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USB Flash Drives

Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drives are currently the most common form of portable data storage device. Questions about USB drives belong here.

1,651 Questions

Can I save you tube videos to my hard drive?

Yes follow these instructions:

(This is a very simple thing actually)

1. Find the video on youtube and copy the URL

2. Open up vixy.net

3. Select the type of format of the file

4. Paste the URL into the yellow bar and press start

5. it will then resolve the video and it then downloads it

6. Play the video

7. There you go

How do you save your work on a USB?

* First, you plug in the usb hard drive. * The AutoPlay (I don't know what it's called but that's what it's called) should appear. * Then click on Open Folder to view files using Windows Explorer * After that, something else will appear. It should say USB DISK (F:) (I suggest that you make this smaller) * Then right click on Start (at the bottom right corner). Right click, not left click. * Next, click on Explore. * The Start Menu will appear. * Let's say you want to save a document. Click on Documents.

* You may have to put the USB DISK (F:) and the Start menu on opposite sides. * Now all you have to do is drag and drop the document to the USB DISK (F:). And you're all done! It's that easy! YAY!!!!!!

Is a thumb drive a input device?

A Flash Drive can be an input, output or storage device.

Hope this helps.

How do you unlock the usb flash drive?

The problem here is unable to copy files into USB drive such as flash drives, memory card and Ipod. When your USB flash drive, or memory card is write-protected, you will receive the following error message:

  • Cannot copy files and folders, drive is write protected
  • Cannot format the drive, drive is write protected
  • The disk is write protected
  • Remove write protection or use another disk
  • Media is write protected

This may caused by virus or malware script which modified

the registry to make any drive write protect when connected to the computer, You can remove write protection from your usb flash drive or memory card using the below method:

1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press Enter, this will open

the registry editor.

2. Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

Note: If

the registry key StorageDevicePolicies does not exist, you will need to create it manually.

3. Double click the key WriteProtect in the right window and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button

4. Restart your computer and try copying files into your USB drives.

Why is a pendrive so called?

because the first pen drive was made like a pen

How can you create a bootable pendrive?

To make your flash drive boot windows XP simply install windows to your flash drive to do this insert flash drive into USB port on PC or laptop. Insert windows operating disc and install to said drive for where you inserted the flash drive. Once the install is complete remove the flash drive and turn off PC or laptop insert flash drive and boot PC or laptop and go to your Bios and change the boot sequence to the flash drive well it worked for me

Is flash memory volatile?

USb Drives based on flash memory and other flash memory are not volatile.

Volatile means erases or looses memory when shut off or disconnected.

How many usb port on dell vostro 1014?

There is no minimum or required number for USB ports on a laptop. Depending on the age and design of the laptop, it could be anywhere from zero to ten.

I have seen only 2 USB ports on older laptops, most of the new ones atleast have 4 USB ports. Netbooks(10" & 11") have not more than 2 USB ports. If in anycase you need more USB ports, you could buy an USB hub for as less as 10$, which will add 4 more ports to your laptop.

What is the largest USB flash drive available?

There is actually a 64GB BUSlink pro 2 usb stick. It is rather larger than other models but can easily fit on a keychain. But unless you have $5000 lying around its a waste of money (next year it will be like $150 -$200)

What size of usb flash drives are there?

It depends on what you're going to use the flash drive for, but on standard a flash drive should be at least 1gb or 2gb.

How can you partition a flash drive?

Why would you partition a flash drive? But anyway, make sure the drive is connected through the PC USB and open up run(start>run)

Okay, this depends what windows, etc, you're using. I'll assume XP and not Vista because I'm biased towards Vista:

run > type in compmgmt.msc > click okay > on the list says 'disc management' and you partition it there.

That WILL NOT WORK, because you cannot modify removable media in disk management. You need to download Lexar BootIt before you can do so.

How do you eject a flashdrive from the computer?

Click on the bottom toolbar of the computer. Click on the icon on the right side of the toolbar that says "Safely Remove Hardware". Left-click on the icon to remove the USB that you are using if you are confident that that is the USB you want to eject. Right-click on the icon if you are not sure and would like to see the details of it before ejecting it. Wait for the message that instructs you to eject before removing it. Another way would be to shut down your computer before removing the USB drive. DO NOT plug it out without doing the above instructions, as this might lead to loss of information and damage the USB drive.

How do you look up how many bytes do you have in a flash drive?

By clicking on the "computer" button on your start list, then find the name of your flash drive, then click on it.

Where do you plug in USB speaker?

A usb flash drive plugs in to the USB ports located on the sides of laptops (most commonly) or in the font or back of deskops (most commonly).
Hello im glad you asked because i will be able to help you. Alright you plug it into the usb port. Incase you dont know what that looks like here is a picture that shows you http://www.shivaranjan.com/shivaupload/windowslivewriter/10WaystoNetworkTwoComputers_11F65/USBPort.jpg Hope this helped :)

How do you delete files from hard drive?

The simple way is to drag and drop a file into 'Recycling Bin' on your desktop, and then empty it by right-clicking, and selecting 'Delete'. You can also right-click on the file, choose 'Delete'. IT exports suggest using free tools like 'Eraser' to securely clean material from a hard drive so it is permanently gone.

How much info does 3 MB flash drive hold?

3 Megabytes? Not very much in today's data rich world. Most songs won't fit on 3 Meg. You might be able to get a dozen or so pictures, depending on the resolution. That is a only a little more than 2 of the old 3 1/2 inch floppy disks could hold. You probably meant a 3 Gigabyte flash drive which is commonly available. Then you are talking a lot of stuff!

If you're talking about text then:

Roughly speaking one letter is one byte.

1K = 1024 bytes

1M = 1024 K

So you have 3145728 letters BUT spaces, commas, returns etc. also count as letters and formatting instructions such as font and letter size also take up room.

How do you put something on a USB drive?

USB connect it to your computer. After it installs itself, a new drive will appear in the My Computer window when you open it, under the Disks with removable storage heading with a letter like drive E or F or G etc and with it's assigned name(which you can change)

Can a 8GB flash drive hold over 300 pictures?

It depends on the quality of the pictures, but in short, yes it can - easily.

A picture from an iphone will be about 150kb so it could hold about 55,000.

A good quality picture will be about 1MB and even then, that will hold around 8,000.

Hope this helps

What are the advantages of internal storage?

An internal hard disk drive has its advantages and disadvantages. Here are the advantages: large storage capacity, stores and retrieves data much faster than a floppy disk or CD-ROM, data is not lost when you switch off the computer, usually fixed inside the computer so cannot get mislaid, cheap on a cost per megabyte compared to other storage media, hard disks can be replaced and upgraded as necessary, can have two hard disks in a machine, one can act as a mirror of the other and create a back up copy.

The advantages, on the other hand, are as follows: hard disks eventually fail which stops the computer from working, regular 'head' crashes can damage the surface of the disk, leading to loss of data in that sector, the disk is fixed inside the computer and cannot easily be transferred to another computer.

What is the capacity of a usb dirve?

A USB or a flash drive is a device that stores date off of a computer. Now drives can be bought that are just a few megabytes, and the biggest ones available now go up to a terabyte.

Disadvantages of a pen drive?

The biggest disadvantage is the same with any removable data storage, that it might get lost. But more than that pen drives have relatively small storage capacity. They hold out better against CD's because they are re-writable but still, in the end it actually depends on you, the purpose and if you prefer the portability of pen drives over other storage options, like an external hard drive. Or if you chose pen drives over cloud storage because you don't always have access to the internet

How do you turn off write protect on drive A?

Yes, it is possible to protect your hard drive using the lock command. E.g.

Lock sys: on - this will lock your partition Lock sys: off - this will unlock it.

If you wish to lock a drive other than your main partition simply substitute Sys: for the drive name.

I have a question for you: How do you turn ON write protection on your hard drive to begin with? As far as I know you can't. Hard drives were designed to be written on. You can't install an operating system on it without writing to the disk.

The only way to prevent someone from saving something would be through the operating system's security management. Before you can disable what you think is write protection, you need to understand what is protecting it to begin with.

Simple! Click Start Button > Type: Create and format hard disk partitions > Enter > Right click on your drive (the one that's write protected) > Click Offline > Right click again > Click Online. Voila! tnt4real!

Some hard drives have a jumper on them for write protect. You need to check the jumper settings

I just had this issue with one of my external hard drives. It's an internal drive that I installed into an external case and connects to my computer via FireWire. I knew it couldn't be a jumper setting, because the drive has not been removed from the case since it was put in there. I did NOT turn "ON" write protection at any time. I've been writing to this disc with no problems (daily) up until today. I tried copying a file to it, it popped up a message saying that can not write to disk, disk is write protected. I did nothing to cause this. No settings, attributes, etc. After looking around a bit with no luck (not even from here). I tried a couple of my own things. Found I could not change attributes (cause disk is write protected).

I finally unplugged the drive from the firewire port and waited a few minutes. Plugged it back in and let the computer "find" the drive again, and all is well.

The write protect is in your bios. You select "enable" write protect and it will ask you for a password. Note: not all bios versions offer this option.

I'm considering cleaning up my hard drive of all unwanted ware, especially spyware, and then turning on "write protect" for my hard drive to keep the stuff out. I'll be using a flash pen to surf with which can be cleaned much faster than a hard drive full of stuff and zillions of places for things to hide.

The post above said you turn on this feature in the bios. Can you elaborate on this as to how it's done? I have a Thinkpad r40 and can't seem to find anything on how to do it at ibm or google.

Thanks in advance...

I just had the same thing happen. Hard drive said write protected. Not even a floppy at boot would work. Then I realized when I hit delete for setup, both the hard drive and floppy were flipped to write protect in the bios.

I had the same thing happen to an old P III 800mhz computer; "write protected" message. After reading this I looked in CMOS for a setting for hard drive write protect, I have never heard of this as a bios option (floppy write protect yes, but not harddrive), did NOT find a setting for write protect for either floppy or hard, but I went ahead and did a reset CMOS to optimal setting anyway, booted and all was right with the world!

Thank you for the helpful info. I had tried everything, including fdisk/MBR, cloning to new hard drive, trying to do new install of OS on fresh drive... all failed, thought motherboard or IDE subsystem was hosed. Resetting CMOS WORKED.

If you download Windows SteadyState you have the option to limit who has access to what. You also have the option to lock your HDD. Everything you save will be undone the next time you boot. Here is the link to the download for you.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=d077a52d-93e9-4b02-bd95-9d770ccdb431&displaylang=en#QuickDetails

Just copy and paste that website into your browser. Also this is made by Microsoft and is free.