I think you would press F2 or some other key to enter the BIOS, Satellite Toshiba press the right arrow during boot up. Normally there is a message on the monitor saying what to do. Once in the BIOS set the boot order to boot from the USB drive, if the OS is on that drive. Some versions of Linux will boot from the CD and do not have to be installed. This is a big help if the hard drive does not work of if you just want to boot from a different OS. Linux and Wndows applications are compatible for all I have seen.

I recently purchased a Toshiba external hard drive to move some stuff from my daughters tiny 20G HD on her Inspirion 2650. This is a USB 2 device, and I assumed the USB ports on the computer were also. I guess not. I got a message from XP saying the ports couldn't provide enough power to the device. I saw the drive had a socket for a DC power supply, so I plugged in the appropriate voltage wall wart. I immediately smelled burning circuitry, so I unplugged it. The USB ports smell like a burned electrical device and they no longer work when I plug in the USB mouse or a memory stick. I'm going to have to pull the MB and see if I can find a fuse to replace. Anyone done this?

You have burned the USB ports, and i doubt theres a fuse for this.you plugged the AC adapter in so it was getting its full voltage from that plus the extra voltage from your USB and you have fried the circuitry.

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Most flash drives are recognized as a removable drive, therefore can be addressed by virus software applications. Select the removable drive and run your scan.

2000 songs approximately

No. 2 Gb is 2048 Mb. 2Gb is four times the memory of 512Mb.

In the Utilities folder within the Applications folder you should find either (or both) a folder called Adobe Installers which will have uninstallers for any Adobe software you have installed or the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager which, when run, will provide an Uninstall button to remove the Flash player from your system.

In order to transfer a movie from a PC to a USB flash drive, you will need to attach the USB drive to your computer. Once you find the movie file on your PC, you will need to select the file and either paste or drag it to the USB drive.

I have just emailed Verbatim about the same issue with my 16GB device. All other solutions that I have found on the Internet have failed for months now. Keep in touch and if I find a solution (other than buying a new one) I will share the info!!!

Jeremy Keller

nynemout42@gmail.com

The OS (operating system) takes up space on the drive.

When you delete files from a removable media the data itself isn't deleted, just the file system pointers that says where the data for those files is located. The area where the deleted file data was stored is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead.

Flash memory storage devices that plug into USB ports are commonly referred to as USB thumb drives. USB thumb drives come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and capacities and are often used for transporting files from one computer to another.

It is also called, thumb drive, power drive, and pen drive.

Yes it can and I have done this that. I hate vruses.

The largest available SD cards are 32 GB. Stay tuned for more.

Yes they work quite well in cross domain environments. With capacities of up to 128Gb they offer huge potential for transportable and readily accessible storage. Life of memory on these devices is uncertain but I have seen some rated to 11 years which is good but not great.

>> some are cds, hard disk, floppy disc, flash drives

Short answer: No. They are different and not compatible.

Long answer: If the USB 2.0 device happens to be a hard drive that also has an esata port, then you could use the esata port instead.

Technically speaking there is no set limit, as technology grows - so will the size of a USB Flash drive. ------------ To my knowledge the most memory you can have on a USB flash drive is 256 GB.

i want to know the programming details about(how does flash memory store the data received) and the tracks that the date move in. it would be great if u could get some pics 4 that..... thanx a lot

It depends on how many gigabites it has like 8 gigabites can hold about 15 movies.

Best case scenario is that you erase the data on the usb drive. Worst case is that you ruin the drives ability to carry information.

A DVD is a disk that is coated in a layer of material, that material is physically changed using a lazer to make dents in the material. This represents the 1s and 0s by making into a dent or no dent.

A USB drive is a small stick that has billions of tiny cells that can be manipulated to allow electricity through or not. The computer can send some electricity to it in a way to either turn it on or off. Then it can read it by trying to send electricity through it.

If you mean by how much data they can store a DVD normally holds 4.5 GBs while a USB drive can normally hold up to 256GBs [although Victorinox has one with a capacity of 1TB (1024GB) ] Mostly depends on how much you want to pay.

USB drives can be more expensive but last much longer and you can change what is on them very easily compared to a DVD.

Additionally DVD is Digital Versatile Disk and USB is Universal Serial Bus.