thumb drive

I have a movie that I'd like to watch on my PS3, but it's mkv, which PS3 doesn't recognise. I know you can convert mkv into mp4, which I did, but it doesn't work properly. I converted the file and put it on a thumb drive. The file will now show up when I open the thumb drive on my PS3, but when...

My computer runs windows 7. Keeps staying on Windows getting ready. I have tried hard shut downs, disconnected the battery, all the function keys. The only thing that has an effect is F12 but when I select reboot it goes right back to windows getting ready. F2 just shows info that can't take...

USB 3.0 HUB 3 Port with RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 1000Mbps Link Removed Will above (or similar) allow me to plug a USB3 Thumb drive into one of the sockets, and readily/easily allow connected PCs to share files via the Thumb drive ? The descriptions (on eBay) don't clarify to me - -...

A while back I uninstalled HP client security and HP device access manager, ever since I done that I can no longer access USB device such as thumb drives or external hard drives. I tried reinstalling both, client security installs but now won't uninstall... HP device Access Manger errors out...

Hey everybody , i've got this problem and i don't know what to do .Im wondering if you can give me a hand in solving this issue . Please , i tried everything ... Every USB port i try to use on my pc wont work ,i still hear the windows sound for connecting a device and next the lower right icon...

I recently installed windows 8.1 from 7 and the installation process was smooth and seemed to work just fine. However, once I shutdown and booted up again I got a blank screen right after the windows logo appeared. I can change the volume and brightness at the blank screen but not anything else...

Hello, I am trying to create a slideshow for a dedicated monitor in our office lobby. I have a variety of jpgs (graphics, renderings, photos, etc) created in both Windows 7 and 8. Those created in Windows 7 seem to display just fine but skip anything created on my machine or Windows 8. I am...

Hey, I am going to walk you ladies and gents though step by step so you can tell me the best route to resolve my issue, mmmkay? 1. Bestbuy, puchased 128GB Thumb Drive. 2. Downloaded a game called ShotOnline (file ShotOnline.exe.) into the SanDisk 128GB Thumb Drive. 3. Got a 8AM - 8:50AM Class...

My Win 8 x64 desktop suddenly stopped recognizing USB storage devices (Thumb Drives & 2 External HDD). When working through Device manager, all show yellow exclamation marks and working through properties, all say "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous...

Hello Can I install Win 8 in a falshdrive for free until Jan -'13' ? IIs it possible for the download and installation to all take place in the thumb drive and not get into my pc? Thank you Peter

Full Format is garbage When Full formatting a 16GB thumbdrive using FAT32 with default allocation size, the format takes 33 minutes and 24 seconds (Same as Windows 7) Windows XP-SP2 or SP3 takes 22 seconds to Full Format the same drive the exact same way What did YOU find broken or slower...

I have been curious about this for a while now, when I go to Windows update to do Optional Updates for Drivers where are the actual files stored, are they findable and movable to like a CD or Thumb drive for future use, as we all know most of the driver sites suck now that windows 7 has a very...

I had to use my thumb drive to upload files to a Mac, so I reformatted the drive to FAT32. Now I'm trying to get it back to NTFS so I can use again on my Win 7 machine, but the drive is not even showing up in My Computer. The Drive shows in Device Manager and in Disk Management, but offers me...

I'm doing a fresh install on windows 7, instead of a disk it's on a thumb drive I have a 500 GB Partition I want to install windows to I went through setup and formatted the disk when I try to continue with the installation and get this error. "Windows was unable to setup a new system...

I have several external Drives Thumb Drives plugged in at all times on my computer, about 8 of them.. Every time I boot into my version of mint the latest stable version. All my plugged in drives start up after I boot in to the oS. My Question is how do I stop this? All answers will be appreciated.

A former college student has admitted taking part in a criminal scheme that used malware to steal and sell large databases of faculty and alumni, change grades, and siphon funds from other students' accounts. He used thumbdrives with malware he created to compromise the machines. At first, I...

Hi: I run the backup program, SyncBackSE which among other things backs up files on a thumbdrive. SyncBackSE has been configured to see the thumbdrive as F: but occasionally Windows decides to name it G: and SyncBackSE then fails. Is there a way to tell Windows to lock it to F:? Thanks. Pete

I just now installed Windows 7 on my laptop. I now want to boot from an Ubuntu live CD so I can create a bootable thumbdrive. I need functionality I can only get if I boot directly from the CD (rather than from an ISO on my hard drive, say). But it won't let me boot from the DVD. When I try...

There are endless flavors of "Linux on a stick," tasty downloadable versions of that OS which run from removable storage and let you take Linus' progeny for a spin without dedicating any of your partitions to the cause. There have been ways of making this work with Windows , too, but now...

My icon for safely remove media is in the info bar, if shows what I have plugged in, but it has never disabled a thumbdrive (lite stays on thumb drives) even after I click to remove. Any suggestions? Alan