Even more amazing someone would buy it. I knew what I was getting in to,
but I only paid about $150 for the discontinued model. The additional memory
was only about $50, so it stll turned out to be a good deal.
Charlie
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hard to believe anyone would sell a Vista machine with 1/2 Gig.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> > I tried ReadyBoost with a really cheap Compaq Vista machine I bought for
> my
> > daughter (came with only .5G memory and was very slow). It did not work
> very
> > well. Ended up putting in 2 G of memory and it now runs like a blue
> streak.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Not having Windows Vista or Windows 7 I'd never heard of Windows
> >> ReadyBoost. But in looking up info on your specific flash drive I see
> >> comments that it supports ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost has the ability to use
> >> flash drives as memory cache while at the same time using part of the
> >> space as a stadard disk drive. A 16GB flash drive would normally be
> >> formatted as FAT32. However, using ReadyBoost requires that the drive
> >> be formatted as NTFS or exFAT in order to avoid the 4GB file size
> >> limitation of FAT32.
> >>
> >> Questions: Are you running Vista? Is it possible that Windows' query
> >> about formatting the drive is actually a request to reformat to NTFS or
> >> exFAT in order to support ReadyBoost?
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt
> >>
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> >>> I think you're in a state of denial. The indication is that the drive
> >>> has failed in some way. I find it difficult to believe it's the fault
> >>> of FastStone. FastStone (like other browsers) does write to a
> directory
> >>> even if you're only viewing it but all it does is create/update a
> >>> thumbs.db file in that directory. Going from application file write to
> >>> totally destroyed drive directory structure should be an impossible
> >>> thing without the complicity of a serious bug in the OS. That also
> >>> seems to me highly unlikely.
> >>>
> >>> You need to open that second drive to assure yourself that it's good.
> >>> If you're leery of FastStone use Explorer or even use a minimalist
> >>> approach. Start a command line window and type DIR d: where "d" is the
> >>> drive letter of the flash drive. If the second drive is OK (meaning
> you
> >>> see a list of files from the DIR command) then you want to copy that
> >>> data somewhere to form a second backup until you figure out what's
> going
> >>> on with the first drive.
> >>>
> >>> What you do about the first drive depends on whether you are able to
> >>> create a second backup from the second thumb drive. In any case I
> would
> >>> apply an image recovery program to the first drive just to see what's
> >> there.
> >>> Chuck Norcutt
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Brian Swale wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> As a temporary solution to my digital image storage problems, I took
> >> about
> >>>> half my E-1 images from my hard drive and placed them on an A-Data
> USB
> >>>> 2.0 Flash drive E704 - 16 GB.
> >>>>
> >>>> I possibly looked at them once using Windows Explorer after storage,
> to
> >>>> make sure they were there.
> >>>>
> >>>> Until a few nights ago when I looked at them also with FastStone Image
> >>>> Viewer.
> >>>>
> >>>> Now, Windows Explorer tells me that the drive is unformatted, and do I
> >> want
> >>>> to format it now? NOT. A friend's XP laptop tells me the same.
> >>>>
> >>>> Actually, I told a lie. I bought two of these Flash Drives, and made
> >> two
> >>>> backup copies of about 36 x 72 images (give or take 100%). As far as
> I
> >>>> know the 2nd backup drive is OK but I'm rather scared to open it.
> >> Certainly
> >>>> not with FastStone.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any comment / similar experiences with FastStone will be listened to
> >>>> seriously.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> Brian Swale.
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