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Jeff
....this one isn't my problem but a friend's, so I might not have 100% of the
details. ...thought I would ask this group for some clues - I have one idea,
but I'm not sure about others.
....friend works in a place where he does not have admin access to his
computer and the IT support ain't great (toward the point of being
non-existent). For some reason, his portable usb jump drives won't reliably
work in the machine. From what I understand, some drives work while others
do not.
I've been told that some of the older portable usb drives required
administrator access to load the necessary drivers, while most of the newer
ones apparently use some type of more universal driver that is already
loaded into XP. So, if you use these older drives on your own machine where
you have admin access the drivers load fine and all is well. When you take
them to a work type machine where you don't have admin access, the drivers
won't load and the things can't be read unless you get someone with admin
access to load the things.
....that explanation sounded reasonable, but I've never had the problem
because I've never been on a machine that I didn't have admin access to, so
I'm not sure if this is correct or if there is another explanation for why
some of the portable usb drives won't work in some machines while working
fine in others (and the machines are fairly new P4s running XP with the
latest patches and service packs).
Jeff
details. ...thought I would ask this group for some clues - I have one idea,
but I'm not sure about others.
....friend works in a place where he does not have admin access to his
computer and the IT support ain't great (toward the point of being
non-existent). For some reason, his portable usb jump drives won't reliably
work in the machine. From what I understand, some drives work while others
do not.
I've been told that some of the older portable usb drives required
administrator access to load the necessary drivers, while most of the newer
ones apparently use some type of more universal driver that is already
loaded into XP. So, if you use these older drives on your own machine where
you have admin access the drivers load fine and all is well. When you take
them to a work type machine where you don't have admin access, the drivers
won't load and the things can't be read unless you get someone with admin
access to load the things.
....that explanation sounded reasonable, but I've never had the problem
because I've never been on a machine that I didn't have admin access to, so
I'm not sure if this is correct or if there is another explanation for why
some of the portable usb drives won't work in some machines while working
fine in others (and the machines are fairly new P4s running XP with the
latest patches and service packs).
Jeff