Bob123 Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 So check this out. I attached a pic so I'm not crazy. But I have a 16GB thumb drive. It's a POS that I pretty much had given up on. Recently I was going through my jar of pooped out thumb drives and I found it. I inserted it, formatted it, and attempted to give it a new mission in live. I through a bunch of video files on it and also used it to move some work stuff around today. So later today I had it plugged into my laptop, closed the laptop and walked away. I came back to the laptop and saw the drive flashing away. I opened my laptop and found my files all jacked up. The attached image shows what the files look like. It was about a dozen or so video files. Windows explorer states I have 756MB used and 14.2GB of 16GB free. However again from the attached pic there are at least four files that are almost 4GB in size! Has anyone ever seen this before? Look at the file extensions. It's crazy. There's nothing wrong with my laptop and no hacking or crypto/ransom going on. It's just a straight up messed up drive. Guess it's going back in the jar. Pretty damn cool though! Some how my work files survived earlier today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aethernaut Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 On 7/27/2020 at 11:43 PM, Bob123 said: Has anyone ever seen this before? Yes. On a drive with a corrupted file system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuyaya Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) Yeah, those are corrupted files. You also can't delete them (by just right click > delete) . Reformat the USB drive and you should be good. You don't have to bin it. Edited July 30, 2020 by kuyaya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob123 Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 Thanks guys. I don't know though...it was already binned. I'm thinking smashing it might be my next order of business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irukandji Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 I would have tried the sd card formatter https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob123 Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share Posted August 2, 2020 Naw I'm not going to smash it. I reformatted it as NTFS for now. Still probably won't trust it. I'll give the sdcard formatter a go. The Bus Pirate v3 looks interesting. Bit pricey but cool. Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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