Question I TB exFAT Flash drive corrupts all my files.

[Patriciah Kariuki]

Hello, I need help. My 1TB flash drive, with the exFat file system, corrupts all my files, times it will delete, some don't open.
I have tried changing the file system and it won't. What should I do?

 

[13thmonkey]

My gut feel is that it's a bad drive, i've seen some cheap drives that report a capacity, but when you try and use the whole of capacity behave strangely.

 

[Patriciah Kariuki]

if it's a fake one, it will be sad.

 

[SkyNetRising]

What model drive is it? How much did you pay for it?

 

[Patriciah Kariuki]

HP model. I bought a HP laptop then given the flash as a discount

 

[popatim]

You bought from HP?
it's probably a fake, HP's site doesn't list that they have any 1TB flash drives with their name on it. REAL 1TB flashdrives still cost several hundred dollars (USA).

 

[Patriciah Kariuki]

Sad sad but probably true it's a fake one. Thanks

 

[colonelcorto]

exFAT doesn’t support journaling, try formatting it in NTFS. THis will destroy all of your data.

 

[USAFRet]

Hello, I need help. My 1TB flash drive, with the exFat file system, corrupts all my files, times it will delete, some don't open.
I have tried changing the file system and it won't. What should I do?

How much did you pay for this 1TB flash drive?
If under $150, it is absolutely a fake.

A $0.50 4 or 8GB drive, with firmware modified to report as "1TB". Whatever you had on that thing is gone gone gone. (actually, never was there in the first place.)

 

[colonelcorto]

Oooo. Just read the “can’t change file system.” I think windows has an override command you can use in the command line. Or find a Linux box and use Gparted.

 

[AllanGH]

exFAT doesn’t support journaling, try formatting it in NTFS.

Most people, when they consider the implementation of a journaling FS, are concerned with FS resilience and data integrity.

With those goals in mind, NTFS is more of a Fisher-Price approach to journaling, since NTFS does not do data or block-level journaling--it is a record-oriented meta data only journaling approach--designed primarily as a performance enhancer rather than a means of enhancing data persistence.

Furthermore, all NTFS objects are files. Metadata is stored in files, and the journal is just a file stored at a midpoint within the FS boundaries. As such, all NTFS structures are subject to fragmentation (NTFS does not self-defragment), corruption, and loss--leading one to reasonably conclude that NTFS installations don't age very well at all.

If your goal, in using a journaling FS, is data integrity, you would be far better-off using a non-ms, data-journaling filesystem; and maintain multiple back-up copies of your data.

 

[colonelcorto]

Fisher-Price approach

I’m stealing this 😆