Q. All of my IMPORTANT data is on my flash drive. And all of a sudden it is saying that I have to format it in order to use it. When I go to format it is says that it will erase everything on the flash drive to format it. How can I avoid losing all of my data.
A. Formatting WILL erase all your data.
Try the drive in another machine, if it works, it's your computer that's faulty.
If that's the case, try this on your computer...
First try unplugging (and removing the battery on a laptop), press the power button for five seconds. Leave it for two minutes and try the USB again.
If that doesn't work, remove all USB devices....
Restart in Safe Mode*
Open Device Manager, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click System. On the Hardware tab, click Device Manager.
Double click 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers'. Right-click every device under "Universal Serial Bus controllers", click Uninstall and click OK for each instance. Don't worry, Windows will re-build them.
Restart normally and try again.
*Note: On start up (before Windows loads) keep tapping either F5 or F8 (be aware that some manufacturers use F8 for system recovery!) then use arrow keys to highlight 'Safe Mode with networking' and hit Enter/Return, click on a user account, enter the Administrator password (if you don't know it, there probably isn't one so leave it blank) and hit Enter/Return.
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Try the drive in another machine, if it works, it's your computer that's faulty.
If that's the case, try this on your computer...
First try unplugging (and removing the battery on a laptop), press the power button for five seconds. Leave it for two minutes and try the USB again.
If that doesn't work, remove all USB devices....
Restart in Safe Mode*
Open Device Manager, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click System. On the Hardware tab, click Device Manager.
Double click 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers'. Right-click every device under "Universal Serial Bus controllers", click Uninstall and click OK for each instance. Don't worry, Windows will re-build them.
Restart normally and try again.
*Note: On start up (before Windows loads) keep tapping either F5 or F8 (be aware that some manufacturers use F8 for system recovery!) then use arrow keys to highlight 'Safe Mode with networking' and hit Enter/Return, click on a user account, enter the Administrator password (if you don't know it, there probably isn't one so leave it blank) and hit Enter/Return.
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How to copy Windows 7 recovery discs to a single flash drive?
Q. Should I make separate folders for each of the four discs? Or should I put everything from the four dics onto the drive in one spot without creating any folders for the separate discs? I'm worried that if it isn't done right, the computer won't be able to read the data on this flash drive, should it ever need to.
A. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9hv0WOETLw
If you back up mac os 10.1 on a flash drive will it make that flash drive unusable, or unrecognizable to a mac?
Q. I updated to mac OS 10.1 lion and made a recovery disk with a Kingston DT108 data traveler on my laptop. When i plug the flash drive in my computer does not show up anywhere.
A. ...what? First off, that's Mac OS 10.7, not 10.1. Second, it will have absolutely no effect on the flash drive. If it's not showing up then it probably just croaked.
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