How to recover corrupted text file / lost clusters- USB driv

[Sylvander]

Looks like you've managed to [attempt to] read the contents of a [Puppy?] program file
[it cannot read the program code, but can read the text]...
That includes some text...
That makes reference to:
autorun.inf
and...
Slacko-1
and...
Found [Like when Slacko-1 has found its slackosave file]

[canbyte]

Hi Sylvander
That autorun thing activated again on the flash drive i had transferred the files to and in a different file - it must have been when i was composing the previous message and trying to copy stuff from the corrupted file. Kinda freaked me out so I deleted the autorun file which was something to do with the original Sandisk flash drive - it came with that file and a whole directory for some kind of club so I deleted everything.

Contents of the autorun.inf file (according to windows notebook)

[autorun]
action=Get special offers from SanDisk partners
open=RunClubSanDisk.exe
icon=RunClubSandisk.exe

Will post again if the problem crops up again.
Thanks for all your help on this.

--------------------------------------------------------------------new problem

I opened, edited and tried to save a file on the same flashdrive. Gave an error message
Cannot open read-only filename. File may be truncated. or something similar

I couldn't figure out how files became read-only but after unmounting and remounting the drive, found that the files were now writable as usual. Weird or what? Will monitor to see if this becomes a recurring thing.