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Emulate USB thumbdrive with laptop

drs933 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:59:19 +0000

Question Edited by Michael Tidmarsh

Debugging USB issues – HELP!

cajunthomas — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:11:44 +0000

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U3-type behaviour on non-sandisk flash drives

Mballard — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:10:24 +0000

Hi, and thanks for taking a minute to read my post.

I wonder if members can increase my undrstanding of this issue:

U3 creates a virtual CD drive and a “normal” hard-drive-like storage location when the flash drive is inserted. The technology was invented by Sandisk andmost of the removall tools look for a Sandisk device.

I have received several no-name flash drives recently with this type of behaviour but the devices are not Sandisk and the removal tools do not work. I have also tried U3-Tools with no success.

I’d like to understand how these devices are created to satisfy my own curiosity. But in the end I’d like to remove the functionality and have just a normal flash drive.

Anyone care to comment?

Windows flash drive formatting issue

WindowsServerATE — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:07:14 +0000

I tried to format a flash drive in NTFS, but it seems to take forever to complete formatting. Is this normal? I also tried formatting the same flash drive in exFAT, which took much less time to complete. However, I can’t use the flash drive with my laptop because it doesn’t have exFAT as a file system for formatting? Why is this and how can I fix it?

Opening Microsoft Office 2003 files on reformatted computer

DLW76 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:55:46 +0000

My computer had to be reformatted and I saved all my information to a flash drive. Now since it has been reformatted Microsoft Office is not on the computer. Is there a way I can bring up those documents from my flash drive since my computer doesn’t have microsoft Office?

Updating hirens boot cd on usb flash drive?

Jsuarez — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:44:22 +0000

How do I update the virus definitions on Hirens boot cd. I have it on a bootable flash drive.

making bootable pen drive

Sunil1 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:05:46 +0000

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I cannot use past 2GB of a 16GB thumb drive, why?

Nixmix182 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:27:05 +0000

Hi,
I am using a generic thumb drive and cannot get any type of file to load up if it is past the 2 gig mark on the thumb drive. No matter what kind of file it is-movies, music, documents- it all will let me fill up until 2 gigs. To explain more clearly I put five 1gig movies on the drive. I can play the first 2 movies but the file is corrupt if I play past 2 gigs. Music is the same way. I have 20 songs on the drive and only the first 7 or so will play. Now I can fill up the drive completely and the files show up but only the first 2 gigs worth of data is un corrupted. I have tried formatting it and that also does not fix the problem. Also a friend told me that sometimes it is the number of files in the root and I needed to create a folder but alas that did not work either. Please someone help so I do not have to throw away a 16GB thumb drive!

USB device issues

Ncalo2009 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:10:55 +0000

I am a green IT employee. And, have had an issue with several laptops not recognizing USB thumbdrives.
When the user inserts the thumb drive the system recognizes it but in “My Computer” it does not show up. But, when I go to “Device Manager” I see the device, re assign an available letter then it appears. This was not happening before and no it is. Is there something I can look or change to fix this annoying issue. I have looked in gpedit.msc to see if anthing looks obvious.

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks,
NCalo

Password Protect Thumb Drive

Lob46 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:46:55 +0000

Is there software to password protect CURRENT thumb drives you have or do you have to buy the thumb drive with the software on it?