| Kingston’s USB flash drives, pen drives, memory | | | | net. |
| drives are great data storage and safe data transfer | | | | To format your Kingston flash drive, right click |
| gadgets. However, they are also prone to damage | | | | removable drive and select and format the drive. Then |
| and do not remain secure and stable forever. | | | | scan and fixes all errors. This way, all the bad sectors |
| Generally, the data in Kingston flash memory drives | | | | are fixed and your drive would work well now. |
| are lost or corrupted due to virus or physical damages. | | | | There are also a lot of softwares/freewares that are |
| Let's see a few precautions that can be taken to | | | | available on the Internet for fixing your corrupted Flash |
| avoid such situations. | | | | drive. In such cases, you need to first download the |
| An important precaution is not to remove the pen drive | | | | utility from the Internet, install it on your PC and then run |
| while the data is being transferred. Always remove | | | | the utility. |
| the pen drive after stopping it. Go to ‘Safely | | | | You will have to format the Kingston USB drive to |
| remove hardware’, stop the USB drive and when it | | | | FAT32 file format. |
| says it is safe to remove it, then remove it. | | | | In case, the USB drive is not recognized by the utility, |
| If your flash drive data is still getting corrupted, go to | | | | the bad news; the USB drive is dead. This is very |
| My Computer, Right click the Removable drive, Go to | | | | unlikely to have happened as a result of virus activity, |
| Properties Tools. Run Error Checking and Scan for | | | | and is more likely to be because of use, but either |
| errors and fix them. The files that are corrupt or in bad | | | | way, time to give up on it. |
| sectors already will not work but at least the new | | | | Though there are various ways to recover the lost or |
| transferred files should work. | | | | corrupted data and fix your flash drives, sometimes |
| If everything that you have tried fails, format your drive. | | | | they may be so corrupted that it will reach a point of |
| It will delete all the data from your USB drive and | | | | no return. In such cases, the best option is to check |
| make it fresh and hopefully remove all errors. The | | | | with a technician or warranty of the Kingston flash |
| software for formatting comes on the CD or available | | | | drive. They might get it repaired or replaced as per the |
| on support sites for your branded USB drive on the | | | | conditions. |