Have any of you experienced this? I'll files on my home PC that are just fine, put 'em on my flash drive, and when I get to work, some are corrupted.

I've formatted it and error-checked it, but found nothing wrong.

Is it time to just dump it and get another one?

Or worse yet, could the problem be on my PC?

Do you safely remove hardware the drive before disconnecting it?

Also, does your drive to work take you through any regions of extremely high magnetic fields?

I mean EXTREMELY high; it takes a lot to mess up flash memory.

Wouldn't something that powerful also be liable to pull the iron out of his blood?

No, I think the problem is more likely that he's using FAT32 and not disconnecting the drive properly.

My iPod Shuffle insists on using FAT32. I don't use the safe disconnect stuff hardly ever anymore. Don't have problems with corrupted files. Not yet at least.

Hooray buffered writing!

Yes, but I usually have to use Unlocker first. My OS (WinXP Pro) has some bug with the "Cannot delete this folder because a file is currently in use, bla bla bla" and it says that all the time, whether I'm just rearranging My Documents folders or copying/deleting to and from the flash drive.

Yes, it's FAT32. It won't let me do NTFS. I guess that's normal.

High magnetic fields? No, but the magnets in my nametag are pretty strong, but my flashdrive doesn't ever get close to it.

just go spend $15 on a new one

I agree. They are cheap as dirt these days.

I remember when 1 GB was around $150. Damn.

I have a 128 MB one that was given to me as a gift in 2001 or 2002. 128 MB, USB 1.1, and it cost over $100 at the time.

yeah, sounds like a bad drive to me.

My first flash drive was a 128MB Memorex. Unlike many drives these days, it has a write-protect switch. It cost about $80 new back in late 2002, and it still works great today.

By "high magnetic fields" i was talking more along the lines of "does your morning commute put you in close proximity to any neutron stars".

Do you fill it up much? There's been a recall on many thumbdrives in Germany because they'd report as having a 4GB (or whatever) capacity but in reality only having 1GB. As long as you used only 1GB you were fine but as soon as you went over that you'd corrupt your files without even noticing.
Perhaps that's not isolated to Germany.

Ah, no. But I do pass by a cow field. o_0