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| Thread ID: 98807 | 2009-04-08 01:39:00 | What gives with my flash drive? | amyes5 (2773) | Press F1 |
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| 763106 | 2009-04-08 01:39:00 | I've got a 16gig flash drive from overseas & for a while everything has been Ok.However my computer has now started saying "insert disc in Drive ...when I plug it in.Hardware profile recognizes it as flash drive & Xp tells me I have up to date drivers so what gives? When I plug it into my DVD player or my HD recorder it is now not recognised. As these things have no moving parts I am a bit perplexed. | amyes5 (2773) | ||
| 763107 | 2009-04-08 02:13:00 | Had a Flash Drive ( only 1 GB ) but same problem /message - the file system had become corrupted - in the end I copied all the data to a PC, reformatted the drive put the data back- all was well. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 763108 | 2009-04-08 03:04:00 | You can try uninstalling it under Universal Serial Bus Controllers in Device Manager. Then reboot. If that doesn't work boot into a linux live CD such as knoppix, and copy the data to the PC then format as Wanuitech said |
Blam (54) | ||
| 763109 | 2009-04-08 07:28:00 | Somehow I think it's the flash drive thats the problem.Other f/drives still function and the problem one wont go in other usb units.There's a lesson here folks "you get what you pay for!!" | amyes5 (2773) | ||
| 763110 | 2009-04-08 07:34:00 | It definetly is the flash drives problem. Doubt its the USb controller, get anotehr USb to test if you want |
Blam (54) | ||
| 763111 | 2009-04-08 07:40:00 | Another issue you may be striking is the allocation of drive letters, particularly for any optical (CD/DVD) drives you have. For example, you have hard disc (C:) Probably CD/DVD (D:) If you plug in a flash drive, it probably becomes E: However, if the flash drive is already plugged in at the time you boot up, you might get: HDD C: Flash Drive D: CD/DVD E: Now any games that look for the CD/DVD at startup will probably be looking on D: for the game, as that is the drive letter that was assigned at the time the game and shortcuts were installed. However, D: now has a flash drive and no game... resulting in a message to Insert Disc. So in summary, it might be other installed programs that refer to D: E: etc that are causing these messages. The drive itself might be fine. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 763112 | 2009-04-08 07:42:00 | Oops, disregard my above message now - in the light of your post made while I was writing mine. Also, the smilies were an unintended result of typing ( C : ) without the spaces. |
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