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F900 corrupted flash memory

By lefty1102 · Mar 17, 2009in Problems/Troubleshooting💬 2 posts👁️ 729 views
Posted Mar 17, 2009 · 18:10 UTC#1

Yesterday my less than a month old F900 kept getting stuck in the "loading" mode and eventually rebooting about every 5 minutes. I troubleshot it to corrupt files in the iGO folder. Every one of the files in the iGO folder lost their names and attributes. I had to dismount the drive in the control panel, several attempts to fix the file tables were to no avail. Eventually, I had to do a full reformat on it (a quick format did not work) and replace all of the files. Good thing I backed them all up on a 2GB flash drive. Has this happened to anyone else?

... and before you flame me, no I did not search for this.

Posted Mar 18, 2009 · 01:22 UTC#2

I'm sure it's happened to a good few folks. Especially the ones who tried to do some of the mods without double checking what they changed or tried without making backups first. I copied the entire flash drive on mine within 24 hours of installing it.

 

I put mine up on an online backup / filesharing site and have offered to make it available to folks who need it. I've received a good two or three dozen requests from folks that have had some kind of issue.