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?
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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.
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.
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
Vista Flash Drives
Your solution would be great except for one small thing. These drives don't even get to the installed condition. Once the drive is seen as new hardware and looks for drivers, it is all over. Vista can not find the drivers anywhere on the computer or the web. It then tells you to look to the manufacturer. There are no drivers for these flash drives as they work very well on XP. The only driver updates are for 98SE. If you try to use these, the system comes back with these won't work on Vista or the drivers are not needed with Vista. The circle continues to ever widen as Dell India has no answers and Microsoft won't listen.
4 gig Travel Drive
Same problem here, and I did the "http://www.memorex.com/html/support_search_faq_step3.php?qid=435", that was useless. I paid allot of money for this traveldrive. I'm really starting to believe in the Apple commercial where the one guy represents apple and the other guy in the hospital gown represents Windows. Get a new OS and you have to change all of your peripherals. My printer, old but useful is no good with Vista either. What a downer this upgrade has been so far!
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