USB flash drive disappears when transferring or installing files from it

Hello,
Have a 1GB usb flash drive that works without incident on IBM and Dell laptops, however when trying to install or transfer files onto this HP Pavilion DV7 - Win 7 64bit laptop it will appear in Win Explorer for a few minutes and then disappear. When installing or transfering files things will be going as expected and then suddenly the light on the drive goes off and the laptop responds with "file cannot be found". When I open Win Explorer it shows the "F\:" drive but it appears to be empty.
I was able to get the software on the drive installed but I had to keep removing and reinserting the USB drive to get it to recognize it and then clicking on "Retry" on the "file cannot be found" error message.
I was intending on using a USB flash drive for a backup drive but not if this keeps happening.
I googled this issue, downloaded a supposed fix from MS to no avail. I've flashed the bios with the most recent version from the HP site here and also turned off power management of the USB ports in device manager.
Any other ideas?!?
Product number of the laptop is VM238UA

I also purchased an HP Pavilion dv7-3165dx recently and have had the exact same problem with a 16GB kingston datatraveler usb drive.
I've tried the "temporary workaround" on the MS website as well as their "quickfix", but nothing worked. Anyway, last summer I attended -- of all places -- a SIGGRAPH (signature graphics) conference in New Orleans and got a few freebies. One of them was a usb hub for 4 flash drives that plugged into a single usb port on my laptop.
Anyway, whenever I plug it in it gives me a message that says something about my flash drive being able to operate faster if I don't use this hub... BUT when I use the hub -- which obviously slows down data transfers too and from my flash drive -- I can transfer MUCH more data (several hundred MB's) before it quits on me!
I know there must be a better solution, but this works for me. If you can get your hands on a hub, it might work... good luck.

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