful in these instances. Glad you found it useful.
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Your article helped me a lot.I am very much grateful to you.Keep blogging.
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Hey
I did everything you said but now it is saying that i have 3.4 gigs of unallocated space and i cannot do annything with i have tried everything i know of :s
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i hop you can help me (again
Thx
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I don’t mean when you click the Stop button. I actually want to close a program when I just unplug the drive. The program is not running from the USB drive. More or less, I just need to be able to run a script once the drive disappears. Thanks in advance.
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Never heard of this thing. But can be true, and killed your USB. Thx for sharing the info , i will not use this !!
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When it comes to USB, i always remove it safelly!
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I got myself a new nikon coolpix slr 230 but i wanna charge it through usb port.I cant understand when its fully charged a green light keeps flashing but i dont know if it is indicating charge.I dont have a manual please help.
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If that’s true and a browser can kill your USB, then we have a real problem. !i will skip using it.
herki959
use HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml
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First i installed it on my 4 GB USB, and i had 949 MB left. I formated it, and i lost 3 Gigs of space. I used this tool, and problem was solved!
STJ
I had exactly the same problem and I found the solution using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool.
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Thanks that worked-flubberbug….
kalyan
thanks man. USB is working by formating with this tool.
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Yes, it’s really very interesting. Thank you now I’ll know.
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You can use Linux like Ubuntu and then format your pen-drive.It may be work.Otherwise you have to buy a new one.
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Do you always write such good blogs. I am interested in reading more of Chromium OS. I have bookmarked your site. Thanks in advance.
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I also encountered this problem. Thank you for your helpful advice.
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Do you generally publish this kind of great weblogs. I am keen on perusing much more of Chromium OS. I’ve bookmarked your website. Thank you in advance.
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I also encountered the same problem with Chrome OS. Thanks for sharing this post. It shed light on how to solve the problem.
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thanks for this, was having a nightmare with Chrome lately!
Tim
I always experience this snap problem on Chrome lately. I switch to using Mozilla Firefox.
Shahid
Thanx bro. I was disappointed but your help worked for me. I saved my Pen Drive.
Thanx
kc
I actually want to close a program when I just unplug the drive. The program is not running from the USB drive.Thanks for sharing this post. It shed light on how to solve the problem.
Kk
Can also use BootICE (http://www.pendriveapps.com/bootice-partition-flash-drive-edit-boot-sector/) to recover your pendrive back to the original state.
I just got out of this problem with this.