I think you're in a state of denial. The indication is that the drive
has failed in some way. I find it difficult to believe it's the fault
of FastStone. FastStone (like other browsers) does write to a directory
even if you're only viewing it but all it does is create/update a
thumbs.db file in that directory. Going from application file write to
totally destroyed drive directory structure should be an impossible
thing without the complicity of a serious bug in the OS. That also
seems to me highly unlikely.
You need to open that second drive to assure yourself that it's good.
If you're leery of FastStone use Explorer or even use a minimalist
approach. Start a command line window and type DIR d: where "d" is the
drive letter of the flash drive. If the second drive is OK (meaning you
see a list of files from the DIR command) then you want to copy that
data somewhere to form a second backup until you figure out what's going
on with the first drive.
What you do about the first drive depends on whether you are able to
create a second backup from the second thumb drive. In any case I would
apply an image recovery program to the first drive just to see what's there.
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Swale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As a temporary solution to my digital image storage problems, I took about
> half my E-1 images from my hard drive and placed them on an A-Data USB
> 2.0 Flash drive E704 - 16 GB.
>
> I possibly looked at them once using Windows Explorer after storage, to
> make sure they were there.
>
> Until a few nights ago when I looked at them also with FastStone Image
> Viewer.
>
> Now, Windows Explorer tells me that the drive is unformatted, and do I want
> to format it now? NOT. A friend's XP laptop tells me the same.
>
> Actually, I told a lie. I bought two of these Flash Drives, and made two
> backup copies of about 36 x 72 images (give or take 100%). As far as I
> know the 2nd backup drive is OK but I'm rather scared to open it. Certainly
> not with FastStone.
>
> Any comment / similar experiences with FastStone will be listened to
> seriously.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brian Swale.
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