07-31-2009, 04:52 AM
Nobody in the room with Windows machines commented on being unable to use the flash drives that they had. I did not check the Mac users (there were several) but did not hear anyone commenting on being able to use the drive, but they could have and I did not know about it.
I can insert it 10 times in either USB port on my MBP and get the failure. I have not tried the rebooting with the drive in 10 times, nor do I have access to the other MPB G4 involved.
Disk Utility sees the drive and calls it unformatted and will neither repair nor verify the disk. BTW: it is a 3.7GB Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Media according to Disk Utility.
Since I was able to get the files that one time, there is not a lot of fixing of this specific flash drive that I need to do (e.g. reformatting it) but I am trying to figure out why some machines can open the files and some cannot. I'll be getting another similar drive (different files) from the same people in November, so it would be nice to know what's going on here.
I can insert it 10 times in either USB port on my MBP and get the failure. I have not tried the rebooting with the drive in 10 times, nor do I have access to the other MPB G4 involved.
Disk Utility sees the drive and calls it unformatted and will neither repair nor verify the disk. BTW: it is a 3.7GB Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Media according to Disk Utility.
Since I was able to get the files that one time, there is not a lot of fixing of this specific flash drive that I need to do (e.g. reformatting it) but I am trying to figure out why some machines can open the files and some cannot. I'll be getting another similar drive (different files) from the same people in November, so it would be nice to know what's going on here.