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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.

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Where can one purchase an 8GB flash drive?

There are many places to purchase a 4gb pen drive, some of then are: Argos, Amazon, PC World, Currys, Wilkinson, Target, Sears, Walmart, Snap Deal, Best Buy, Tradus, Flip Kart, Rediff, Home Shop 18.

How do you remove write protect on usb TDK?

You can either remove write protect physically (if your USB drive is equipped with a write protection tab on the side that can be switched) or through your flash drive's registry. In the latter case, this link provides steps you can take within your registry editor to remove write protection: (See related links).

How do you remove write protection for transcend flash drive V10?

Use following link to download recover jetflash from transcend site.

http://www.transcend.nl/support/dlcenter/Software/JetFlash%20Recovery%20Tool.zip

note that the data on the pen drive will be erased. so back it up before you run it.

Is there a way to use a USB Flash Drive an iPad?

It actually is possible, you just need an iPad camera connection kit and bing!

Sadly, you can only import photos and videos. If you want to send files from your iPad to your computer, use an app like Skydrive or Dropbox.

How does an airplane work?

4 forces act on planes

Lift pulls the plane up

Gravity pulls it down

Thrust pushes it forward

Drag pulls it back

These 4 forces together help move the plane through the air and without these forces an airplane wouldn't fly

When an airplane takes off the thrust is thus increased and the plane can take off from the ground

How do you permanently delete files from computer?

My contacts in the military tell me they always use BCWipe to permanently delete files. Some even say that BCWipe is such a powerful and effective tool to completely wipe data, that they won't allow other staff to keep the software on their computer. For many years, I've relied on BCWipe to be 100% certain that my private data cannot be recovered. And it's actually very simple to install and start using in minutes.

http://www.jetico.com/wiping-bcwipe/

There's simply no better way to permanently delete files.

Left click to select the file, then just press the delete key. It is true that this doesn't remove the file from the hard drive, but it does take down the "fence" that protects it, so it can be overwritten. Make sure you empty the recycle bin afterwards - to do this, right click on the Recycle Bin icon, then select 'Empty Recycle Bin.'

Reformatting or a program like Window Washer, and several free programs similar to it, will make them inaccessible. There are several programs available that will overwrite those files multiple times, to ensure that they are not retrievable. Norton security suite has one, I think. There are others, some free.

Use HDCleaner, it will overwrite n-times any file so it won't be found even using recovery software, I've tried it and it really works, this is the solution for those of us leasing software; this app will erase the blank space in your hard drive, too. Yep, it's free. Good Luck!

There are many freeware software available to permanently delete files from Hard disk. These software follows one of many wiping schemes as explained in http://www.globinch.com and they mentioned SDelete from sysinternals as a free utility. The effectiveness of wiping programs depends on how many times (pass) it is overoverwritten.

Another one is "File Shredder".Advantage is it's right click context menu which makes it very convenient.

http://www.skipser.toolsbysk.com/p/2/p/how-to-securely-delete-files-permanently-from-your-computer.html

Are flash drives damaged by magnets?

I have (or had) 2 Flash drives, Imation 2GB and a Corsair 16GB. I accidently left them overnight lying next to an old magnet that had come out of a hard drive.

The next day the Imation works fine but the Corsair is a brick (albeit a very small one). not only have I lost all data but neither Win XP or Win 7 will recognise or find the drive. Had to send off to Corsair as it is still under warranty.

If I read any more rubbish about flash keys not being affected by magnets I'll shout very loudy in anger. The answer here is take care and do not leave with magnets since your gambleing with your data.

Can you put a windows 98 hard drive in a XP computer and use it as a second drive?

Yes, you can remove a hard drive from an older computer, place it in a new computer, and format it. Simply formatting it will leave it with no operating system, and thus useless in the Windows 98 computer. Installing Windows 98 to the drive from in your new computer may be difficult if your computer exceeds 512 MB of RAM, or if you use a SATA CD/DVD drive. Installing Windows XP to the drive might not work when placed back into the older computer if it doesn't meet XP's system requirements.

Can you copy music from a usb stick to a blank CD?

First you need to download and install an ISO creator such as MagicISO. Put in the cd, go to My Computer, right click the icon for whatever drive the CD is in (usually E:). When you right click on the CD drive icon, there should be an option called MagicISO, with an arrow next to it. Mouse over, than click "Make image file from E:". MagicISO will open and a box will show up; pick your file destination (in this case, your flash drive), and type in a name for the file, then click on "OK" or "burn".

My I-pod now shows as a unrecognised devise is it corrupted and if so is there a way to get data off it for free?

Nope. Apple's gay like that. DRM keeps Itunes as the only way to move songs through your Ipod. If your Ipod ain't getting recognized as the Ipod with your stuff on it, then Itunes will only let you delete everything and start over.

How do you format a memory card?

Many digital devices such as cameras that use memory cards will have an icon or other option selection to view contents of a memory card as well as to format the memory card. If a computer has a slot for the card, you can insert it and use an application to format the card. It is often available in explorer (windows) or nautilus (linux) by right clicking the memory card entry.

How do you delete files in a write protected usb flash disk?

To erase a thumb or flash drive, place it in a USB port. Find the drive in Windows Explorer. Right click on the drive in Explorer. A menu will drop down with Format being a choice. Click on Format and follow instructions.

Who made the first USB flash drive?

the first "pen" or "flash" drive was made in 1987.

Why pen drive shows 3.72 GB instead of 4 GB?

If you look at your properties of the pen drive it wil say:

4.001.333.248 bytes this equals 3,72 GB.

Can you delete pictures on your flash drive?

Yes if you have copied and thus created a backup on your flash drive it is safe to delete them off your computer, but I would recommend keeping them there so you have two copies of them in case something happens to on of the copies.

Can you write over a memory stick?

Yes, a USB stick is re-writeable. Unless the information is protected.

Examples of storage?

secondary storage , primary storage , temporary storage

How many movies can 16GB flash drive hold?

Answering, depending on Quality, Length, it Varies.

Traditional Quality Standard DVD-Rip AVI @ 700MB

1 GB = 1024 MB > 700MB DVD-Rip

16GB = 16384 MB

16,384 / 700 = 23.40571428571429

So the answer is 22 or 23 videos sized exactly of 700MB will fit.

Remember that even though it says 16GB, it's more like 14GB or 15GB due to format partitioning.

How long can a flash drive hold data?

It depends on how large the flash drive is, and how large the files are.

Take the size of the flash drive in GB, divide by the average size of the files in MB, and multiply by 1000.

So for example if you are storing photographs that are 2 MB in size on an 8 GB flash drive, you could store approximately 8 / 2 x 1000 = 4000 photos

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It also depends on the file structure in use. Most flash drives come pre-formatted with either FAT32 or exFAT - although most of them can be re-formatted to use other file structures. Both FAT32 and exFAT allow some flexibility in the size of the clusters used. Since storage is allocated by cluster - with enough clusters allocated to accommodate each file, the maximum number of files is also limited to the number of clusters.

As an example, theoretically if you had an 8 TB flash drive (wouldn't that be sweet) formatted with FAT32 using 32 KB clusters the maximum number of files would be 268,173,300. For smaller total capacity and/or larger cluster size, the number of files will diminish proportionately.

How do you remove write protection from your Kingston memory card?

when you put your micro scandisk into the adapter to put it into your computer or card reader you are probably pushing up the lock or hold key on the adapter you do not need to do that that is so you cannot deleat your content not to lock in the micro card hope this information has helped you good luck!!!!!!

Which company invented flash?

Flash was originally developed by FutureWave software and called FutureSplash Animator. The product was then sold to Macromedia corporation, who changed its name to Flash.