USB thumb drives & Vista

[Annie Woughman]

I have noticed that even after being told it is "safe to remove hardware"
the light on the thumb drive doesn't go off and the next time I put it into
the USB drive of my Vista machine, it always says that the drive needs to be
scanned and fixed. If it was just one thumb drive, I would think it was the
drive, but I get this with all of them, I have three Dane Elec drives, two
Sony, a Memorex and a SanDisk Cruzer. Is this a bug that hasn't been worked
out yet, or is there something I am missing?

 

[Nonny]

I have noticed that even after being told it is "safe to remove hardware"
the light on the thumb drive doesn't go off and the next time I put it into
the USB drive of my Vista machine, it always says that the drive needs to be
scanned and fixed.

WHAT says that. Vista? Another program?

Is this a new computer? Did this just start happening after the
drives always worked?

 

[Annie Woughman]

WHAT says that. Vista? Another program?

Is this a new computer? Did this just start happening after the
drives always worked?

Vista gives both messages, the one that it is safe to remove and the one
asking if I want the drive scanned and repaired. I've had the machine
about six months. Everything works fine--including the USB drives, it is
just an annoying little quirk. On all the XP machines the light on the
thumb drives always turns off when "it is save to remove hardware". It is
only the Vista machine that does this. (Also, it makes no difference whether
I choose to "have it repaired" or just ignore the message the drives work
fine either way.)

 

[Nonny]

Vista gives both messages, the one that it is safe to remove and the one
asking if I want the drive scanned and repaired. I've had the machine
about six months. Everything works fine--including the USB drives, it is
just an annoying little quirk. On all the XP machines the light on the
thumb drives always turns off when "it is save to remove hardware". It is
only the Vista machine that does this. (Also, it makes no difference whether
I choose to "have it repaired" or just ignore the message the drives work
fine either way.)

Definitely strange. AFAIK you're the first with this.

Hang in there... someone smarter than I am will be along soon ;-)

 

[Michael John Ruff]

Hi

Are these USB drives formatted as FAT or NTFS.

Regards

 

[Annie Woughman]

Hi

Are these USB drives formatted as FAT or NTFS.

Regards

They are FAT.

 

[solon fox]

They are FAT.




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The SanDisk Cruzer comes with U3 on it. Do you run U3 on any of your
USB jump drives? If you do, and you don't use the U3 'Eject' then you
will get the message each time you put them back in even though you
used the Vista 'Safely Remove Hardware'.

You wouldn't have any data loss, so you needn't worry about that, but
the U3 Launchpad thinks that you dissed her/him and complains.

-solon fox