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Why is my Flash drive doing this?

I have a 16gb flash-drive that i downloaded music on to get it off my hard drive. I d/l it and let it sit and when i take the flash-drive out and replace it, 1/2 of the music is gone. Its like there are corrupted areas on the flash-drive. I have done this at least 5 times on this one drive and I have another 16gb that did the exact same thing

Any and all suggestion are welcome

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  • 1 decade ago
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    let it finish saving it and dont just pull it out. you need to look at the bottom of the computer screen and their should be an arrow. click on it and their should be a icon with a picture of a flash drive with a green arrow pointing to the left. right click on it and click on safely remove hardware. this should fix the problem.

    Source(s): A+ tech
  • 1 decade ago

    before removing ur flash drive u must click a green colour button on urcomputer so that it can be safely removed and then u can pull ur drive if u dont have that option [of safely removing] then u must either download or go to ur computer shop.

  • 1 decade ago

    Are you sure it's a real 16Gb flash drive not a faked one that looks like 16Gb but is really much smaller?

    Try putting a huge file onto it... sort of 10Gb+...

  • 1 decade ago

    did you use safely remove hardware?

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