[SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question

[serross at ix.netcom.com]

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>On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:56 PM,  <serross> wrote:
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>>  Have you tried to contact the drive maker? I was having trouble with a USB drive and contacted the maker and they had a solution.
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>>  Stephen
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>What was the nature of the problem with the USB drive?  Was it a
>problem with the hard drive itself or the enclosure?  Was it a problem
>with the device driver or power supply, ie, it needed external power
>vs a powered USB port or what?  Was this on windoze or Linux?  What
>was the solution?
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>claude

It happened to be a 2 gb thumb drive that I was unable to use 1/3 of the space. I was using it on  MS OS.

Open a ticket withe the maker of the drive, it could be that they have some special stuff on the drive that when you did the format, it wiped it out.

Stephen