Ah, so it does still make sense.
Chuck Norcutt
Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> 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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