AKICOLJ - USB memory sticks

[gurthaew]

My 4Gb memory stick seems to be suffering from corrupted files. There's nothing important on there, so I tried to format it; that seemed to be succesful. When I tried copying more stuff too it, I got an error message saying there were corrupted files again.

Does anyone know of a downloadable disk checking utility I could give it a quick once-over with? I will replace it PDQ as it's the one I use to move work related stuff around, but I'm curious to know what it wrong with it.

Comments

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

It would be worth looking at the speed spec of Corsair GT memory keys, then comparing others with that spec. Most or all will be slower to write, but ones on offer are sometimes the very slow ones. Then there will be no such thing as making a quick backup.

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

I have bought a Scandisk Cruzer Blade 8Gb because it was on special offer at Currys. It's not one of my backup drives, it's just the general purpose one I carry around with me.