Flash drive = 'removable disk'..?

Charlton_King

Help!

Am totally new to flash drives and need to download some photos from my PC to take for developing.

When I insert my newly bought toy, I get an 'AutoPlay' icon in my tool tray which, when clicked, brings up a box titled 'Removable Disk (J)'.

Surely this can't be right..?

ShaunJUK

Nothing wrong with that, it is after all a removable drive, just put your pics on it and take them to the store

malebolge

Don;t worry - windows sees a flash drive as a removable disc by default. It's totally ok

Charlton_King

ShaunJUK wrote: »

Nothing wrong with that, it is after all a removable drive, just put your pics on it and take them to the store

Ok, sounds easy.

When I click on 'send to removable disk', I get the message 'are you sure you wish to send the file without its properties? The file has properties which cannot be copied to the new location.'

What now?

cit_k

Just click ok, yes you are sure, and let it copy the file.

System

Charlton_King wrote: »

Ok, sounds easy. When I click on 'send to removable disk', I get the message 'are you sure you wish to send the file without its properties? The file has properties which cannot be copied to the new location.' What now?

This just means that (normally) you are copying from an NTFS formatted drive to a FAT/FAT32 drive. The properties that can not be copied are the access control list for the file which isn't needed on FAT/FAT32 (mainly because there is no access control)