dolphin said:
Ok here is the deal i have the device infront of me.It is called Scan
Disk / USB FALSH DRIVER
From another message in this thread I see you meant *San* Disk, not "Scan
Disk." Sandisk is the name of a company, and among their products are USB
flash drives. A flash drive ( aka thumb drive or pen drive) is simply a
portable drive that can be used to copy data from one place and move it to
another.
You don't *need* a thumb drive, and if you want a thumb drive, there are
many companies which make them besides Sandisk. If he told you you *need* a
Sandisk product, he was quite obviously less than straight with you.
A thumb drive (whether from Sandisk or any other company) is one of several
ways to move data from one computer to another. Depending on the amount of
data you have to move and how often you will need to do it, it may or may
not be the best way for you. If it's just once it may not be a bad choice,
but once again, if you will want to do this often, my personal preference
would be to set up a network between the two computers.
On the other hand, since you say you have the drive in front of you, you
apparently did what he told you to, and bought the device. For the future,
let me point out that the major qualification for getting a job as a
salesperson in most computer stores is the willingness to accept minimum
wage. These people are almost always a very poor source of information.
What you bought will probably work for you. It may or may not be the best
choice, but it will work. To use it, simply plug it into a USB port on the
"from" computer (the laptop)? and copy the files you want to it, then plug
it into a USB port on the "to" computer (the desktop?) and copy the files
from it. While it's plugged in, it will work much like a diskette would.
