2 XP thumb drive questions

[The Old Fart]

I stuck 2 thumb drives into my USB2 ports with the intention of
transferring some files from one to the other. All that happened was
that I got a blue screen. Should I have been able to do this? I ended
up transferring the files from one drive to the deck top & then
transferring them into the second drive.

Can files in thumb drives be password protected? If so how?

 

[Guest]

BSOD's are almost certainly some broken hardware, or bad driver issue.

There are utilities available to password protect thumb drives. I would try
download.com, or tucows.com

 

[The Old Fart]

BSOD's are almost certainly some broken hardware, or bad driver issue.

There are utilities available to password protect thumb drives. I would try
download.com, or tucows.com

What are BSOD's? Am I correct in assuming that XP should be able to
transfer data from one thumb drive to another?

 

[Guest]

Blue Screen of Death, a nickname given to windows errors that result in a
debug screen dump. It's a 'picture' of the where the processor was when it
jambed.

Thumb drive files should drag around just like any other windows explorer
folder.