USB went into RAW format?

zer0ness · 11-13-2008, 10:19 AM

I was at school and transferring a file on my USB and then dragged another one... and all of a sudden it closed and my USB wasn't recognized. I took it out and put it back in and apparently it wasn't formatted... then I did it again and it says it's in RAW format. I don't want to format it or use any windows xp tools because I've come to not trust them. Is there any way I can recover my files? They were really important and I had some school related work there... Thanks, I appreciate it!

PS - The USB is a 2GB Kingston Datatraveler 2.0

Thanks!

**stressfreesoul** · 11-13-2008, 10:44 AM

RAW is before format, so there isnt any data on it. Use a command line.

Hold start key and press R

Type cmd and press enter

Type: format [enter drive letter of USB stick]: /fs:fat

(should look something like this... format d: /fs:fat )

11-13-2008, 10:19 AM	#1 (permalink)
zer0ness Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 40 OS: XP	USB went into RAW format? I was at school and transferring a file on my USB and then dragged another one... and all of a sudden it closed and my USB wasn't recognized. I took it out and put it back in and apparently it wasn't formatted... then I did it again and it says it's in RAW format. I don't want to format it or use any windows xp tools because I've come to not trust them. Is there any way I can recover my files? They were really important and I had some school related work there... Thanks, I appreciate it! PS - The USB is a 2GB Kingston Datatraveler 2.0 Thanks!

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