I have a Dell Inspiron 600m that has a weird problem: USB flash drives aren't detected at all, but other usb devices (i.e. external usb harddrives) work perfectly fine. Clean install of Windows with updated drivers does not fix this problem. My google-fu apparently isn't sophisticated enough to dig up a solution. Ideas?
posted on May 30, 2008 - 6 answers
I'm interested in a fast, high-capacity (at least 4GB) usb flash drive. Does anyone have any suggestions? Speed and reliability are important.
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 8 answers
I've recently purchased a new external USB DVD drive, as I do not have a floppy drive or internal CD/DVD drive on this windows PC. I am trying to set it up now for dual-booting Solaris+Ubuntu but, even after updating the BIOS (Phoenix 6.00) I cannot boot a USB drive.
First, does anyone have a way I could somehow add USB drivers as a boot option (along with XP), so that I can then add Solaris and Ubuntu (making it four options at boot)?
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posted on Dec 26, 2007 - 9 answers 
I did something dumb, have I screwed up my USB key / flash drive?? [more inside]
posted on Oct 20, 2007 - 9 answers
Thumb Drive Life Cycle [more inside]
posted on May 24, 2007 - 2 answers
How do I add or change something in Windows' "what do you want to do?" list for a plugged-in device? [more inside]
posted on Apr 15, 2007 - 16 answers
I'm returning a worthless SanDisk USB Flash card reader. What is an alternative card reader brand that you recommend? [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2006 - 10 answers
ObsoleteWindowsFilter: Is there such a thing as a universal or at least general driver for USB 'Pen' Flash Drives for Windows 98? [more inside]
posted on Oct 13, 2005 - 6 answers
So I have a big conference coming up and we’re considering giving each attendee a usb-drive with all the presentations on. The problem is that if I don’t find a way to automate the copying of files I have to do it manually by myself! (+)
posted on Feb 16, 2005 - 19 answers
I'm off back to the parents in a couple of days time for Christmas and will invariably need to tune up their Windows PC. My USB key-chain currently contains Firefox, Thunderbird, AdAware, Spybot S&D and ZoneAlarm updates as well as service packs and virus definition updates. What else should I include?
posted on Dec 21, 2004 - 7 answers
Can a USB flash drive be used as your Windows swap space? What are the positive aspects of a design such as this?
posted on Sep 7, 2004 - 18 answers
Trying to find an appropriate model of one of those little USB flash drives.. [more]
posted on Apr 22, 2004 - 8 answers
I recently got a new Sony Vaio. Its great, except I didn't realize it didn't come with a floppy disk drive. So, what I'm looking for to replace it is a small USB drive (around 64-128 megs). I've seen a bunch online and at stores for sale, but anyone here personaly use them and know what a good brand is? I want one that hooks to a keychain and can take a good amount of abuse (I don't care about extra features like security- my main concern is will it break easily and be around for a good while). Any ideas?
posted on Dec 24, 2003 - 15 answers
