[GRLUG] Windows Thumb Drive Issue

megadave megadave at gmail.com
Fri Aug 30 15:03:29 EDT 2013


Is this a USB3 device? Even if it isn't, do any of the machines you
are trying it with have USB3?

There could be some sort of compatbility issue there.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> Yeah--works fine on the linux box as well.
>
> On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 13:48 -0400, megadave 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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