My USB flash pen drive does not open. I have very important data/documents saved in it.
When I try to open the pen drive, I get the message 'Access denied'.
This is happening in every system i plug in.
It's a ZION 2GB flash drive
How can the problem be rectified without loss of data?

praveenkumar, October 2007

Open My computer, right click on the USB and click explore... simples!

SallyH, July 2010

I have lot of data on my flash drive but when I try to open it I get a message, the disk in the drive is not formatted do you want to format your flash drive?
Any suggestions?

ssj, November 2009

It's just a virus affection.first quick format your pendrive with the antivirus s/w.

vidhyasaranya, December 2008

kcdda:

It works like a charm

Thanks!

Luis, November 2008

my pendrive is not opening at all
plz give me solution for this

arvind, November 2008

I can mentioned a temprory solution for this....try to end the process "explorer.exe" on the running system and restart the "explorer.exe" on the new task that available on task manger window.
steps:
Go to file and select new task in that field enter explorer.exe.After this try to double click on the pen drive .I think it will work for you....If its working please revert back to me...

kcdda, August 2008

Hi,

I had the same problem.
If i am right your antivirus program would find 2 infected files: copy.exe and host.exe
These files are not on your pendrive phisically.
And you can access to your pendrive, by rightclick on the drive, and clicking on the open option.
I did the following:
1. I copied everything to my harddrive
2. I formatted my pendrive
3. And copied back everything to pendrive

Since these files are not on your pendrive phisically, the cannot be selected or copied, so the stay on your pendrive when you copy everthing to your harddrive.

I hope this is the solution for your problem too.

Peter Pantz, October 2007