flash drive

Miss_Cinnabon

I got a new computer today and was given a usb 2.0 flash drive so i can store my photos/music from old computer then put them onto new computer.

I cant seem to get it working, the device manager says it is working properly, dont know how to get it up and running.

any ideas?

thanks

C_Ronaldo

kyle wrote: »

I got a new computer today and was given a usb 2.0 flash drive so i can store my photos/music from old computer then put them onto new computer.

I cant seem to get it working, the device manager says it is working properly, dont know how to get it up and running.

any ideas?

thanks

What happens when you plug the flash drive into your pc, whgen i plug mine in i get an option if i wnat to open the usb drive up play using windows media player and other options,

Miss_Cinnabon

nothing happens, when i first put it in it said found new hardware but thats all it has said, no messages etc

when i click it in my computer, all it takes me to is a blank page

C_Ronaldo

How many usb have you got on the front of you computer ?
Have you tried saving a document to the pen drive?
Is there other usb ports on the back of the pc

Miss_Cinnabon

none on front of computer, tried all the ports on the back and nothing, when i put in the flashdrive it flashes 5 times then stops, is it meant to do that?

C_Ronaldo

You mean the light on the pen drive flashes, well mine flashes more than 5 times, i think the light flashes as an indication that its plugged in, have you by any chany chance got another pen drive to test if its the usb port or the pen drive thats faulty

Miss_Cinnabon

no dont have another pen drive

thanks

C_Ronaldo

Either the pen drive is at fault or he usb port isnt working but i reckon its the pen drive, do you not have a neighbour you could ask to test you pen drive out

mdbarber

look in control panel/administrative tools/computer management/storage/disk management from there you should be able to see the drive and set up a partition on it to use it as a drive

globalds

kyle wrote: »

nothing happens, when i first put it in it said found new hardware but thats all it has said, no messages etc

when i click it in my computer, all it takes me to is a blank page

If you have no data saved onto the flash drive it will show an empty page .
get back onto that page and drag a file onto it ....see what happens .

deejayen

As said above your Flash Pen is essentially another HARD drive as seen by the OS you will have to Drag/Drop or Copy/Paste them to the new drive before you will see them -- Dave