Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => The Knowledge => Ctrl-Alt-Del => Topic started by: Sergeant Pluck on 03 April, 2008, 02:47:56 pm
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My USB drive has a corrupt file on it. When I try to format, it says "you do not have sufficient rights to perform this operation".
It's a Cruzer micro drive but I have got rid of all the Cruzer stuff on it.
Any solutions?
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Have you tried doing it as an administrator?
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No, will try it on home PC later - will that work? I don't think I can be an administrator on my work PC.
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Nothing's ever certain with computers. If it's your work PC then the IT dept have probably disabled formatting to stop someone accidentally formatting their hard drive.
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I was wondering why that was, I could have sworn I have formatted media on this PC before.
Thanks.
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are you sure you've got rid of everything on it?
are there any hidden or system files on it?
Open up the drive in Windows Explorer.
Tools -> Folder Options
Click the View tab
Check: Show hidden files and folders
Uncheck: Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
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Yes, all hidden files are visible - there aren't any. The corruption has occurred long after I got rid of all the Cruzer-related stuff (I think there was a partition on the drive).
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How weird. Having tried several times to delete one folder on the drive (to be told it was unreadable), I checked the folder properties as per Greenbank above, then did a virus scan on it just for the hell of it (negative), and then tried to delete it... and it worked!
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Er, thanks Greenbank.
I see that when you use the "eject hardware" tool, the drive shows up as having two components, Cruzer Micro and a generic volume with appropriate drive letter. The Cruzer Micro does not show up in Explorer.