I've got a freebie 128MB thumbdrive which just died on me last week. I didnt lose anything important, thankfully. I suspect i must have dropped it somewhere at somepoint. But what gets to me is that i cant seem to format it (using WinXP) or do anything with it now. I tried the Quick Format and normal format in FAT32 and normal FAT. Nothing works. It just says that windows was unable to format it after a few seconds. Any ideas? Is there a stronger low-level format software i can download and try? I'd hate to think i'd have to junk it. Its less than a year old and since its a freebie from a conference i attended last year i cant return or exchange it.