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Recovering a damaged PQI flash drive

:: Sunday, July 8th, 2007 @ 7:56:19 pm

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I love my PQI 4GB Cool Drive U339 Pro. It is very fast, inexpensive, and lives in a tiny, compact case. (Note that other PQI models may be much slower than the “Pro” versions). The only drawback is that it mounts as two drives when connected to a computer, one being a read-only partition with useless “USB Notebook Software.” I hate stuff like this.

Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, the drive started behaving strangely when connected to my computers, and it finally died on me a few days later. I contacted PQI support, who recommended that I download and run a Windows-based repair utility. The repair utility seems to have repaired the drive, and as a bonus, it also removed the second partition with the useless software. So if you own one of these Cool Drives, you might want to run the repair utility even if yours is in perfect working condition! (I take no responsibility in what happens, though — the decision to run the program is yours alone.)

UPDATE: Another cool thing I did was install Mac OS X on a partition of my flash drive and install Disk Warrior on it. So now, if my primary drive(s) fail while I’m on the road, I can boot OS X from flash and try to repair things.

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  • http://echeng.com echeng

    There is an updated utility from PQI (v1.0.1.8), so you might have to contact PQI directly to get it.

  • JB

    hey thx, i think it fixed my 2 GB PQI flash drive

  • http://nil Keith Smith

    Hi Eric,

    Thanks to you I have reformatted my pqi8Gb drive using the urescue utility. After many hours searching and trying many so-called utilities, I am now happy.

    With win xp I could only format it to 250Mb fat32. Cheers Keith

  • horace

    hi, hope u can help me, i have a u339 1gb piq memory usb, i tried to delete the files on it, but send me write protected,.. is there a way to remove this protection in order to manipulate the files??

    thanks in advance ! best regards . looking forward for some feedback !

  • mariz

    hi Mr. Eric,

    i downloaded your software but it doest work with my pqi flash drive, it appears an error. Is there any software that can repair my flash drive?

    Will appreciate it very much. Please..

    Many thanks,

    Mariz

  • Abraham Bruck

    When I try to install it; it says I need Administrator rights, and I am the Administrator; any ideas?

  • GetSirius

    My PQI i821 drive failed. Windows said it needed to be formatted. Was writing files to drive when it failed. Windows could not do the format. Found a utility on the PQI website that did a low level format and it made the drive usable again, all data lost.
    FAQ on this page:
    http://www.pqigroup.com/produc.....mp;cate1...
    First question had the utility called Dr.UFD

  • Mayorlim

    Many thanks to you sir Eric for the software, fixed several errors on my PQi 8GB USB Flash Drive…Cheers!

  • Jaser

    I have PQI Flash drive also and I can’t access it. It says “Please Insert disk”. Same thing when I tried to reformat it. And when I go to Device Management It says “No Media”. I hope you can help me. I just want to recover my files. but I can’t do it unless my computer detects my flash drive.

  • lawrence… of the nigthmare

    I LOVE IT…

  • Lawrence_143punk

    try to insert your flash drive to. other PC…

  • Cinco_arnold

    thanks bro.. you really help me a lot..

  • Kenneth_gmt

    I think it just repaired mine too! :) Thanks a lot. :)

  • E R K A N 1986

    fla? bellegimdeki dosyalar görünmüyor ama haf?zas? dolu gösteriyor dosyalar? nas?l kurtara bilirim

  • Roland

    Eric, thanks for sharing this one. I was mad about the second read only partition (my A500 tablet recognized only that partition). You page was the first that google hit. The repair utility helped, the partition is now removed. Thanks again!

  • Christian Eneroth

    F***ing thank you man!! This is great.

    I got a pqi usb card drive a couple of years ago and wanted to use it now when my normal usb drive is gone. I just can’t understand why those dumbfuck would add susch this notebook-whatever-it-is-thing. I could definitely pay a few quid more not to have that shit there from the start.

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