Cannot Open my pendrive!

[kakashi]

How????
I have never see this before? How can it happen?
How to fix it?
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Please help! Thank you:)

[Overclocker]

Here's a solution from Microsoft but don't perform this unless you have a backup somewhere already!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176646

If not, try to recover the data with a recovery program, here is one from Raymond's blog

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/01/24/top-10-free-data-recovery-software/

[Raymond]

Try this first. Press Win + E key simultaneously to open Windows Explorer. Access your F: drive from there. It "might" be an autorun.inf virus causing this message.

If you still get the message "F:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable", you can try running a chkdsk like what Overclocker suggested.

[kakashi]

I think chkdsk not working, there is some warning there.
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I think i don't have any important thing inside the pendrive, so no need to recover files.
I just want to make it reuseable,because when i want to save something, it can't be opened.
Can we actually reformat a pendrive?

[Raymond]

If there is nothing you want to recover from the drive, try reformatting.