Can not access my usb scandisk stick. The System see's it but it wants to reformat it.

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The file system has become corrupt and unreadable, or at least a section of it. If you can't reformat it then it's likely dying or dead. At least you should be able to recover some of your data however...

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Hi, do you have a floppy disk, cd or usb stick inserted in your computer? Try removing such items and reboot as it may be trying to read these before the hard drive.
Check the boot order, when you first turn on your computer, access the BIOS menu (may need to push Delete, or one of the function keys eg F2, F8, F12 etc).
Check the boot order to ensure the correct hard drive it listed. Try moving the hard drive to the first option and reboot.
If removing any cd, usb stick etc doesn't help, try removing the hard drive and see if you can access it from another computer. If you can't access it, your operating system nay be corrupt and you may need to reformat.

Reformat the flash drive then do a scandisk of this so that windows can check for any errors and correct them if possible. You can pretty much expect to loose all files in this drive once you reformat the flash drive. you can reformat the flash drive by right clicking the drive > choose FORMAT > then make sure to use just the FAT32 file system for now then format. Good Luck.

You flash drive is infected with virus or your computer have virus that cannot detect the flash drive data. Try to connect it with other computer. If it view the files from there, you need either reformat your computer or reformat your usb but all the data will be lost.

access the drive through administration manager and delete any and all partitions. Then create a partition for the full 4gig drive, reformat and that should give you back your full 4 gig.. Just make sure you backup anything that is on the drives BEFORE you delete the partitions.. administration manager is located in the windows control panel. MAKE SURE you are accessing your usb drive when you delete the partitions as once you delete them you can never get them, or any info on the drive back. If you accidently delete your hard drive partition, you will have to start again with your operating system from scratch.. SO BE CAREFUL...

There could errors in the drive. You should either run a scandisk on it or format it altogether. Either should get it back up and running is it is a genuine device.

1. To check for errors/scandisk right click on the icon of the memory stick, select properties. Under the properties menu look for Error-checking and select check now. The check disk menu pops up. See that Automatically fix file system error box is checked. Then click on start.

2. If you decide to format the memory stick just right click on its icon and select format. But see that you move you vital files from it first else you will loose them.

Same as last solution I posted. Card is pootched.

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Hi Sandysue, As I understand your problem, 1. The error could be caused by: memory, video, hardrive or drivers; 2. Windows by asking you to run CHKDSK /F has detected a possible problem with your harddrive; 3. It is possible that the reason you cannot go to DOS mode is because your harddrive is formatted in NTFS and not FAT332. There are a couple of ways on how to go about this but all would require that you have access to second PC: 1. Run a third party software (BartPE) that you will have to boot from your CD Drive or USB and run a disk checking utility; 2. Remove your hardrive and install it as a secondary master in the 2nd PC and run chkdsk or scandisk; 3. Remove your hardrive and install it in an external HD enclosure and connect using USB to the 2nd PC and run chkdsk or scandisk; 4. Remove your hardrive and install it either USB or as secondary master to the 2nd PC. Copy all your important files to the 2nd PC, and repartition/reformat. Reinstall to the eMachine and reinstall Windows. There is a possibility that even if you were able to run CHKDSK or Scandisk eventually your best bet would still be #4. If you have gained access to the inside of your eMachine PC, it would also be a good idea to remove/reinsert any cards and the memory stick(s). A little housekeeping would also be nice. I hope that this be of some help and pls post again how things turn up or if you need further information. Goodluck and kind regards.