Hard to believe anyone would sell a Vista machine with 1/2 Gig.
Chuck Norcutt
Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> 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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