Re: thumb drive won't trun on at boot time

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The wisdom came from typing without my 'brain'? in gear :(

"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, DL.

Could you please tell us where you learned this bit of wisdom?

It obviously is wrong because I regularly shut down and boot up with
multiple USB flash drives in place. No problem.

If you have experienced a problem with this, please furnish details (make
and model of computer, or motherboard if you built it yourself; make and
model of thumb drive; which version of Windows or Vista; how many hard
drives and other devices show up in Disk Management?).

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000

"DL" <notvalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Don't leave the thumb drive inserted when you shut down, or boot up
They are not designed for that


"John" <john6528@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a PNY 16g thumb drive with both my msoffice and vista cd's copied
to it and a few other things. When I boot, the drive isn't recognized and
doesn't turn on. If I pull it out and put it back in while vista is
running it lights up and everything is fine.

Vista home premium 2g mem.

John



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