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neil
Perhaps its just faulty, I can happen.
Neil
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Punjab The Sailor Man
How does a memory stick become unusable? I plug it in and Windows dings.
It shows up as removable Disk F:. When I click on it, it says please
insert disk in drive F. I can't even look at it.
It shows up as removable Disk F:. When I click on it, it says please
insert disk in drive F. I can't even look at it.
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Richard in AZ
Does this memory stick work in another computer?
Do other memory sticks work in this computer?
You need to do a little logical checking to see if it is a bad stick or a PC problem.
Do other memory sticks work in this computer?
You need to do a little logical checking to see if it is a bad stick or a PC problem.
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Punjab The Sailor Man
Must be the stick. It don't work in any computer, Windows nor Linux butRichard said:Does this memory stick work in another computer?
Do other memory sticks work in this computer?
You need to do a little logical checking to see if it is a bad stick or a PC problem.
other sticks work ok. I was just wondering why.
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Punjab The Sailor Man
Also Windows format says it's in raw format but when I try to format itRichard said:Does this memory stick work in another computer?
Do other memory sticks work in this computer?
You need to do a little logical checking to see if it is a bad stick or a PC problem.
fat32 it says it can't determine the number of sectors.
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AJR
Punjab - a lot of fuss over nothing - if you "click" on your CD drive and
there is no disk in the drive guess what messasge you see on the screen -
right, you will be asked to please insert a disk.
There is nothing "stored" on the "stick" - instead right click and select
"properties" to view the specs.
there is no disk in the drive guess what messasge you see on the screen -
right, you will be asked to please insert a disk.
There is nothing "stored" on the "stick" - instead right click and select
"properties" to view the specs.
J
John Wunderlich
Must be the stick. It don't work in any computer, Windows nor
Linux but other sticks work ok. I was just wondering why.
Memory sticks are usually Flash type memory. This type of memory
characteristically has a limited number of write cycles (although that
number is fairly large). Directly accessing files with programs that
do large number of read/writes to the device in a short amount of time
can drastically shorten their lives. A good practice is to copy files
to the hard drive, work with them there, then copy them back to the
memory stick when done.
Quoting from
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive> ...
Weaknesses
Like all flash memory devices, flash drives can sustain only a limited
number of write and erase cycles before failure. Mid-range flash drives
under normal conditions will support several hundred thousand cycles
[...]
FWIW,
John