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USB flash drive not woking proberly

by hatem1967 Sep 21, 2007 6:06AM PDT

i had a flash memory drive (Apacer Handy Steno AH220)of 256m capacity and my operating system is XP pro and it was working very well except since a few days i left the drive connected to my PC for few days and then i had a strang problem as i was trying to copy some files to it i had a message that there is no enough space to store and i checked the properities of the drive i found that it is half capaciy and when i tried to erase the data or format it i got a message that is write protected and when i tried to remove this write protection it fails and more strange i found that other folders on disktop are also write protected and i was unable to change this also , virus checking using norton was free, can any one tell me what is the problem and how it can be solved

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First try it on another PC.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 21, 2007 6:18AM PDT

Then try a new stick. These things have limited life spans and your story is not unlike what I read when the stick fails.

Bob

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i allready did

by hatem1967 Sep 22, 2007 10:18PM PDT

i allready did this but i got the same reply and even if i ignored this i can not also solve the problem of desktop folder

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So new sticks are failing?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 22, 2007 11:42PM PDT

That's bad. I'd install a new PCI USB 2.0 card and use those new connections.

Bob

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try getting a different type

by andy419 Sep 28, 2007 4:30PM PDT

some types of flash drive are weite once to use as backups for windows, so check what type you got. Also, if you are copying system folders or aplications, that would be the problem also

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