USB drive, not a hard drive, only has 64MB, well 62. Well I have a newer one, 6GB, I only got that in July 2016 for the Kalilinux project to switch on the web camera software on a Windows XP system, but never worked.

Hmm, it means I have to use that as a double back up, since the smaller one is knackered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4p3i5-53nw

In this video is the USB that is corrupted. Has a LED.

I tried another format. So still the same. Bare in mind, my oldest drive I have access to is from 2002 and 2003, of course they hard drives, not a USB drive disk. But sure it was used frequently.

I suggest making a Live Puppy Linux CD or USB, booting to it ang grabbing the files needed onto another USBdevice or another parition on the USB device being used to boot Puppy. You could even burn the files to CD/DVD if optical crive works, with a burning program called Pburn.

If none of suggestions work to recover files, next time use Clonezilla.

15+ years for a hdd? Never had one last that long.

The storage disk mainly had duplicate files, so not much was lost. I have two other backups. The disk is obviously not a hard drive, considering it is 64mb, but the point in the slackware was to somehow try and repair it?

Formatting didn't change much, there is still 11mb of data on there, but not displayed, according to the screen I've loaded in the above post.

First I'd run GParted, unmount the USB drive if it mounted, and then select "Check" and then "Apply". Watch any error messages and report back what happened or start reading up on file system checking tools.

EDIT/NOTE: Since your screenname here is "kalilinuxlivecd: and this is a Linux message board, I assumed you knew something about Linux and even software in general. I never said you could boot Live Slackware and it would just automatically fix it for you. I said it had all the tools by default.

Someone else mentioned Puppy LInux and it is a decent, lightweight distro but it won't auto-repair either. If you're not motivated to learn how to maintain your system and it's hardware, maybe consider an Apple or just stick with Windows, but if you really want to gain deep understanding of how to own your system, you will need to do some serious reading.

Thanks for the response.

I registered here at the time because I simply wanted to get info on linux, and all that, I never posted much here, and no I don't use linux. I have a copy of linux lite may be with windows 7 on one disk. Hard drive that is, because windows 7 isn't supported, but since the primary drive in the computer i am using has windows 7 and I have used it for more than four and a half years, I stick with this one.

So with this problem with the USB storage disk, I assumed slackware was an os just to boot into and somehow use a tool that it has to just sort it out, sort of like formatting a disk. Auto repair as you stated is sort of what I need. I am not even that familiar with windows in general. But sure it is the main system used by everybody.

My only real IT tasks as maintaining a website in publisher, lost in space film info. I am not employed in IT in any capacity, so I don't tinker with hardware or software.

Well you might find some help in Win 7 Administrative Tools, specifically the Computer management > Drive manager section. There are also some fairly decent free tools for managing drives, partitions and file systems. However considering the age and size of that USB drive and especially since you apparently have a backup, I'd really just move on and be glad for what service you got. 64MB is next to nothing these days. IIRC I recently bought a USB thumbdrive of 128GB capacity for $38 USD. It's big and it's fast!

Where exactly in windows 7 are those tools you've mentioned?

I did try this, and this is the result, but no change to the disk.

Which tools? Administrative?

Correct.

The USB once inserted, the dialog box will load, Do you want to format? Hmm. I have accessed administrative tools, so computer management.:confused:

I guess there isn't much else available there to get the file system structured. I last loaded a backup file in the first week of this month, and then it was just over a week ago, I plugged it in, only to have the above dialog box load to format. I often did remove it, without the stop function, but on the other hand, I did remove it safely. I don't know, either a bit of carelessness caused this malfunction or simply the write and read, got to a point where it was simply used too much. Which it has been week in and week out for small files.

I don't know what happened, but it has been working, I've backed some files up, but just small files, and it isn't used much now. It works, but sort of corrupted.

The format option has been loading up again today, I did a format NTFS, and ex NTFS, and the old FAT one, with that one, it gives 61mb use, could it be that it can function fine with that file system structure, and should be okay for small duplicate files.

As others have posted why are you wanting to save this flash drive? It is obviously failing and its really time for it to be retired.

I think my smallest drive that still works is 512 MB dating back to 2005 or so but I do not use it amymore.

Manfacture's list the size of the drive as MB which base 10 versus MiB which is binary. 64MB ~ 61 MiB.

It is 62, but yes it is 64 on the disk.

Well I just thought I'd try it again, I only use it for small files since it packed up. Could it be that formatting it to FAT 32 caused it go corrupt? Or not by actually disconnecting it properly with no files transferring it led to this problem? And even if none of the above. It seemed to format properly as FAT and currently has two files on it, so why?