Help, unable to open my usb stick on my sony!!!!!

[stacey1981]

Help, unable to open my usb stick on my sony!!!!!

Please can someone help!!! I have a new sonyviao computer and I have two usb stick with alot of work on I wanted to transfer to my new comp. One worked fine and the other one will not open on the comp. A message comes up and saying that i need to format it, so i follow the instructions and then when i start the format process it then says that to do this will erase all the data on the drive.  when i press cancel it tells me to check that the files are not read onlyfiles and i cant find anywhere where it shows that. Please can someone help me as i deperately need to get into this usb.

Thanks,

stacey

[stacey1981]

Please can someone help!!! I have a new sonyviao computer and I have two usb stick with alot of work on I wanted to transfer to my new comp. One worked fine and the other one will not open on the comp. A message comes up and saying that i need to format it, so i follow the instructions and then when i start the format process it then says that to do this will erase all the data on the drive.  when i press cancel it tells me to check that the files are not read onlyfiles and i cant find anywhere where it shows that. Please can someone help me as i deperately need to get into this usb.

Thanks,

stacey

[sgdavies]

Hi Stacy,

Well Maybe the files on that failed USB stick are "corrupted" in some way, have you still got the original files somewhere? if so formate that USB and re-copy the original files onto that Stick, if you dont have the original files, and they only exist on that USB stick then, try opening the USB Stick on a different computer, copy them locally to that PC, then reformat the USB, then copy back to USB Stick and try again on your new Vaio.

Good Luck!