Hello,

I use my usb flash drive for playing songs in my car. I once used the flash drive for copying some pdf files from a desktop PC. Since then I think I got infected with some virus. I tried to format the USB flash drive but I keep facing the same problem over and over.

I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3. Kingston Data Traveler G3 USB Flash Drive.

Symptoms of the problem:

My flash drive contains some music folders and each of them is more than 2kb, since those folders contain many mp3 songs. Now every time I try to open the folders in the usb flash drive, I keep getting this message "J:\RECYCLER\383B3FB65419F842DC70602F98130B3.e xe"

I tried attaching the jpeg file but I'm not sure if its uploaded or not.

After scouting the Internet for possible solutions, I tried the clearInf file and made a batch file and kept in the flash drive. But I'm not sure if its really helping or not. The code of the batch file is like this

"rem @echo off
Echo Copy this file to the top level of the disk or USB from
Echo which you want to remove the Autorun, then run it
Echo press Ctr C to stop now, or Enter to continue
Pause

Attrib -r -s -h Recycle /s /d
Attrib -r -s -h autorun.inf
Attrib -r -s -h /d /s "Recycle\P-1-3-64-8794238531-8742492-9897532"

Del autorun.inf /q
"

Any help or guidance would be really helpful.
Thanks.
Sai

According to what you have posted that file doesn't exist. Have you tried looking to see if it is on that drive in another directory?

Yea, this is happening only when I try to open any of the folders. But in reality when I plug the flash drive in my car, it starts playing audio(mp3). After reading your reply I retried by plugging and it started playing in the car audio, the songs/folders exist. I'm pretty sure and confident about it.

This is happening very frequently, what I mean is when I earlier reformatted the flash drive and copied songs as shown in the attachment. Then I could play the songs in the car, but when I try to open, copy new songs or folders into the existing folders then I'm getting the error message.

I just went into the cmd prompt and into the drive letter. In the dir listing, its showing as foldername.lnk, but when I CD into the HINDI/ENGLISH/TELUGU folders, I could see all the songs.

Each time I need to format the drive, and copy the songs is becoming a pain. So any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks
Sai

You said you were trying to format but you were getting an error when doing so? Might want to try something other than Windows to format it.

Try one of these programs out and see it works:

http://en.kioskea.net/download/formatting-partitioning-73