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Old Oct 9, 2004 | 10:02 pm
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BigLar
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Unhappy USB Flash Memory Sticks - Problems

I picked up one of these little gems a few months ago. It came with drivers for Win98, and Win2K has the drivers built in. I was intending to use it for transporting data, downloads, etc. from the Win2K machine at work to my home machine, and vice versa.

I've been having a devil of a time getting one machine to read stuff that was put there by the other machine. One of the techs told me that Win2K doesn't handle FAT32 well (!!!), or there may be formatting differences, be careful how you eject (can't just pull it out, it seems), etc.

Anyone else haveing problems with these things? I've even found that stuff loaded on one machine at work may not be readable by another machine, same OS. Both are USB 2.0, I'm 1.1 at home.

Any suggestions appreciated.
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