flash drive

i have a 8 gig flash drive ..ive used it before but now it wont even let me format it..it says write protection..

Hello I started a thread in Win 8 hardware[flash drive] and when I tried to reply I was prompted to re enter my information again. I copied my post and left the site . I then returned and pasted the reply I was originally was sending. Do you think I was being phished when I could see my name...

Hello I received a postcard from a credit card company with an offer for a 64 GB flash drive whose brand is a well known pc retail store. It is $7.49 if the credit card advertised is used. I don't think I can mention the store but my question is, would you consider this to be a safe drive...

On my sony VAIO duo 11 windows 8, I have a virus that makes everything a "shortcut" especially on my flash drives. The problem is, I want to reinstall windows from the recovery partition that's on the HDD. However, every time I try to copy the recovery partition onto a flash drive, it copies...

Today I tried to save a file to my flash drive and found that when I saved the file it also created a shortcut for the file. I attempted to delete the file, I was able to delete it but then a second later the file returned. I thought maybe it was the flash drive but when I was searching my...

I just tested a new Corsair Flash Voyager 3.0 flash drive I got, and was curious why it is considerably faster transferring a file to the drive than it is to transfer the same file off the flash drive back to the desktop? Shouldn't it be about the same either way?

I've done a little Googling...at least enough to know that the type of software that I want is available, but at a price. Does anyone know of a good clipboard manager that can be run from a flash drive and works with a variety of Windows and Linux OSs (preferably freeware)?

Acer Aspire laptop. Host OS : Win 7 Home Premium SP1. Guest OS : Win 8.1 pro preview installed in VMware Player Win 8.1 does not see my external hard drive or flash drive when I plug them into the USB ports. How do I correct that? Thank you.

Learn how to make any bootable CD or DVD bootable on a USB flash drive. This process allows you to quickly and easily create bootable USB flash drive copies of important software, such as Microsoft Windows, firmware update utilities, and various Linux operating system distributions. Most CDs and...

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My computer has been blue screening for well over a year. I put it in storage after it started happening, the problem persists after os reinstall, complete and total format, and with a new graphics card. Myself and a colleague had assumed through process of elimination that it was my Radeon 4850...

Of course this is Windows 8, with Start8 and ModernMix to make it bearable. My account is an administrator. UAC is off (I build a lot of live CDs and flash drives that can't be built with UAC on). For the last week or so I've had problems running Google Drive or choosing Run when I download a...

Hello all, I purchased this flash drive from Amazon am I'm happy with its performance (for the price): Link Removed The manufacturer claims read speeds up to 190MB/s and write speeds up to 55MB/s. These benckmarks were conducted at USB 3.0 speeds and, FYI, my OS is on an SSD: Link Removed...

I need to create an unattended ghostcast installation for windows 7 that won't care about the dell computer type. Here's the criteria: Install using ghost cast from flash drive Fill all windows installation forms Auto Enter the windows site license key Ask computer name Install the correct...

http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/18137-after-two-weeks-windows-8-i-find-least-stable-os-2.html#post24693 I've decided to move my comments about Windows 8 as "the least stable OS" to a new thread because my problems continue. My question is: What to do when you get the...

hi i recently built me a new computer installed everything SaberTooth 990fx R2.0 mobo and 32gb of corsair memory windows 7 64bit everything was working fine till i decided to bios update then after successfully doing soo my computer would not load windows it would say the boot drive is...

I have a computer with a corrupt registry to the point where it will not boot. I do not have a good system recovery and the backup registry files in RegBack don't help when I copy them over to system32. I can't use any of the registry repair tools that I have found because they all require...

I have been trying (without success) to transfer my e-mail folder files from my old computer (Dell Inspiron 530 using Vista) to my new computer (Sony Vaio using Windows 8). The transfer is from Windows Mail to Windows Live Mail. The recommended method on the old machine using a flash drive is...

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-P61-S3 (rev. 2.0) Ive managed to update/flash (its the same thing?) my bios from F5 to F7 version within an utility provided by motherboard manufacturer called @BIOS ( you can find it on the same support and download section ). I had 3 options to...

I'm having this problem with my flash disks on W8 Pro with Media Center x64: "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38) The driver could not be loaded because a previous version of the driver is...