HundertzehnGustav
January 5th, 2009, 03:45
i have a 4 gigabyte memory stick, wich i cannot format.
the reason i wish to format is that i have had trouble with the thing last summer.
i used it to transfer files from the internet cafe to my home PC because i had no internet connection.
At one point i have had trouble opening the stick - appearently a virus had snuck in and was running itself everytime i plugged it in to a USB port.
:kilroy:??
huge mess, with popup Windows all over the place, anti porno and prostitution messages in slovakian and such things...
a few days i had everything cleared by Norton antivirus... things be running fine ever since.
i was also able to access the stick and get hold of the files that i wanted to get off it.
I was able to delete said files from the stick.
Still, every time i plug that said stick in, Vista asks me if i want to repair the stick... wich leads to nothing.
I then tried to format the thing, via the Vista menues and via the cmd.exe prompt.
None works.
Is that the Virus files still being on the stick? any way to save that stick, or should i trash it for safety reasons?
:help:?
:wave::ernae:
the reason i wish to format is that i have had trouble with the thing last summer.
i used it to transfer files from the internet cafe to my home PC because i had no internet connection.
At one point i have had trouble opening the stick - appearently a virus had snuck in and was running itself everytime i plugged it in to a USB port.
:kilroy:??
huge mess, with popup Windows all over the place, anti porno and prostitution messages in slovakian and such things...
a few days i had everything cleared by Norton antivirus... things be running fine ever since.
i was also able to access the stick and get hold of the files that i wanted to get off it.
I was able to delete said files from the stick.
Still, every time i plug that said stick in, Vista asks me if i want to repair the stick... wich leads to nothing.
I then tried to format the thing, via the Vista menues and via the cmd.exe prompt.
None works.
Is that the Virus files still being on the stick? any way to save that stick, or should i trash it for safety reasons?
:help:?
:wave::ernae: