[GRLUG] Windows Thumb Drive Issue

megadave megadave at gmail.com
Fri Aug 30 13:48:41 EDT 2013


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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