you say, make sure the cruzer is plugged in and then run the removal tool. however, sandisk's site says that you not only need to have it plugged in but that you need to have the u3 launchpad running. this is an important consideration, since many of us can't get the launchpad itself to run. I copied the removal tool (that came with my 4gb cruzer in the zip file) to my local hard drive and ran it from there. It acted like it was running fine, then 2 minutes later it said, critical error, please restart your PC and run it again. OK? so I did this but after restart, the Cruzer doesn't even show up in MyComputer and when I run the removal tools, they all say, "please install a u3 device." great. So I go to disk management and can see the "healthy" 3.84gb drive sitting there. But there is no file system on it and no drive letter. great. I assign a random unused drive letter and it takes it. (though still doesn't show up in MyComputer) And then I right-click and try to format it FAT32. No dice. Says it's not enabled, must restart PC first. what? I go to properties for that drive and it says Enabled and should be working. great. I'm at a loss. This $30 gizmo has already cost me more than that in wasted time. I love computers.
|