Problem with new flash drive

[thx1138xxix@yahoo.com]

Hello,

I hope someone could help me with a problem I've been having.

I received an early Christmas present today, a 2GB flash drive. It
came with no software and the instructions said it was Plug & Play.

So, I plugged it into my computer's usb port (running Windows XP) and
it was recognized. Everything seemed to work just fine.. I dropped a
few files into it and everything seemed perfect. Until I tried to use
the files I put on it. For instance.. I put a few zip files onto the
flash drive, then when I tried to open them.. it said the files were
corrupted. It doesn't seem to happen to all the zip files I put on the
flash drive.. just a few.

I checked the zip files before I put them on the flash drive and they
were fine.

Does anyone know what could be wrong?

Any replies would be greatly appreciated

 

[Elmo]

thx1138xxix@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope someone could help me with a problem I've been having.
>
> I received an early Christmas present today, a 2GB flash drive. It
> came with no software and the instructions said it was Plug & Play.
>
> So, I plugged it into my computer's usb port (running Windows XP) and
> it was recognized. Everything seemed to work just fine.. I dropped a
> few files into it and everything seemed perfect. Until I tried to use
> the files I put on it. For instance.. I put a few zip files onto the
> flash drive, then when I tried to open them.. it said the files were
> corrupted. It doesn't seem to happen to all the zip files I put on the
> flash drive.. just a few.
>
> I checked the zip files before I put them on the flash drive and they
> were fine.
>
> Does anyone know what could be wrong?
>
> Any replies would be greatly appreciated

The flash drive may be bad.. it certainly reads like that's the problem.
But try opening the same files on another computer and see what happens.

--
Joe =o)

 

[thx1138xxix@yahoo.com]

Hi Joe

Thank you so much for the reply!

The problem I'm having is really bizarre.

I'll plug in the flash drive and drop a zip file in it. I'll click the
zip file, and it opens and shows the contents just fine.

Then, I'll unplug the flash drive.. and plug it back in. I'll click on
the same file and get this prompt..

"Please insert the last disk of the Mult-Volume set and click OK to
continue"

Well I click "OK" and nothing happens.. I click "CANCEL" and the
prompt disappears.

I tried dragging and dropping the zip file from the flash drive to a
folder on my computer, but when I tried to open it.. I got a prompt
saying it was corrupt.

Is there a problem with using zip files on flash drives?






On Dec 23, 8:09 pm, Elmo <elmog...@iglou.invalid> wrote:

> The flash drive may be bad.. it certainly reads like that's the problem.
>   But try opening the same files on another computer and see what happens.
>
> --
> Joe   =o)- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

 

[Elmo]

thx1138xxix@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi Joe
>
> Thank you so much for the reply!
>
> The problem I'm having is really bizarre.
>
> I'll plug in the flash drive and drop a zip file in it. I'll click the
> zip file, and it opens and shows the contents just fine.
>
> Then, I'll unplug the flash drive.. and plug it back in. I'll click on
> the same file and get this prompt..
>
> "Please insert the last disk of the Mult-Volume set and click OK to
> continue"
>
> Well I click "OK" and nothing happens.. I click "CANCEL" and the
> prompt disappears.
>
> I tried dragging and dropping the zip file from the flash drive to a
> folder on my computer, but when I tried to open it.. I got a prompt
> saying it was corrupt.
>
> Is there a problem with using zip files on flash drives?

There shouldn't be a problem.. a .zip file is just another collection of
data with an extension describing what program should open it. Did you
copy the .zip file from the hard drive, or write it from within a .zip
program? In the latter case, I could see it possibly writing to the
external drive, and somehow marking it as a multi-disk write, which is
an option with .zip files.. In that case, you can turn off that option
within the zip program; that might help.

> On Dec 23, 8:09 pm, Elmo <elmog...@iglou.invalid> wrote:
>
>> The flash drive may be bad.. it certainly reads like that's the problem.
>> But try opening the same files on another computer and see what happens.

--
Joe =o)

 

[thx1138xxix@yahoo.com]

On Dec 24, 12:45 pm, Elmo <elmog...@iglou.invalid> wrote:

> There shouldn't be a problem.. a .zip file is just another collection of
> data with an extension describing what program should open it.  Did you
> copy the .zip file from the hard drive, or write it from within a .zip
> program?  In the latter case, I could see it possibly writing to the
> external drive, and somehow marking it as a multi-disk write, which is
> an option with .zip files..  In that case, you can turn off that option
> within the zip program; that might help.


The only files I used in the flash drive were zips, so I assumed the
problem was with zip files.

But then I tried other files like jpegs, texts and executables and
found that they too get corrupted.

I reformatted the flash drive trying both the FAT and FAT332 file
systems.. and the same exact thing happens.

I'll put the files in the flash drive, and they'll seem fine. Then
I'll unplug the drive and plug it back in.. and some of the files are
corrupted.

I can't understand what I could be doing wrong.. I have an mp3 player
which doubles as a flash drive and I use it the same way with no
problems.