[GRLUG] Windows Thumb Drive Issue

[West Mi]

sounds like you forgot to safely remove it from the windows box.......


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Eric Beversluis <
ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:

> The drive in question opens fine under Knoppix on that hp Elitbook
> 8570p.
>
> So does that make it an HP problem or a Windows problem--given that
> windows 7 on a different box opens it fine.
>
> Thanks to all.
>
> On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 15:33 -0400, Jeff DeMaagd wrote:
> >
> > 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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