Repairing A Flash Drive

can anyone tell me if it is possible to repair a virus infected flashdrive. i have lost two flashdrives to trojans & worms.both infected from a business centre. the latest loss being today. because, i've tried to format and scan with antivirus but yet it does not work.
the problem actually is : i formatted it, scanned with AVG 7.1 August 2006 update, Avast v4.0 proffesional 2006 and also mcaffee 2006. they all claimed not 2 detect a vitus excpt avg7. that detected a worm and repaired it.

But after this, if i store application programs (setup) in the flash drive it sees it but if i store a file e.g.a Msword doc, it only displays zeroes and at this same time increases the number of pages automatically. Also my files stilll maintain there sizes but contain no content.

plzzzzzzzzzz can i repair a flashdrive in another way and still recover my files

hope this may b of some help,i've not/never tried it myself

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Fixing USB flash pen drives
FAQ: Fixing USB flash pen drives
Title: Fixing USB flash pen drives
Author: smiler2505
Views: 3202
Category: Hardware
Last Modified: 23/02/2006 03:10:32

Contents:

 First of all, I'm assuming that the drive is appearing, be it in the small icon at the bottom, 'Windows has found new hardware', My Computer, or Device manager, under USB controller(s) (usually as a USB Mass Storage Device). If there's no sign of it appearing, check it's not the USB port that is at fault. Plug it in to a different one! Ideally, this port should be on a seperate usb controller (check: control panel -> device manager -> USB controller(s) - should have more than one entry under USB contoller). If it's still not working, you could try another computer. After this, with no registring of the drive, bin it.

So you know it's working, but it won't work properly? If you aren't running Windows 2000 or later, you will need the device driver for your drive. Try Googling PRODUCT NAME OF DEVICE driver. If you don't know the product name, have a look where you bought it from. If you can't find a device driver however, you can't use your pen unless you upgrade your OS.

It's appearing in the OS, and installs the drivers, but you can't access it? Run ScanDisk, and see if any errors come up. It will try and fix any, but if there is a lot of damage to the disk, you are going to have to get what data you can, and proceed; if the following steps don't work, your pen is b0rked I'm afraid.

Try a format from My Computer. If it doesn't get very far, the volume is damaged. However, if it does work, you will probably want your data back. I find PC Inspector File Recovery good, it gives all the data it can, including file names etc, and is my favourite price - free! There are of course alternatives, again, Google is your friend, Try 'freeware data recovery utilities'.

The volume doesn't work? In adminstritave tools, there is something called computer management. Click this, and go to Disk Management. The drive you want should be there, and by right clicking, you should be able to write a new partition. Do this, and you should have a working drive again! All you need to do is restore data (see previos paragraph), and you are a-ok! Any problems? Drop me a PM on PCFF, or email me at smiler2505@fsmail.net