Can't save info on 2 gb SanDisk USB flash drive

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Data Banks, Nov 2, 2013.

  1. Data Banks

    Data Banks Corporal

    I've been using this USB flash drive for longer than I can remember now. It's only 2 gigabytes but it still has 585 MB of space on it. But now when I try save anything on it I receive this message, "Word cannot save or create this file. Make sure that the disk you want to save this file on is not full, write-protected or damaged."

    What can I do to restore it? I don't want to format it since I'll lose all the info in it. When I check out the formatting option on it though, I noticed it's using a FAT file system.

    How can I ever get this flash drive to save anything again?
     
    Data Banks, Nov 2, 2013
    #1
  2. plodr

    plodr Major Geek Super Extraordinaire

    Move the info off the stick onto the computer, then format it and move the info back on.
     
    plodr, Nov 2, 2013
    #2

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