Re: USB drive is not formatted

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We don't know if it is the USB drive or the USB port that's marginal. I have
a USB mouse that works perfectly well on one USB port of my laptop and on
all other machines . On the other USB port it fails to be recognised. Yet
this port works fine with all other USB devices.

In other words, it may be a question of tolerance. Your father's flash disk
may have drifted a little too far to one side and his USB port may be a
little too far on the other side of the specifications. You can observe the
same phenomenon in some marriages where it is referred to as "mutual
incompatibility" . . .


"Todd Virlee" <ToddVirlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have seen other people report that numerous USB drives fail on their
computer. How are we to know that his machine is any different? What do
I
do if I get him another drive and it fails too?

"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:


"Todd Virlee" <ToddVirlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If it does work in another computer, then what does that mean with his
machine?


It means this:
1. Save the data on that other machine.
2. Format the flash drive.
3. See if it works reliably. If it doesn't, throw it away.





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