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

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Maybe a fake drive which has a fraction of the promised
capacity only:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#fake


Uwe


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