FLASH DRIVE ISSUE HELP !!

Why does my FLASH DRIVE inserted to mac then inserted to WINDOWS it turned to shortcut after that i can't open my file to my mac.

I have the exact same problem. Can someone please help?

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USB Flash Drive issues, FAT and Windows, Help!

Here's the deal:
I have a flash drive, I formatted it in FAT because it needs to be used on my Mac (Snow Leopard) and Windows. When I format it, it adds 2 or 3 other partitions like 200MB. BUT does not show it in Disk Manager or in Finder. I can read and write to the drive on my Mac, and it works (Mac thinks it's FAT). When I go to Windows it says it needs to be formatted. So after a leg-breaking experience in XP to reformat it as FAT, I can't just drag and drop folders into it. If I drag a folder to it it gives me an error code -36. HOWEVER, I can make a new folder on the drive (CommandShiftN) and drag files into the new folder. What the heck? Never had these issues in Leopard. What is the issue? Is this just Snow Leopard or is something screwed and I need to reinstall? Help. Thanks in advance.

1) Open Disk Utility.
2) Click your flash drive.
3) Click "Partition" tab.
4) Change "Volume Scheme" drop down box to 1 partition.
5) Change format to FAT.
6) Click "Options" button.
7) Change partition table from GUID to Master Boot Record.
8) Click Apply.
All done.

USB Flash Drive Issue On iMac - 1.1 on iMac, 2.0 on any other Mac

I have a Core i7 27" Late 2009 iMac.
I just noticed this issue today.
I have a couple of Patriot XPorter XT USB Flash drives that I use among my Macs to transfer big files around.
Hooking one of the 8GB flash drives to my iMac, the one listed above, it shows the device operating at USB 1.1 speeds, whether it's in a powered hub, or one of the 4 USB ports in the back of the machine. This was odd, because this was the first time it had ever done this. I only noticed this due to the painfully slow transfer rate the Finder was reporting to me. Restarting the iMac, cold starting the iMac, resetting permissions, PRAM and SMC did nothing. I thought it was a bum drive.
So I grabbed a 16GB flash drive (same brand and model family, different capacity) and it works perfectly fine on the iMac at USB 2.0 speeds. Hmm...
So I boot the iMac into Win 7 Ultimate x64. Both drives are listed at USB 2.0 speeds. Something is definitely afoot here.
To make sure I'm not losing my sanity, I grab my MacBook Pro and test the drives in there. Both drives are listed at USB 2.0 speeds.
I then run to my Mac Pro. Both drives are listed at USB 2.0 speeds.
Did something go wonky on my iMac?
Machine specs (for comparison above)
iMac 27" i7 2.8GHz - 16GB RAM
MacBook Pro 15" Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz - 4GB RAM
Mac Pro Xeon 2.66GHz - 12GB RAM

I think that you are just running into a communication blip between the thumb drive and the controller for the USB ports on your iMac. It is obviously reading the 8 GB drive as older and slower and is assigning that lessor priority to the bus serving the drive.
Have you tried attaching the drive directly to the iMac with no other device connected to a USB port? If it is the same, then I doubt there is anything that you can do, that is going to be the way the USB controller reads this thumb drive.

Flash Drive Unreadable - HELP PLEASE!!

"The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." Story of my life.
I have a 32gb Micro Center brand flash drive. It's completely full of pictures, videos, documents, and files. Every time I stick it into my Macbook Pro, it tells me its unreadable. It gives me three options: Initialize, Ignore, Eject. I don't want to mess around with anything until I know what's wrong and what I should do. I've tried putting my flash drive into PCs, but it's still unreadable. I always remove my devices safely so I'm not sure what the problem is. The flash drive is in excellent condition. Maybe if anyone knows how to talk me through the Initialize option, that'd be helpful, cause frankly, I don't know much about softwares and such.
I've heard of people sending out there flash drives and getting them fixed. Is this an options? I'd only do it if it was guaranteed to work without losing any files. Is there anyway I can troubleshoot it at home and fix this?
I will be checking this post often to reply to any questions or answers. It's urgent that I access my flash drive!

Initializing it will format it and you will definitely lose everything if it isn't lost already.
Not being readable on either a PC or Mac is a bad sign.
It may be worth taking it into MicroCenter and see if they have any ideas. Most recovery services are rather expensive and Google is your friend in finding such a service.

USB Flash Drive Issues

I just bought a USB Flash Drive(1GB)to back up my purchased music from my iTunes music library and I have no idea how to do it...Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Take a seat this could be a while. First right click on the start menu. click on explore. Navigate to My Documents>My Music There should be a folder called iTunes. Then inside of iTunes there should be a folder called iTunes Music. Iside are all of the different music folders arranged by artist. There is all your iTunes music. Select all the music that you want to back up. To select multiple songs, use the Ctrl of Shift keys. Once you have selected all the music you wish to copy. on you keyboard press and hold [Crtl]+C, this copies all the music. Now navigate to your flash drive. It should be in the E or F drives. Double click on it. Now on your keyboard press and hold [Ctrl]+V. This should put all of the music you previously copied into the flash drive. This should work. If you have any problems reply to this post. hope this helps.
btw welcome to the forums

Encrypted flash drive issues.

I have a PNY flash drive that I encrypted in OSX, and now the password I set does not work. Can anyone help me out or give me advice? Thanks in advance.

reformat it in Mac OSX extended journaled
some flash drives are not Mac compatible.

6910P bios recover usb flash drive issue

hello I have a 6910P, that got messed up when I upgraded the memory to 4gb, its was running fine, then I plugged my wall charger in, and it stated your charger is not the right power
or something to that effect, then it shut down.
I have read a few threads, that stated it was a bios issue,
but the issue is that I cant get into the bios to upgrade it, and or reset the settings
i have removed the cmos battery
I have also tried this
Just so nobody else has to go through this hell I finally got it working fo me on my HP G60-235DX.
I downloaded the latest Bios (360BF65.FD)
Made two copies and renamed them to 3612.FD and 3612.BIN (Not sure which is exactly right)
Copied that to a small (256MB) SD Card (Any 2Gig and below would probably work)
Placed the SD in the laptop
Removed Battery and AC from the laptop
Pressed and held both WIN and B Key
Inserted AC, waited 4 seconds and pressed power, released WIN+B right after pressing power.
Give it a minute and it will start to beep very annoyingly, nothing will be on screen.
It powers down when its done and that's it.
my machine refuses to boot to the bios, I only have a 4Gb usb drive formatted to FAT, is this drive just too large or something?
also I know the unit still works as the cpu fans turns on as soon as I insert the battery, and the hd light on the front is also on. the cpu fan just stays, and then turns off... over and over again.
I also bought a brand new oem hp charger, and also put back the original 1GB ram stick
is my motherboard toast, or do I need to find a super small flash drive, or buy the darn usb floppy drive
thanks for any help

Looks like some high quality brand
google link
edit: bullshit, this seems to have nothing to do with the brand I guess...
Last edited by hokasch (2010-05-10 17:51:36)

Flash drive issue

When I plug my flash drive into my mac book pro it doesnt show on the desktop. Can anyone advise?

Do you have your Finder prefs set up like this?
CLinton

USB flash drive issue with photoshop.

For some reason when i try to save .psd files from photoshop CS3 to my usb flash drive I always get The disk is full error, even when the disk is empty. I try to save to the disk, and I can save to the desktop but cannot drag and drop it in. It's a 1 gig flash drive.

Hi Skwertz: Have you tried plugging in the USB Flash drive and emptying the trash? Just be sure that the items in the trash are really meant to be thrown out.
Good Luck
Stedman

USB Flash Drive Issue

I hope this is the right section to post in, if not can the moderator please move it accordingly.
I have a USB hard drive which I use for Time Machine without a problem, but I also have a USB flash drive. Since I have used it with my Mac I have not been able to recognize it on PC's. Not that I want to use any PC's, but at school I need them for printing.
Is there any settings I need to change or programs I need to download to make sure my USB drive will be Mac & PC compatible? Do I need to do a format or something?
Thanks.

Hello,
or you format your Harddrive (USB / HDD) in Windows with the NTFS-Format (it is for bigger files) an install on Mac the programm "MacFuse". With this tool your Mac read the NTFS-Format. Also no problems with your PC and Mac.
But i dont know a answer for the rights bug.
Nice greets

Z87 MPOWER MAX driver issue help

My spec:
Intel Core i7 4770K
MSI Z87 MPower Max
Samsung SSD 840 Pro Series 256GB
Crucial Ballistix Tactical 32GB 1600Mhz cl8 Quad KIT - 1.50V
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 4GB WindForce 3X OC
I got windows 7 ultimate and nothing else.I succesfuly installed all the drivers exept this ones(the warnings i get are in the description):
Intel Wireless Display - This platform is not compatible with Intel WiDi or
the application is in use.Please see the log for more details.
intel_rst - This computer does not meet the minimum requirements
for installing the software.
intel_vga_mb - This computer does not meet the minimum requirements
for installing the software.
What didi i miss ? Thank you for help.

You need to turn on the Intel graphics hardware in BIOS.

USB flash drive not being recognized as a startup disk?

Hi everyone, I've been searching for similar questions but haven't found one that exactly matches my experience. So, I'm going to try and explain my issue in hopes that others may be able to help.
I'm trying to create a bootable flash drive from which I can install lion, and eventually Mountain Lion when it is released onto my main hard drive. My main reason for doing this is to have a way that I can perform a clean install of the operating system. Yes, I know I am old fashioned, but sometimes I prefer clean operating system installs rather than upgrading. In any case, I have downloaded the lion setup file from the Mac app store (Install Mac OS X Lion.app) and am following the directions given on this page to do this procedure. These directions are consistent with directions found on various other sources online. Having this file saved to my hard drive, I was able to find and extract the disk image file from the package InstallESD.dmg to another folder. Once extracted, I plugged in my flash drive and attempted to use disk utility to restore the disk image to my flash drive. I selected the dmg file as my source and the flash drive as the destination. I then clicked restore and was warned that all data on the flash drive would be erased while the disk image was restored to my flash drive. I was prepared for this, so I allowed the process to continue, and it appeared to proceed with no problem. When disk utility was finished, I did a quick look at my flash drive using finder and confirmed that it did in fact appear to contain a disk image of the .dmg file. Here's where things get interesting however.
When I go to system preferences and choose startup disk, my flash drive is not listed as an optional disk from which to boot, only my hard drive ("macintosh HD"). When I restart and hold down the option key, my flash drive is not listed as a startup disk either. I know that the non-intel based macs are not capable of booting from USB, but this is certainly not my issue as I have an intel macbook pro, mid 2009 model. My flash drive is about 4 or 5 years old; it is a PNY Technologies Attaché 16 gb flash drive. I have no trouble viewing and transferring files to and from the flash drive, the only issue is that my computer seems to refuse to recognize it as a startup disk. Are there certain flash drives which do not support booting? This would normally seem more like a computer issue rather than a flash drive issue, but most people seem to have no problem doing what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately I do not have another flash drive with which to test this, and I didn't really feel like buying another flash drive just to test this out if in fact this is not a flash drive issue. I am planning to upgrade to the macbook pro retina soon which of course does not have an optical drive, which is one of the reasons I would like to get this working. Can anyone think of something else I can try? Is it more likely an issue with the macbook pro or the flash drive?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

The format says Mac OS Extended. All of the settings were set during the disk image restore process. Even if I format the flash drive as extended journaled or some other format, all of these settings are reverted when I do the restore from the disk image. I will just copy all of the information that disk utility has so that you can see it.
Mount Point : /Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD Capacity : 16.11 GB (16,106,110,976 Bytes) Format : Mac OS Extended Available : 12.3 GB (12,303,499,264 Bytes) Owners Enabled : Yes Used : 3.8 GB (3,802,611,712 Bytes) Number of Folders : 128 Number of Files : 876

USB flash drive with G4, OS9.2

Just bought a 256Mb USB flash drive to help friend move data from old iMac to new core duo (lucky s*d). tried it first at home - works Ok on my eMac (10.4), but when plug it into my G4 (OS9.2), get the old 'this disc is unreadable, do you wish to initialise?) message (that takes me back a few years!). Should I format it? If so maybe it won't then work with my eMac. I think OS9 has a USB mass storage driver somewhere, but can't find it. Maybe that is the reason why G4 doesn't recognise the flash drive.
Any suggestions would be most welcome

Hi, John -
This User Tip (by Joerg Weiss) may help -
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121944
Although that tip is directed towards other USB storage devices, the included list of needed extensions and their versions may also apply to your situation.

Flash drive only "pretends" to eject - help!

I am trying to transfer data from a Power Mac G5 running OS 10.3.9 to a 4 GB USB flash drive. After finishing the copying procedures, I attempt to eject the drive by dragging it to the trash bin, clicking the eject button within a finder window, or using the "eject" option from a pull-down menu, etc. The drive icon disappears from my desktop, but somehow it has not "finished" ejecting, for when I pull out the drive, I get the error message about not having ejected properly. I've tried this multiple times, even waiting for several hours for the ejection process to "finish," and each time have ended up with at least 1/2 my files on the flash drive being corrupted and useless.
I have a large amount of data to transfer, since I'm trying to get it transferred from an old work/school computer to a personal computer at my new workplace. Thus, for efficiency's sake I cannot spend days/weeks transferring these data in smaller bits and it's not worth trying to go through the hundreds of different files to check each and every one to see if it's been corrupted!
Any suggestions? Thank you!!

Thanks for your help so far, BDAqua, Squirrel2 and Japamac.
The only Mac I'm working with is actually this one here at school - the other computers at home and my new workplace are PCs running Windows XP and 7, so I guess reformatting the flash drive in HFS+ is out. The ultimate place I'd like to get the data stored is an external hard drive, but it of course has an NTFS filesystem, which a Mac can't write to... and the work-around I found (NTFS-3G for Mac OS X plus MacFuse) only works with 10.4 and up.
When copying using the flash drive, I've always been connecting it to the direct ports on the towers (whether the G5 or my PC)
We can't upgrade the OS due to software incompatibility/price issues, so I'm kind of stuck with it - argh! To add to that, I'm wary of running troubleshooting or drive maintenance on the G5 right now since it contains data and programs belonging to a number of other people, and it's not feasible just now to run the risk of letting it go out of commission, even for a day (it's thesis-writing season!). That said, I'd be willing to bet a good bit of money that the G5's hard drive is not in "good health," so I'm just going to try burning my data to a DVD so I can be done with this machine once and for all! I've had some issues in the past with writing DVDs on this G5, but it appears to be my last chance unless I'm willing to wait a while.
A friend of mine suggested using Dropbox, which I was very gleeful about until finding out that Dropbox only works on 10.4 and up, as well!
Anyway, thanks again for all of your help and suggestions!

I have an MS word doc saved from a Macbook in my flash drive. Now i want to print this from an IBM compatible laptop. problem is -- I can't access the file. Please help.

I have an MS word doc saved from a Macbook Pro on m flash drive. Now i want to print
th same doc from an IBM Compatible laptop. Problem is, I can't access the file. Please help.

I suggest you post your question on Microsofts own forums for their Mac products as it's their software you're having issues with:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac

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