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I bought the following usb drive a couple of months ago, and it has never worked properly
It constantly crashes my laptop, sometimes even causing it to shut down, and if it even lets me view its contents, after a while it will crash again. Transfer times are ridiculously slow
BUT it works on my friend's XP comp - om running home premium
Any ideas?
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/.....oduct.html
its really annoying because I really need it working!
When you format a USB flash drive, all of the data on it will be erased. The command line "convert" program can be used to change a FAT32 partition to NTFS without erasing the data, but this will only work on hard drive partitions. I don't think it will work for a flash drive.
I'm not going to change my flash drive to NTFS because I'm using it to copy files for use on my Xbox 360 which can only read FAT32 from external USB devices.
While surfing around and reading about USB flash drives, I found this interesting site:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html
This guy seems to know a lot about USB flash drives, has written several utilities, and has troubleshooting and tips&tricks. It turns out that you can use convert.exe to change a flash drive from FAT32 to NTFS without formatting, but see Uwe's advice about the cluster size.
Aleeve, that site may be able to help you if other things you try don't work. He also mentions an interesting tool called devcon.exe which is built-in to Vista. At least, it is on my 32-bit Vista HP w/ SP1
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