[YLUG] USB stick weirdness

[Pete Fenelon]

On 12/03/2008, Phil Jordan <lists at philjordan.eu> wrote:
> Paul Wardman wrote:
>  > And now I buy a new stick, plug it in and it works fine.
>  >
>  > Then, just to see what happens, I plug the old one back in again, and it
>  > works absolutely fine.
>  >
>  > Computers make my head hurt!
>
>
> Sounds like a bad electrical contact to me.
>
>


Once *any* form of storage medium starts to give errors, make an
effort to get the data off it <b>then take a lump-hammer to it</b>.
Once something's 'gone manky' go and buy a new one - storage is so
dirt cheap that you owe it to yourself - unless you really believe
your time is free ;)

(I've been bitten by a corrupt memory stick once, last year; I spent a
couple of very long days trying to track down an error deep insice one
of a pair of embedded devices, only to discover that the problem was
corruption in the test content we were using on a memory stick).

pete
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