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Can't write to flashdrive?
A friend may have removed her USB flash drive without the proper
procedure, just pulled it out. A) If you haven't written to the flash drive for, say, 10 minutes, and you know all your writes concluded 10 minutes ago, do you really have to use that procedure? I can't remember, and her know-it-all son says No. B) She can read from the drive but not write to it. What's the next step? Running chkdsk? C) She has to keep her client records for years to come. Should she also burn CD's to hold them. Should she print them out? Interestingly, she bought a second USB flash drive and it wouldnt' work either. It didn't display the slightest message when she plugged it in. The guy at Office Depot where she bought it said her OS was old (she has XP SP2, but she didnt' remember that.) and he said it couldn't find the drivers! Turns out the drive was too fat to go into one USB slot, but it worked fine in the other! She's retiring in two weeks and she has to take all her personal and client files off the Board of Education laptop, so she'll have a copy. And she has to remove them all so whoever sees the computer next won't see them. The files are records of her psychological sessions with public school students. |
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Can't write to flashdrive?
On Mon, 16 May 2011 06:14:37 -0400, mm
wrote: A friend may have removed her USB flash drive without the proper procedure, just pulled it out. xp has a setting which allows you to just pull out the flash drive or have to go thru the proper sequence to do this. I accidentially stumbled upon this once. |
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Can't write to flashdrive?
On Mon, 16 May 2011 22:49:07 -0500, "RnR" wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2011 06:14:37 -0400, mm wrote: A friend may have removed her USB flash drive without the proper procedure, just pulled it out. xp has a setting which allows you to just pull out the flash drive or have to go thru the proper sequence to do this. I accidentially stumbled upon this once. I'd love to know more. Do you mean left clicking on the icon in the systray and then clicking on the little rectangular box that shows up? Her son just showed me that Sunday night. Thanks everyone for your replies. |
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Can't write to flashdrive?
On Tue, 17 May 2011 21:27:37 -0400, mm
wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 22:49:07 -0500, "RnR" wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 06:14:37 -0400, mm wrote: A friend may have removed her USB flash drive without the proper procedure, just pulled it out. xp has a setting which allows you to just pull out the flash drive or have to go thru the proper sequence to do this. I accidentially stumbled upon this once. I'd love to know more. Do you mean left clicking on the icon in the systray and then clicking on the little rectangular box that shows up? Her son just showed me that Sunday night. Thanks everyone for your replies. With a flash disk inserted, Device manager, Disk drives, double-click the flash disk, Policies tab. Select 'Optimise for quick removal'. It's still safer to also click on the icon in the systray when removing. |
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Can't write to flashdrive?
On Wed, 18 May 2011 13:36:10 +1200, Tom Cole
wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 21:27:37 -0400, mm wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 22:49:07 -0500, "RnR" wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 06:14:37 -0400, mm wrote: A friend may have removed her USB flash drive without the proper procedure, just pulled it out. xp has a setting which allows you to just pull out the flash drive or have to go thru the proper sequence to do this. I accidentially stumbled upon this once. I'd love to know more. Do you mean left clicking on the icon in the systray and then clicking on the little rectangular box that shows up? Her son just showed me that Sunday night. Thanks everyone for your replies. With a flash disk inserted, I guess I don't see this, because I usually don't have a flash disk inserted, especially when I'm wandering around screens like Device Manager. Device manager, Disk drives, double-click the flash disk, Policies tab. Select 'Optimise for quick removal'. Ah, disable write caching. Yes, I can see why that is important here. It's still safer to also click on the icon in the systray when removing. Okay. I'll still do it. Thanks a lot, Tom. |
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Can't write to flashdrive?
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mm wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2011 13:36:10 +1200, Tom Cole wrote: [...] With a flash disk inserted, I guess I don't see this, because I usually don't have a flash disk inserted, especially when I'm wandering around screens like Device Manager. Device manager, Disk drives, double-click the flash disk, Policies tab. Select 'Optimise for quick removal'. Ah, disable write caching. Yes, I can see why that is important here. It's still safer to also click on the icon in the systray when removing. Okay. I'll still do it. Thanks a lot, Tom. Along these same lines, there is a program called "USB Safely Remove". It works far better than the one built into Windows. And I use it on all of my computers. It is one of those programs that once you use it, you never want to be without. ;-) http://safelyremove.com/ -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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Can't write to flashdrive?
Hi!
B) *She can read from the drive but not write to it. What's the next step? * Running chkdsk? If the drive is readable, back up everything that is on it. I strongly suggest that you do NOT run chkdsk (it cares only about file system consistency, and will destroy data to make the filesystem consistent). But if you simply must, or feel that it will help, back up the data first. C) *She has to keep her client records for years to come. *Should she also burn CD's to hold them. *Should she print them out? Never put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. If the information is this valuable, it should be stored across multiple, differing media in various physical locations. Interestingly, she bought a second USB flash drive and it wouldnt' work either. *It didn't display the slightest message when she plugged it in. * The guy at Office Depot where she bought it said her OS was old (she has XP SP2, but she didnt' remember that.) and he said it couldn't find the drivers! *Turns out the drive was too fat to go into one USB slot, but it worked fine in the other! Nearly all USB mass storage devices (external hard drives, flash drives, etc...) use the generic mass storage class drivers built into the operating system. There are few exceptions, mostly older hardware. Any version of Windows 2000 or later has built in mass storage class drivers that will work fine for just about anything. William |
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Can't write to flashdrive?
On Fri, 20 May 2011 07:40:40 -0700 (PDT), "William R. Walsh"
wrote: Hi! B) *She can read from the drive but not write to it. What's the next step? * Running chkdsk? If the drive is readable, back up everything that is on it. I strongly suggest that you do NOT run chkdsk (it cares only about file system consistency, and will destroy data to make the filesystem consistent). But if you simply must, or feel that it will help, back up the data first. C) *She has to keep her client records for years to come. *Should she also burn CD's to hold them. *Should she print them out? Never put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. If the information is this valuable, it should be stored across multiple, differing media in various physical locations. I emailed her 9 days ago, and called her cell and left a message 8 days ago. I called her house and left a message with her husband 5 days ago that she should read her email, and I called at dinner time 2 days ago. I finally got her. It's true I'm sure that she's writing final reports on everyone of her clients (students) and she has to get them finished by today iirc. Monday she spent 7 hours straight to do 3 of them. She hasn't read her email, and she's out of time, so rather than copying the records from the computer to the CDs, it will probably be from the new flash drive to the CDs. That will probably give the same result, and any errors will probably never be noticed, becuase she will probably not actually have to read her record ever again. If the kid gets a new psychologist, he'll read her report that she is in the process of writing and submitting (and saving for herself) and then start down his own path. If the kid doesn't, still people will mostly go by what happens in front of them and their opinions about it. And if she does need a report again, it likely won't have the errors or they will only affect one or two words, so she'll understand it all anyhow. The important thing is, I tried. I'm a little annoyed that she didnt' get back to me at all in a week, but she's very nice to me lots of time (I eat there several times a year and I'm invited for more.) so I should forget about that. Interestingly, she bought a second USB flash drive and it wouldnt' work either. *It didn't display the slightest message when she plugged it in. * The guy at Office Depot where she bought it said her OS was old (she has XP SP2, but she didnt' remember that.) and he said it couldn't find the drivers! *Turns out the drive was too fat to go into one USB slot, but it worked fine in the other! Nearly all USB mass storage devices (external hard drives, flash drives, etc...) use the generic mass storage class drivers built into the operating system. There are few exceptions, mostly older hardware. Any version of Windows 2000 or later has built in mass storage class drivers that will work fine for just about anything. Yeah, the Staples guy didn't know what he was talking about. I'm glad I said that firmly to her before I noticed the flashdrive didn't fit in the jack. She too noticed that the computer did absolutely nothing when she put it in the USB jack, but she didnt' think to use the jack the mouse was in! William Thanks a lot. |
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Can't write to flashdrive?
On May 25, 12:40*am, mm wrote:
The important thing is, I tried. * I'm a little annoyed that she didnt' get back to me at all in a week, but she's very nice to me lots of time (I eat there several times a year and I'm invited for more.) so I should forget about that. You have done more than required. It is, after all, her problem, not yours! |
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Can't write to flashdrive?
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mm wrote: [...] Yeah, the Staples guy didn't know what he was talking about. I'm glad I said that firmly to her before I noticed the flashdrive didn't fit in the jack. She too noticed that the computer did absolutely nothing when she put it in the USB jack, but she didnt' think to use the jack the mouse was in! You have mentioned this a number of times in this thread. And there is an easy solution to this problem. As they sell short USB extension cables. I like them for this reason, plus they save wear and tear on the computers USB ports. And now all of the wear is on the extension USB cable that can be easily replaced if it ever goes bad. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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