Weird USB pen

[carpy666]

Here is an unusual event, has anyone come across this before?

I have a 256mb USB pen, after transferring data sveral times with no problem. Then one day I placed the pen into my PC and hey presto it recognises it as a USB floppy drive 1.44MB!!!!????

I have placed my pen in two other machines but both report this as an USB floppy.

As anyone experienced this pleasure? If so how did you get your PEN back to full capacity.

I have lost my memory.

can anyone help.

Many thanks.

Mick.

[carpy666]

I have fixed this problem, see note 1. which solved my problem.

Although I did lock the pen and inserted into USB port, then removed pen. Unlocked pen and reinserted pen. Hey presto all memory restored OK.


Posted this just in case anyone else has similar problem.



The USB Flash Drive has two partitions on there. One is a 1.44MB size (size of the floppy disk) and the other is the remainder of the flash memory.

If your PC/MAC is not showing both partitions then there could be one of two things wrong (not serious).

1. On the side of the pen is a write-protect switch. Move the switch to the unlock sign and plug it into your USB socket. You should now have two drives in Windows Explorer. Make sure that you eject the device safely before moving any switches.

or

2. Issues arise when you already have an F drive assigned for a device (hard drive, CD-ROM, external device, etc).
My recommendation to you is if you are working in a company plug the USB Pen Drive in first and then switch on your computer and login as usual. If you already have a F drive assigned on your office computer locally on your machine you must change that drive letter. I advise that you speak to your Network Administrator for that.
If you are a home user (not logging in to a company domain), if one of your devices is assigned as an F drive, change this to a different drive letter.



It is best to check suggestion one first. If that cures it then there will be no need to do suggestion two.