How to make the SanDisk Cruzer Blade 4GB disk back to normal

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Currently, my SanDisk Cruzer Blade 4GB have become a 64MB Firebird RAW flash drive (thumb drive). I don't know why it become like this but when I plug it into a PC, it suddenly transform itself to become a 64MB flash drive. (From 4 GB to 64 MB, that is a huge change!)

I read the following articles:

and notice that their solutions do not work at all.

Some of their solution is as follows:

  • Using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, which did not work for me as it could not format.

  • Using the h2testw to see if it is genuine, which did not work for me because it is a RAW partition.

  • Return to the vendor, which I doubt since the product only have 1 year warranty and it has expired.

I also notice that the flash drive is very fragile as after a few use, the flash drive have become something like the following: (The upper cover of the USB connector was broken or torn)

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So, wondering if someone have any good solution to fix it back so that at least I can retrieve my data on the fragile thumb drive.

Best Answer

Try running CHKDSK, open a command prompt and run

CHKDSK Pathname  e.g. CHKDSK E:\

This will look for errors and attempt to correct them.

Perhaps the volume is dirty: open a command prompt and run:

fsutil dirty query PathName

This will tell you the status of the disk, and it will run CHKDSK if it is dirty.

If nothing else, you will need to contact the place of purchase for a refund/replacement.

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