Flash Drives in Vista
Sat, 03/10/2007 - 01:31 — Storytell
I have Vista Home Premium and it refuses to accept my flash drives in the USB port. I have tried three different ones and if I get it to work for 2 minutes when I try to write to it it hangs the system. Any help?
Please!
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Could you give some more details regarding your system, the flash drives and the errors if any?
Are you sure that those flash drives are working properly? If you have the possibility, try those flash drives with another PC in order to make sure that the flash drive is working properly. Then, you could try again the flash drives on the first system but using a different USB port. If it does not work please report back with details.
go get cheap one from tescos
go get cheap one from tescos 1 gig or 2 both work fine
Flash Drives in Vista
If the drive is found without errors, then Vista might not be assigning it a drive letter.
Right-click My Computer and select Manage.
Then select Disk Management.
See if the drive is listed there. If it is, right-click on the partition and select Change Drive Letter and Path...
Assign it a drive letter or change it to a different one. It may be trying to step on an existing drive letter or Windows may be confused on what to give it. If the last drive letter shown on a drive is H:, then give your flash drive I:. Once you save your changes, the drive should light up and be working. It is also possible that you need partition and format the drive.
If the drive doesn't show at all, check Device Manager for errors. You may have a conflict or need to update or load chipset drivers for your motherboard or USB card.
thanks!
this worked for me. i could not locate the drive to save a file, took me 2 hours of searching, but after reading this post, i looked closer, and found the files on the thumb drive (finally recongized the pics and docs while searching) but it was not under removeable storage, it was under my regular shared drives (for work). the drive had the same letter as an existing shared drive. i changed it to Q and the autoplay came up immediately. also, prior to doing this, i tried the unistall/install...it did not wipe out my files. i am using vista and a diskgo usb mass storage.
Thank you so very much!
Flash Drives won't work with Vista Home Premium
I too am having the same problem. Sandisak Cruizer mini 1.0gb and Memorex Traveldrive 1.0gb.
They work fine on XP at the office. No drivers for either on various websites. Over an hour with Dell produced no results. Microsoft tells me to contact Dell.Four USB ports on the computer and all produce the same results. The ports have been used successfully with Laplink transfer and HP lazerjet printer installs. What gives and how do you fix it?
Flash Drives won't work with Vista Home Premium
Seconds on the Memorex Traveldrive (2 GB) problems. Works fine on my XP comp, but my Vista comp blows a gasket when I plug it in. Works fine with the el cheapo old thumb drive, though.....
Format the Travel Drive in
Format the Travel Drive in Vista as an NTFS drive. The default format of FAT causes problems in Vista. I formatted my Travel Drive as NTFS and have had not problems since.
travel drive
How are you supposed to change the travel drive so that it does work? I have one flash drive that isn't working, simpletech but it does work on other computers. My other flash drive works on this computer no problem and they both have been used with windows xp or vista recently, it just doesn't work on this comp. What is something that I can try to fix this is laments terms since I don't know much about computers?
Possible Solution
I made a search on google and I have found out that many people have similar problems.
That's because many USB flash drives have built-in software that runs every time you plug-in the drive into a PC.
Unfortunately the software loaded on these drives is incompatible with Windows Vista and not the drive itself.
You need to either update the software and download a Windows Vista compatible version or format the drive to delete everything that is included on it.
I hope this helps.
Memorex Traveldrive
Maybe this solution helps:
http://www.memorex.com/html/support_search_faq_step3.php?qid=435
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