Dead Kingston DataTraveler G2

[Brydo666]

Based on the post above, the stick I use from the same batch seems OK. It does show it's made in China though. (Is this not possible?)

Note : All of the sticks I sold had a dark green label on them, the "Kingston" branding on the other side is Black. (As it should be)

First two digits of my Serial Number are CH, which I guess matches the country of manufacture.

[sirdave]

Touch wood mines been spot on no problems at all.

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[fanni]

Well i contacted kingston on sunday regarding this, they put me in touch with an engineer who told me to try a dos based programme called killdisk

gave it ago and got no where fast with it he then wanted serial number so gave it and has given me a RMA notice that i have sent of today and should be getting a new one backin a couple of days

[Brydo666]

Well i contacted kingston on sunday regarding this, they put me in touch with an engineer who told me to try a dos based programme called killdisk

gave it ago and got no where fast with it he then wanted serial number so gave it and has given me a RMA notice that i have sent of today and should be getting a new one backin a couple of days

Good to hear that it's being sorted out, unfortunate that some of these are failing so early in their lifespan.

[garagekru]

shit should'nt have chucked it then never mind

[DJ OD]

The one I had from Byrdo, prob was an earlier one is fine. Has been fine, and is still fine.

When I first had it delivered, I compared it to the one I had bought myself ages ago. Same stick, but the 16gb version. I compared them visually and had no reason to suspect they were non-genuine.

It also has a dark green label, etchings on the usb plug that match the above post, but like Byrdo said, made in China.

Could just be a faulty batch of them that he sold after?


DJ OD

[psxcity]

i use mine brought here daily never let me down yet it was the 1st batch as well

[WRATH OF BOD]

my faulty one was from 1st batch.

[Brydo666]

All of the sticks I've sold came from an original batch of about 1000 from the supplier direct.

I continue to sell them on eBay and have had no problems there... hopefully the number of those that are failing is low.

[fanni]

Just got an email from kingston stating that my replacement stick has been sent out to me

[fanni]

Brand new replacement turned up on saturday

it was replaced with the newer G3 version

[Mobileman]

Just got an email from kingston stating that my replacement stick has been sent out to me

you got email address that you raised rma to mate or link, cheers

[Brydo666]

you got email address that you raised rma to mate or link, cheers

I'd also like to know this should others face the same problem.

[fanni]

Yeah simply go here fill out the form and you'll get a reply next day

When they had deemed that it was at fault they originally asked me to take it back to the shop where it was purchased i said that wasn't possible as was bought while i was way for a weekend and got no chance to go back to that area to swap

so they then gave me a RMA

[sirdave]

I got a load of corrupt errors on mine last night when trying to delete some stuff, had to run a quick windows repair on it and it seems ok but might try sending it back, need to know its reliable to use it really, cheers for the link.

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[Zoots]

Right - second one of these I bought on here has gone tits up now and it's fucking me off. It crashes explorer when ever I put it in and I have to run a check disk and fix before I can do anything with it. Transferring things to it and the progress bar fills up as quickly as it should then just stops and it takes a few mins to put a 100mb file on.

It's pot luck if it'll work when you plug it in and it slows my Popcorn Hour down to a crawl when I try and run stuff from it.

Anyone recommend a decent prog to try and fix this as Windows doesn't seem to be able to help..
I'll go down the RMA route after Xmas but could do with working it before then if only for a couple of days.

Ta.

[evilsatan]

Could look at Fdisk, Gparted liveCD etc. All good fotmat/partition management softwares.

[WRATH OF BOD]

i got my 32gb of here & failed.currupt data & then keps asking to format.
i contacted kingston last week after they asked for some deitails from the drive(printed on the usb connection)
got an RMA NUMBER
I SENT IT BACK RECORDED DELIVERY & 6 DAYS LATER
I GOT THE NEWER G3 VERSION.runs faster & five year warrenty
simple

[Zoots]

Could look at Fdisk, Gparted liveCD etc. All good fotmat/partition management softwares.

Nice one, cheers.

i got my 32gb of here & failed.currupt data & then keps asking to format.
i contacted kingston last week after they asked for some deitails from the drive(printed on the usb connection)
got an RMA NUMBER
I SENT IT BACK RECORDED DELIVERY & 6 DAYS LATER
I GOT THE NEWER G3 VERSION.runs faster & five year warrenty
simple

Yeah, like I says I'll do that when Xmas is done and dusted, but in the meantime I'm going to need it.
The other one I got I gave to someone else but that died ages ago and is now languishing at the bottom of the River Irwell..

[Brydo666]

These drives seem to be failing more and more, two of mines failed but I got new generation ones from Kingston over a couple of days.

A lot seem to be OK though, I apologise to those whom have problems. I'm only glad I made sure these were genuine before buying.