Hi! but this would not currupt any files. It would not let you save such files though.
Maybe the anti-virus-spyware-spam software does do that? I never had such problems. Try to deactivate all your protecting software and copy again. hth Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: BILL TILLERY To: 'Andre' ; 'David' Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:11 PM Subject: RE: USB Flash drive, strange behavior As I understand the process, fat-32 has a maximum 4gb per file where as ntfs has little or no restriction up to the drive siz3e. HTH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Andre [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 10:00 AM To: 'David' Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: USB Flash drive, strange behavior I also have this experience with both a usb pin drive, and with an sdhc class 6 card. It seems to allow me to copy a few megs just fine, but anything after that is scrambled. This happens even though I reformat the drive, and reformat the sd card. I wouls also appreciate help on this issue. Much thanks, Andre From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:36 AM To: WE English mailing list Subject: OT: USB Flash drive, strange behavior OK, this is not a WE question, but I hope some tech guy, have an idea, what to do about it: I have a 16GB USB pen drive. It is formatted as FAT32, and I started out with it all newly formatted. 1. I copy a load of some 3GB onto the drive. 2. Then copied a second folder (approx 6gb) to the flash drive. 3. Then go to the SysTray, and selecting Safe Removal of hardware. 4. Choosing my usb drive, and clicking STOP. 5. Waiting for the message that the drive is safe to remove. 6. Unplug the drive, then reinserting it. All of this is fine. But, now comes the strange thing. All that I copied in the first load, shows up just fine. But everything I copied on the second load, has been totaly messed up. Filenames are randomly made up of all sorts of characters, what was files, shows up as folders, and none of it is readable, neither to me nor to the computer. I even tried this with the mobile installation of WE. The installation goes just fine. Then I make an AutoRun.inf, according to the KB articles from GW Micro. When reinserting my USB drive, all the WE stuff is fine, but the AutoRun.inf file, has been 'corrupted', and is now consisting of a lot of strange characters. I even have tried with another USB drive (4GB), and the same thing goes on. Running Xp PRO, and with all updates. Avast, and superAntiSpyware, reports my system to be clean. Am I doing something wrong? Or, is this a known issue on USB flash drives. I am copying the stuff from a NTFS formatted hard drive, but really don't see that this should make any trouble for the USB drive. 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