I tried ReadyBoost with a really cheap Compaq Vista machine I bought for my
daughter (came with only .5G memory and was very slow). It did not work very
well. Ended up putting in 2 G of memory and it now runs like a blue streak.
Charlie
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Not having Windows Vista or Windows 7 I'd never heard of Windows
> ReadyBoost. But in looking up info on your specific flash drive I see
> comments that it supports ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost has the ability to use
> flash drives as memory cache while at the same time using part of the
> space as a stadard disk drive. A 16GB flash drive would normally be
> formatted as FAT32. However, using ReadyBoost requires that the drive
> be formatted as NTFS or exFAT in order to avoid the 4GB file size
> limitation of FAT32.
>
> Questions: Are you running Vista? Is it possible that Windows' query
> about formatting the drive is actually a request to reformat to NTFS or
> exFAT in order to support ReadyBoost?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> > I think you're in a state of denial. The indication is that the drive
> > has failed in some way. I find it difficult to believe it's the fault
> > of FastStone. FastStone (like other browsers) does write to a directory
> > even if you're only viewing it but all it does is create/update a
> > thumbs.db file in that directory. Going from application file write to
> > totally destroyed drive directory structure should be an impossible
> > thing without the complicity of a serious bug in the OS. That also
> > seems to me highly unlikely.
> >
> > You need to open that second drive to assure yourself that it's good.
> > If you're leery of FastStone use Explorer or even use a minimalist
> > approach. Start a command line window and type DIR d: where "d" is the
> > drive letter of the flash drive. If the second drive is OK (meaning you
> > see a list of files from the DIR command) then you want to copy that
> > data somewhere to form a second backup until you figure out what's going
> > on with the first drive.
> >
> > What you do about the first drive depends on whether you are able to
> > create a second backup from the second thumb drive. In any case I would
> > apply an image recovery program to the first drive just to see what's
> there.
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >
> > Brian Swale wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> As a temporary solution to my digital image storage problems, I took
> about
> >> half my E-1 images from my hard drive and placed them on an A-Data USB
> >> 2.0 Flash drive E704 - 16 GB.
> >>
> >> I possibly looked at them once using Windows Explorer after storage, to
> >> make sure they were there.
> >>
> >> Until a few nights ago when I looked at them also with FastStone Image
> >> Viewer.
> >>
> >> Now, Windows Explorer tells me that the drive is unformatted, and do I
> want
> >> to format it now? NOT. A friend's XP laptop tells me the same.
> >>
> >> Actually, I told a lie. I bought two of these Flash Drives, and made
> two
> >> backup copies of about 36 x 72 images (give or take 100%). As far as I
> >> know the 2nd backup drive is OK but I'm rather scared to open it.
> Certainly
> >> not with FastStone.
> >>
> >> Any comment / similar experiences with FastStone will be listened to
> >> seriously.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Brian Swale.
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