[GRLUG] Windows Thumb Drive Issue

Joshua Yuhas uhawl1 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 30 14:14:24 EDT 2013


Ooooo... waiting for the "off topic" police to come marching in.


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:48 PM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does it work on a linux box? (Partial serious question, partial
> humorous "is this on topic for this list") :P
>
> My suspicion would be some issue with the USB ports on the problem machine.
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > I've got a thumb drive formatted FAT32. It works fine on one Win7 box--I
> > just copied files to it there. When I plug it into a new HP Elite Book
> > 8570p running Win 7 Professional, it can't read it. It's a DataStickPro
> > 30GB by Centon (that may be a MicroCenter brand?).
> >
> > When I go into Disk Management on that box it shows a D: drive but shows
> > it having no media.
> >
> > I've tried several other thumb drives and they all seem to open up right
> > away.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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