re: can't transfer files to flash drive
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jerry V.
(120 messages posted)
well, the problem was found. Actually the 2 Kingston flash drives were the problem.
I went to the Kingston web site & they had the problem addressed & also the fix.
http://www.kingston.com/support/USBFLASHDRIVES/faq/pcdt_27.asp
Thanks for responding to my problem
On Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 9:27 am, Alan Masterman wrote:
>Hi Jerry,
>I'm not a USB expert, so I can't be as specific as you might like, but as you've
>tried different ports and flash drives, with no success, the clear inference is
that
>the problem lies within the operating system.
>In WinXP there are basically five files which relate (do a file search quoting "USB"
>to confirm that this is true for your system). In the directory C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32,
>they are USBMON.DLL and USBUI.DLL. In the directory C:\WINNT\INF, they are USBSTOR.INF
>and USBSTOR.PNF. In C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS, there is (again) USBSTOR.INF.
>It's possible that one of these has become corrupted, perhaps by a bad sector developing
>on your hard drive. First run CHKDSK, to cover that possibility, and then re-instal
>known good copies of these files (which you can download from the internet). Try
>to make sure the date/time stamps are as close to each other as possible, (although
>you may not have much choice in the matter.) In particular, the two instances of
>USBSTOR.INF should be identical. This is easily achieved because, obviously, you
>can download one copy and then paste the same copy to the other location.
>
>If that fails, then you'll just have to restore the ghost image which you've been
>faithfully copying at least once a week to an external hard drive. You do have
that,
>don't you, Jerry??!!?
>
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