Windows 10: Windows 10 May 2021 Update - Thumb Drive Failure

Good day everyone, I just tried to update my Windows 10 to the latest Windows 10 May 2021 release. I was prompted that I had inadequate disk space and I had to plug in an external drive with at least 10GB free space. I plugged in my SanDisk 32GB drive- it was not empty but it did have about 24GB free. It proceeded with the update and eventually prompted me to restart the computer. I tried to tell it to restart now but it wouldn't allow me to select the option- button was unresponsive. I then selected remind me in an hour. After I closed the window I manually selected update and restart fr

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Help Me Pick a Thumb Drive

I have recently lost my favorite thumb drive. It was only 1gb, and about a 3 years old. I now need a new one with the following requirements:

• 4 - 8 gb
• Will be carried on a keychain in pocket for 10 hours in a day (MUST BE STRONG)
• Must be relatively fast
• Under $90

I trust you guys can help me with this. Also, I want to order it from Newegg preferably.

Edit: Also I am going to grab this tonight, as school without a thumb drive is painful.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Can a thumb drive be disabled by malware?

There are quite a few possibilities to what happened to your thumb drive:

1. It might be a simple issue where the partition got corrupted: In this case you can go to Computer Management > Disk Management> and check out what partition your thumb drive currently has. If it currently is in RAW format or is just unallocated, I suggest you unallocate the entire drive and make a new partition. It's possible that you can recover upto 99% of your files with a tool like EaseUS DataRecovery Wizard Pro.
   
2. The malware corrupted your thumb drive's firmware: The malware that your thumb drive may have encountered may be similar to something like BadUSB. It may or may not have modified your drive's firmware to transmit malware, but in any case your thumb drive's pretty dead, and there's not much you can do about it.