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Problems with 2gb flash drive
I recently purchased a 2gb flash drive formy home use. The first time I
plugged it into my study machine, it was recognised, no problems. I wanted to add a program to my laptop, so I copied the file to the drive and removed it properly via the icon in the tray. Plugged the drive into my laptop, no problems. Now if I go to put the drive into my main computer, I get the audio sound saying it has been plugged in and about 5 secs later anothe sound that would happen if I took it out without going through the correct procedure. No matter what I do I cannot get that drive to be recognised by my main computer. I have another much smaller flash drive that works fine on both computers. This one has me somewhat mystified and any ideas/help would be much appreciated. Peter |
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Problems with 2gb flash drive
take it back sounds like a bad drive
"Exfso" wrote in message ... I recently purchased a 2gb flash drive formy home use. The first time I plugged it into my study machine, it was recognised, no problems. I wanted to add a program to my laptop, so I copied the file to the drive and removed it properly via the icon in the tray. Plugged the drive into my laptop, no problems. Now if I go to put the drive into my main computer, I get the audio sound saying it has been plugged in and about 5 secs later anothe sound that would happen if I took it out without going through the correct procedure. No matter what I do I cannot get that drive to be recognised by my main computer. I have another much smaller flash drive that works fine on both computers. This one has me somewhat mystified and any ideas/help would be much appreciated. Peter |
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Problems with 2gb flash drive
If the drive is faulty, why then does it work ok on my laptop.
"BigJim" wrote: take it back sounds like a bad drive "Exfso" wrote in message ... I recently purchased a 2gb flash drive formy home use. The first time I plugged it into my study machine, it was recognised, no problems. I wanted to add a program to my laptop, so I copied the file to the drive and removed it properly via the icon in the tray. Plugged the drive into my laptop, no problems. Now if I go to put the drive into my main computer, I get the audio sound saying it has been plugged in and about 5 secs later anothe sound that would happen if I took it out without going through the correct procedure. No matter what I do I cannot get that drive to be recognised by my main computer. I have another much smaller flash drive that works fine on both computers. This one has me somewhat mystified and any ideas/help would be much appreciated. Peter |
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Problems with 2gb flash drive
Exfso wrote: If the drive is faulty, why then does it work ok on my laptop. "BigJim" wrote: Let's make sure. Go into Control Panel to Computer Management. Open Disk Management and check if the flash drive is recognized. It might be missing a drive letter. If this is the case, then manually assign it a drive letter. OTOH, if the flash drive is not seen in Disk Management, then it is defective. |
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Problems with 2gb flash drive
I've had alot of problems with USB pen drives picking and choosing which
windows configurations they want to show up under. The work-around that I've found is to open an application like Excel, and click the Open button. This brings up the pop-up folder explorer. You should see the drive installed in the root, right click it and open. You should now be able to read/write from the drive as normal. Explore option will not work however, it will send you back to My Computer instead. Hope this helps.. "Exfso" wrote: I recently purchased a 2gb flash drive formy home use. The first time I plugged it into my study machine, it was recognised, no problems. I wanted to add a program to my laptop, so I copied the file to the drive and removed it properly via the icon in the tray. Plugged the drive into my laptop, no problems. Now if I go to put the drive into my main computer, I get the audio sound saying it has been plugged in and about 5 secs later anothe sound that would happen if I took it out without going through the correct procedure. No matter what I do I cannot get that drive to be recognised by my main computer. I have another much smaller flash drive that works fine on both computers. This one has me somewhat mystified and any ideas/help would be much appreciated. Peter |
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Problems with 2gb flash drive
Thanks for the replies, I have found the problem. I rang the manufacturer
who advised me to download a small program for their drives which formats the pendrive. After doing this all works perfectly. I know this should not need to be done, but it has been fixed. The manufacture is Legend in Australia and the program which only works on their drives is called G-format from their site. Peter "letterman" wrote: I've had alot of problems with USB pen drives picking and choosing which windows configurations they want to show up under. The work-around that I've found is to open an application like Excel, and click the Open button. This brings up the pop-up folder explorer. You should see the drive installed in the root, right click it and open. You should now be able to read/write from the drive as normal. Explore option will not work however, it will send you back to My Computer instead. Hope this helps.. "Exfso" wrote: I recently purchased a 2gb flash drive formy home use. The first time I plugged it into my study machine, it was recognised, no problems. I wanted to add a program to my laptop, so I copied the file to the drive and removed it properly via the icon in the tray. Plugged the drive into my laptop, no problems. Now if I go to put the drive into my main computer, I get the audio sound saying it has been plugged in and about 5 secs later anothe sound that would happen if I took it out without going through the correct procedure. No matter what I do I cannot get that drive to be recognised by my main computer. I have another much smaller flash drive that works fine on both computers. This one has me somewhat mystified and any ideas/help would be much appreciated. Peter |
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