Two flashdrives will not work

[Runswith]

I bought a flashdrive to store my pictures - a really good, pricey one. Plugged it in, put my pictures in, all seemed well, but when I checked later, quite a few of the pictures were corrupted.

Thinking it was the flashdrive, I returned it, and I bought a cheaper one from the store to try out. The same thing is happening, except now when I plug it in, the computer wants to scan and fix every time. So I do, and I said it fixed the flashdrive. I formatted the flashdrive. It still isn't working correctly. I am currently scanning it using the command prompt.

Is there anything else I can do? I'm thinking it may be my computer - maybe I don't have something I need for newer flashdrives to work? My old ones seem to be working fine, but I'll have to double check after this.

 

[junkeymonkey]

have you look over things like this ??

http://www.howtogeek.com/184640/ask-htg-windows-always-wants-to-scan-and-fix-my-usb-drive-should-i-let-it/

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/98605-disable-scan-fix-removable-disk-prompt.html

thing is and I see it here is to use the safely remove device thing every time . just snatching them out seems to do some kinda harm ??

 

[Runswith]

Thank you for the reply. I did remove it carefully, and I actually did read that article and followed the instructions, but no dice. It says it can't fix it anymore, and the flashdrive has stopped coming up. Before then, it was just corrupting my pictures. (Thankfully I still have a copy of my pictures on my computer).

My old flash drives are working perfectly so I'm thinking either 1: I happened to buy two bad flashdrives or 2: I don't have some sort of updated program that I need for the new flashdrives?

I'm not the techiest person, so I don't really know where to start with this.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I do know with this windows 7 I see pen drives that I have to format over in my Linux os to make them work in 7 ?? I think theres a bug in windows 7 and above ?? at least with 7 anyway

these days theres been some windows updates they gave that can cause hardware not to work - was not that long ago one killed AMD cards and prevented them to load there drivers . removing the update resolved that issue

so is it the drives ?your computer in some way? or a Microsoft crap update that affect newer drives ??