New 32 Gb USB stick wont work

[dinkel]

I've had this problem before but my methods don't work this time. Hope you can help me out.

- Bought a nice Alfa Romeo gadget 32 GB USB stick for my in-car music
- Clicked it in my 2008 iMac and dumped it with fav tunes from my iTunes lib
- Copy did not run so I abort and used Mac Disc Utillity to partition, initialize etc
- After 2 days - this takes time - it recognizes the USB stick in the Mac Disc Utillity but won't show on my desktop > where is it?
- Laptop pc (10) ditto, no show no go...
- What to do?

There must be a way to wake up the stick? Hope you can help. Thx.

[Cerberus90]

Taking 2 days to partition and initialise sounds very wrong to me.

No idea on macs, but in windows if it's at all working it should show in disk management.

Could it be a duff fake stick? Where did you buy it from?

[MitchT]

Alfa Romeo you say? It's supposed to sit around looking nice, not actually work! BTW, don't let it near water!

[mcflurry]

Is the music in a format that the Alfa can read?
Have you tried another stick?

[Troubleatmill]

Probably 16Gb is the most the Alfa can read.

[marshalla]

Cerberus90 said:

Taking 2 days to partition and initialise sounds very wrong to me.

No idea on macs, but in windows if it's at all working it should show in disk management.

Could it be a duff fake stick? Where did you buy it from?

Agreed. 32Gb should be done much more quickly than that, depending on the USB interface.

I suspect fake or faulty.

[dinkel]

LOL - I use a handfull USBs and they work fine.

What's the procedure on my laptop PC (MSW10) then? It just won't show up?

[megaphone]

What did you format it in? Mac OS Journaled? In which case I doubt it will work as that is Mac specific. Needs to be FAT32 to be recognised by 'normal' players, also tracks may need to be MP3 rather than AAC.

[Cerberus90]

In windows, if you type 'disk management' in after hitting start, and open that up, it'll show you all storage devices attached. The USB stick may show up in here even though it doesn't show in 'This PC'/My Computer.

If it is there, then right click on whatever the partition is and delete it, should all show as unallocated space, then create a new partition using FAT32.
Make sure you delete the partition on the USB drive and not any other drive.

[dinkel]

Yup - stick is broken.

[daemon]

dinkel said:

Yup - stick is broken.

Sorry to hear, but cant help but think of the irony of an Alfa Romeo USB stick breaking down..

[dinkel]

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