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Old 09-12-18, 11:32 AM   #16
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Get this, I dropped a heavy book on my stick today and plugged it in and no message. Pulled it out and plugged it in a few more time and no message! Work that one out, stick works find and all is ok as i just tested it again now.

No idea why only that stick gave me a minor issue and no idea how dropping a book on it cleared it up.

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Old 09-13-18, 09:48 AM   #17
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Old 09-17-18, 12:37 AM   #18
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Get this, I dropped a heavy book on my stick today and plugged it in and no message. Pulled it out and plugged it in a few more time and no message! Work that one out, stick works find and all is ok as i just tested it again now.

No idea why only that stick gave me a minor issue and no idea how dropping a book on it cleared it up.

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As far as the potential it "fixed it" ideas:


1: The force of the book impacting the stick clamped/shocked things into position, and now there is a good internal connection. As a result, it works.


2: There was some dust internally causing a minor short, enough to give an error, but not enough to cause it to fail to Read/Write.
The shock dislodged the dust and now it is no longer shorting.

Other ideas:
Considering that an SSD is, last time I checked, non-magnetic... I'm not sure if this one would work on a USB drive.

More than once we had a 3.5" floppy disk drop straight on the edge, on the side with the metal slide that covered the disk opening (so the drive could read/write to the disk), and it wiped the disk clean.
(Odd, but it only happened on one batch of disk from one manufacturer.)
It was almost as if the impact "knocked" the data off the floppy disk.

If it was the latter, then maybe it "knocked" the error off the 'disk'.


Again, just all ideas based on previous experience.


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