Did my fiance's computer bork my thumb drive, and what can I do to get my data back? [more inside]
posted by PhoBWanKenobi on Jul 29, 2009 - 11 answers

I want Tinyxp Rev09 to to boot and install to a system's hard drive from a USB key, no CD's involved. How? [more inside]
posted by saysthis on Dec 9, 2008 - 2 answers

Help me get a Memorex USB TravelDrive to work once again with my Dell Laptop! [more inside]
posted by jazon on Oct 27, 2008 - 5 answers

Has my flash drive kicked the can? Windows Vista can't read it. [more inside]
posted by IndigoRain on Sep 27, 2008 - 3 answers

My usb thumb drives won't reclaim space from deleted files (in OS X) [more inside]
posted by tylermoody on May 9, 2007 - 6 answers

Need help with managing volume policy permissions for removable devices in WinXP. [more inside]
posted by caution live frogs on Aug 23, 2006 - 1 answer

I just bought a cheap 256mb flash drive at the university bookstore. It has some bizarre formatting setup where it appears on my iBook (10.4) as two drives, one 1.44 mb, one 244.2 mb. Apparently there are some security features (a .pdf and .exe file were included, the latter of which is obviously no use to me) that are built in as well. [more inside]
posted by rossination on Jun 4, 2006 - 9 answers

Is there anyway I can still access the files on it? If that's not possible, can the drive be still made usable, by reformatting it in some fashion? Or will I just have to get a new one and dumb this one into the garbage can?
posted by sk381 on Jun 3, 2006 - 7 answers

There should only be 5 mb of data on my 1 gig usb drive, but it says there's 493 mb used up. what's going on? [more inside]
posted by jadanzzy on May 5, 2006 - 15 answers

I'd like to password protect the contents of a USB thumbdrive that will be accessed from an OS X and Windows platform. [more inside]
posted by jaimev on Dec 7, 2005 - 9 answers

Does anyone know a simple (and free) method of password-protecting my USB thumbdrive?
posted by celibate_life on May 17, 2005 - 14 answers

I have in mind a device: it is portable (battery-powered); you plug pen/jump/thumb drive 'A' into it, and then plug pen drive 'B' into it. Press a button, and 'A' is mirrored to 'B'. Does this device exist?
posted by everichon on Mar 24, 2005 - 4 answers

Having had any chance of a steady internet connection from home lost for the time being, is there a kind of 2005-style offline reader software available that can download mail to a single file on a usb key, to load up and reply to at home outside of the time and money limits of a dingy internet cafe? [more inside]
posted by syscom on Jan 14, 2005 - 3 answers

So I just got a 512MB USB key drive as an early christmas present, and I'm looking for interesting things to put on it (other than, you know, files). I know about Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird, but is there anything else I should check out?
posted by kaefer on Dec 24, 2004 - 11 answers