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By Paul Driver
(This used to live in the Chaintech Subforum, but I was updating it, and thought it would be happier here)
This is my attempt to help people make a USB Memory Device DOS bootable, using freely available utilities.
I hit the 10000 character...
Started by PaulDriver on
, 15 posts
by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at intelforums):
Makebootfat will require some of the same tools used with the HP utility, and to make a USB Memory Device dos bootable ( say c:\utility\MakeBootFat\....
Makebootfat will allow you to write a Linux image to a USB Memory Device.
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I'm unable to copy files larger than about 100 MB to my USB flash drives on one of my computers. I have four different flash drives. They all give me the same problem on my "main" computer, and none of them give me this problem on my second computer. ...
Started by beedawg on
, 18 posts
by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at majorgeeks):
What is really weird is you can copy from the USB another OS, that rules out any ....
QuoteI would say you have covered all of your bases .
Thanks, again, for all the help and advice.
And copying the file named J to a flash drive now.
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My netbook has a flash drive instead of a hard disk drive, and I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Remix with ext3 as the file system. I've read some articles concerning flash drive wear, and the main concerns seem to be:
The amount of write cycles - each cell can...
Started by Ilari Kajaste on
, 7 posts
by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
I have personally found that....
Drives = Ext3 or Ext2 USB Flash Drives = Ext2 with “noatime” or “relatime” mount option
I guess USB, Flash drive wear and tear is always brought up (SSD and USB) However, I haven't seen it.
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I have a 4 week old Inspiron 1545 with Windows 7 Home premium that has developed an error: USB errors while trying to install a Microsoft USB mouse on this Laptop. Interestingly, my Microsoft USB Mouse installed perfectly first time and worked for about...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at microsoft):
This means that the USB tried both another known-good-working Microsoft....
Just for grins, have you tried another usb mouse yet? MCSE, MCSA, MCDST [If this post helps as an unknown device, it's unlikely to be caused by a mouse driver problem.
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On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:51:54 -0700 (PDT), Bob <jeep@rahul.net
Hello-
Im not sure if this is the group to ask so forgive me if so
please point me to the right group. Im working on an embedded
x86 board that has a 4G flash RAM and has a threshold...
Started by Bob on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
There are two other bits of advice 09:51:54 -0700 (PDT), Bob <jeep....
SD has won the
flash card wars.
Try not to get and are going to stay that way .
Replaceable flash (such as an SD
card or a USB stick) for data logging.
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Never again will you have to choose between having sushi or having a USB memory drive--thanks to the USB sushi drive. These USB drives are hand-made-in-Tokyo sushi replicas. The convincing USB sushi drive comes in several flavors.
http://www.dynamism....
Started by moongirl on
, 15 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at cricketmx):
Valentine....
USB Memory Brick
Each Zip Zip Memory Brick is a high speed USB 2.0 flash memory stick disguised by SanDisk of a 4GB USB flash drive made of tiger eye stone and gold shown at the SanDisk booth.
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:51:38 GMT, "|-|erc" <h@r.c
I just bought a memory stick you plug into your computer
and nothing happened when I tried it. no icon, no directory anywhere,
add hardware found nothing. when my sister plugged her memory stick...
Started by |-|erc on
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by 12 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:13:03, 26 Apr 2009 12:36:39 +1000, ray <ferret57@optusnet.com.au
I bought two USB mice;h@r.c Are you sure it is memory? Some....
With me, and I've been meaning
to make a USB flash drive "boot disk".
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I have made a file recovery software, which reads the FAT32 directory entry and identifies the first cluster of the file and attempts to recover the data, it is supposedly to be working fine however when i try on a fat32 usb disk the following happens...
Started by Anirudh Goel on
, 4 posts
by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
This post on Advice for Testing USB sticks to different sectors to increase life expectancy of the memory chips on write operations) USB that contradicts my assumptions....
You are probably seeing the USB Wear Leveling effect.
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On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:23:27 -0700 (PDT), t8769 <t87699@googlemail.com
I used an 8GB memory stick for a Dell Diagnostic tool, which wiped out
everything on it.
Now it only has 1.96GB, not 8GB.
Can anyone let me know how to restore this to its original...
Started by t8769 on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
In there is the program
HPUSBFW.EXE, which offers to format my USB flashOn Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:30:33 -04....
In Linux, I can force FAT32 formatting on
it, or NTFS up
the C:\DriveKey folder .
Knoppix), for preparing USB flash
drives.
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Help fixing busted usb drive...sigh. Just wondering whether anyone experienced this...so I have lexar s70 8gb usb drive and its pretty much dead as far as I can tell.
So when I connect it to my comp it show us as a removable disk which is correct but ...
Started by octacon on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at redflagdeals):
Time to throw it away....
If it wont work on any computer/USB port - chances ejected.
I would have saidSeems like a dying or dead USB drive to me.
Just get a new one IMO, Not worth the effort .
As a usb memory bar again...sigh.
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