[GRLUG] Windows Thumb Drive Issue

Jeff DeMaagd jeff at demaagd.com
Fri Aug 30 15:33:05 EDT 2013



I recall Centon being a somewhat dodgy brand. I don't think it's a house 
brand, CompUSA also carried it back when they still existed. I'd return 
it if it's a recent purchase, or set it aside.


On 8/30/13 1:10 PM, Eric Beversluis 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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Jeff
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