Re: Flash drive full -- no files!
- From: "Admiral Q" <Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(No-Spam-Man)@(Can-the-Spam)hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 21:15:15 -0400
"<*(((><" <fishy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've got a 1 GIG Sandisk flash drive. I copied some documents and a
couple of programs to it to take to school. When I try to copy
another file to it, I get a message that the drive is full. But when
I use explorer to see what all is already there, all I get is a blank
screen.
Why don't my files show up? Something ate the icons?
Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly,
<*(((>< ~~~
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Just hypothesizing here, if your flash drive has the file format as "NTFS",
which is default for WinXP OS's (I assume that is what you have at home or
where ever it is you copied the files to the flash drive), and the school is
still using Win9x OS (Win98/WinME) or using a Linux Flavor, then those OS's
won't natively read an NTFS formatted drive. Both can be made to read and
write to NTFS file systems, Linux by added some files to the kernal and
rebuilding and Win98/WinME has an NTFS4DOS read (for free), but the writing
will cause - I think that is offered by systernals, which funny, I think was
just bought by Microsoft.
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