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Geek Culture / Problem accessing data on pen drive.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 13th May 2005 05:04
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Hey all,
Earlier to-day I downloaded the trial version of FPScreator (the only chance I have to use broadband) and stored it on a BenQ 128mb usb2.0 pen drive. Before downloading the trial the pen worked fine on my computer (didn't install any drivers) and after downloading it worked fine on the computer I was using at the time.

When I got home though and stuck the pen into the usb port a small window pops up that looks like this...



I have tried restarting my computer numerous times and have checked the benq website but can't find anything of any use. I'm pretty sure the problem is nothing to do with drivers. I'm also sure the pen drive isn't locked as if it was it would at least come up with a window like this...



If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated as I've got the only backup of my puzzle compo source on the pen and I wouldn't mind having a go with fpsc either.




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Flindiana Jones
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Posted: 13th May 2005 05:13
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Hmm... I've never had that happen with a pen drive: closest thing was when i tried to use a damaged CD.

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Posted: 13th May 2005 05:24
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have you tried to cancel the autoplay and browseing to the drive and then exploring it?, windows automagic stuff often falls on it`s face or fails to detect media changes etc, try copying the whole drive to my documents.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 13th May 2005 06:52 Edited at: 13th May 2005 06:54
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Hmmm, thanks for the help. I've tried browsing to the file and instead of being called Fish's File (which I renamed it) it's just called Removable Disk(J: ) If I highlight or right click on this to copy it windows explorer stops responding and I get ye olde "do you want to send an error report?" message.

If I double click on it I wait a few seconds and then this message pops up.



I hope this helps.

p.s. If I remove the pen the Removable Disk(J: ) icon disappears and when I put it in and out it makes the 'bing!' sound so it's obviously recognising it's there, it just ain't letting me get to it.



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EddieB
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Posted: 13th May 2005 07:05
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You might want to re-format it and download it again.

I downloaded the trial today. On my new 2Meg broadband I only got it today.

-Eddie

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Posted: 13th May 2005 10:50
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Quote: "Problem accessing data on pen drive."


maybe its out of ink?

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Posted: 14th May 2005 05:26
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i have never had this prob with a pen drive...

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Posted: 14th May 2005 06:34 Edited at: 14th May 2005 06:34
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sounds like it got corrupted somehow, try eddie B`s suggestion, if that fails then it may be dead, I never heard of a pendrive dying myself, but my brothers kids managed to kill a cheap MP3 player by yanking it out before it had finished transfering, just couldn`t do anything with it after that, you could see if there are any pendrive tools out there on the net.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 14th May 2005 07:13
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YAY!!! It worked. I didn't think I'd be able to format it because after right clicking the screen froze, I left it a few secs though and the menu popped up so I clicked format and 'lo and behold, it works again. Thanks to everyone for all there help. I'm a happy chappy.






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Posted: 14th May 2005 07:21 Edited at: 14th May 2005 07:21
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