I bought it used. maybe it had a
driver erased by refurb?
It says 2MB all over.


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> I bought it used. maybe it had a
> driver erased by refurb?
> It says 2MB all over.
>
>
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Have you tried formatting the usb stick?

Bill

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> I bought it used. maybe it had a
> driver erased by refurb?
> It says 2MB all over.
>
>
> - = -
> Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
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> [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for
> Bimbos]

Crooks found them easy to counterfeit. Hope yours is not one. s

I'm not sure but I think it was from cyberguys.com. It is fluroescent Green
and has 2GB written from the inside of the plastic. It says "FLASH DRIVE USB
2.0 2GB" in white letters. It is shaped like a flattened enlarged pill
capsule. I looked to find it on froogle and instead found an orange
fluorescent half gig drive that otherwise looked identical.

We had some new (different) flash drives and whenever a (brand new Vaio)
machine first uses them, it says something about loading matching driver,
which seems to be sitting on the drive. This is why I fugured maybe when they
"refurbed" it they removed the driver.

I never had to format a flash drive before.

What I do have experience with is some W98 machines need a new driver for
each flash drive.

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I have a possible clue: when they refurbished it, they reformated using
the wrong kind of FAT. And it needs to be formatted by FAT32.

Does this make any sence? (Please elaborate - how do I do this?)

It has no firm name on the case, but I suspect it is a WinTec FileMate.
But, I only have 30% confidence of this suspicion.
If it is, I'll try their driver.

I've had this a while, but I never needed the full drive.

Now I discovered "Portableapps.com" and ran out of space.

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R-click on it in My Computer, pick Format.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> I have a possible clue: when they refurbished it, they reformated using
> the wrong kind of FAT. And it needs to be formatted by FAT32.
>
> Does this make any sence? (Please elaborate - how do I do this?)
>
> It has no firm name on the case, but I suspect it is a WinTec FileMate.
> But, I only have 30% confidence of this suspicion.
> If it is, I'll try their driver.
>
> I've had this a while, but I never needed the full drive.
>
> Now I discovered "Portableapps.com" and ran out of space.
>
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> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
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> [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
> [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for Bimbos]

Well, I moved my stuff off the keyfob, reformatted it and it is still
half a gig. It took an hour to move the files back even though it only
too about five minutes to move them off. I'm totally baffled.


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They use FAT32 on the USB flash memory, FAT has a limit of
100 items in the directory. You need to use folders and
sub-folders to get a full capacity.


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| Well, I moved my stuff off the keyfob, reformatted it and
it is still
| half a gig. It took an hour to move the files back even
though it only
| too about five minutes to move them off. I'm totally
baffled.
|
|
| - = -
| Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart,
Pindus, BioStrategist
| http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
| ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully
disclaimed.}---
| [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy
obstructive guards]
| [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal]
[Windows is for Bimbos]