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Using Flash Drive to Transfer Data to Windows 7?

by Mar 18, 2012 11:05AM PDT

I have a new little Flash Drive, 8 GB's, have been told you just highlight whatever you want to store in it, select G: at the bottom of the list in My Computer, then Right-Click your document, right? Is formatting auto-matic? If not, how do you do that?

Thanks again to Everybody for the discussion about Print Spooler errors, from which several of us probably learned something we'd never thought about before, that may be useful in future.

A store technician today said Recovery Disks wouldn't be enough, that you have to ReInstall Windows, and would lose all your data. But you can save it to your Flash Drive, and nothing will be incompatible if you even put it into a new computer? Asus will be okay to learn Windows 7 on? Heard anything bad about it? There
are other lightweight computers.

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Yes, that's about right.
by Forum moderator Mar 19, 2012 5:37AM PDT

A memory stick or Flash drive is used just like any folder in Windows Explorer or My Computer.

I always open two instances of Windows Explorer and tile them vertically side by side, then I open the Flash drive, (you say it is G:\ on your system but it could be anything on other systems), in one window. In the other window I navigate to the files I want to copy to the flash drive, then I just 'drag' them across the windows into the Flash drive window.

No need to format, it should be ready to go.

Mark

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You're Using Windows 7, not XP, Right?
by lesliebuc Mar 19, 2012 10:15AM PDT

Someone showed me that procedure today. For XP, I should have clicked it first (?), then Open or Open New Folder, before highlighting and right-clicking, right? And I can unplug it from Hubman's left foot without looking up "Safely Remove Hardware"? The flash drive is half my question, thanks.

More about the Print Spooler problem, one salesman said I'd have to get Windows reinstalled, if it's missing, (Is he right?) and another said if I get a new computer, and a new 2004 leftover all in one like my old one, I'll still have to find a Driver, to make it compatible with Windows 7. And every new version? Would HP's UNIVERSAL Driver always work with whatever Printer, always? Although it looks complicated,
2 or 3 pages of instructions, if I remember correctly.

I had your suggestion printed, about installing extra things DURING a Recovery install. May not be able to find anyone else who knows anything about that. Would some details be too much to ask? Are there many details? Does a Print Spooler have to be specially installed, isn't on the Recovery Disk?

The set of 8 Compac Presario CD's don't provide any details for a basic user, a very senior citizen. The first disk of the set has sort of an Index, and the others all seem to have three things, all the same, except a couple of disks also have Tools. There was a Patch for the Flash Drive, which I downloaded, but maybe shouldn't have, should delete it?

Since theres sometimes a paragraph here in red reminding us to provide our tech information, I'm Using Compaq Presario XP Home 2002, Model 5400 something, SP3, Firefox default browser.

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