Vista is killing my flashdrives for xp!!!

FOX

sooooooooooo for a long time now ive been transfering files from my xp to my vista system i use for djing. There havent been any issues on this system till i put the drive in my buddies vista system now the flash drive wont work on my xp system anymore but it works fine on my vista system...

now that seems odd but at work the same thing is happening. I have killed 6 2gig drives. It sounds so stupid but i put something on it from an xp system went to my vista system got the file off and deleted it from the flash drive. Went back to the xp system i just used the drive it and it doesnt work anymore!!

wtf ...i looked online but i only found a couple others it seems to be happening to. Its so annoying now i have to burn cds to get my music on my vista system.

If anyone can help at all that would be great. I formatted all of them and they all boot on my vista system but not on any xp system in the house and we have four of those i tried them on... its incredibly weird!!

SpeedZone · Rated NC-17 Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Posts: 193

Hi!

Here is the link to some possible solutions when usb drive doesnt show up in xp anymore. Give them a try and let us know whether you managed to "fix" the drive (or fix XP's problems with usb drives - which i believe are causing all this). Good luck. Grin

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/fix-usb-drive-in-xp/

FOX · Posted: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:51:10 Post Subject:

yea i saw that but the drive doesnt even show up at all... the lights flash initially for about a second then..............nothing lol... the flash drive works for some reason now but none of the other memory cards i have seem to function yet... i can deal with that at least for now i just needed my flash drive for transferring my files everyday

mrweasel · Posted: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:43:13 Post Subject:

does it show up in Disk Manager? It may be a GPT/MBR issue

FOX · Posted: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:34:59 Post Subject:

doesnt show up in disk manager in xp at all... its just really weird bc they all work in vista but no xp system even if i format them

mrweasel · Posted: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:36:51 Post Subject:

go into DM on the Vista box and check to see if it's in GPT mode and not MBR mode....had a drive do that before

FOX · Posted: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:48:00 Post Subject:

i will check that thank you... w/o googling that whats the difference mean?

MadHacker · Posted: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:05:23 Post Subject:

MBR mode is (Master Boot Record) support 4 partions and limits partitions created to max of 2 GB each.

GPT is (GUID Partion Table) supports a lot more partitons 256 or more... not sure. and will support drive partions larger then 2TB, I have 1 that is 5TB and needed to do that.

is it posible to boot into dos and try fdisk to whipe the USB stick to get it to work?

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

That's another issue I've never run into. I am always giving my flash drives to people on both XP and Vista.

If you find a solution, please let us know. Save others time if they run into it Smile

sbrehm72255 · Posted: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:25:53 Post Subject:

I've never run into the problem either and I swap files between Vista and XP all the time with USB flash drives.