USB Pen Drives

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Milo

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Hi all,

I've searched the forums and can't find any similar posts so here goes...

I've got three laptops at home and a load of USB pen drives which work fine. The laptops are two Dells (same models) and an Acer netbook all running WinXP Sp2.

All of the USB pen drives work fine between Dell laptop 1 and the netbook. But Dell laptop number 2 can't read the sticks if they've been formatted (with FAT32) by either Dell laptop 1 or the netbook.

In addition neither Dell laptop 1 or the netbook can read any of the USB pen drives if they've been formatted with FAT32 by dell laptop 2.

This is driving me a little nuts! Any ideas?
 
Milo said:
Hi all,

I've searched the forums and can't find any similar posts so here goes...

I've got three laptops at home and a load of USB pen drives which work fine. The laptops are two Dells (same models) and an Acer netbook all running WinXP Sp2.

All of the USB pen drives work fine between Dell laptop 1 and the netbook. But Dell laptop number 2 can't read the sticks if they've been formatted (with FAT32) by either Dell laptop 1 or the netbook.

In addition neither Dell laptop 1 or the netbook can read any of the USB pen drives if they've been formatted with FAT32 by dell laptop 2.

This is driving me a little nuts! Any ideas?
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why are you formatting them FAT32 ?

NTFS has far better for security & many other ways like FAT32 only supports a maximum file size of 4GB & do you let XP SP2 on the net ?
 
donkey42 said:
well maybe the problem is with the USB root hub, have you tried all USB ports that exist on the Dell lappy 1 ?

well thats your choice, but personally wouldn't let XP with only SP2 anywhere near the net
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Edit: have you tried any other port with a decent converter ?

BTW: by that i mean Firewire or Ethernet etc.etc.
 
Tried the USB ports on the dodgy lappy and still no progress.

You wouldn't let SP2 anywhere near the net? Can see why you'd say that, I probably shouldn't mention I purposely switch off firewall and AV periodically then? :chk: I'm a linux fan but WinXP is a required evil sometimes!

Cheers for the replies btw, much appreciated :)
 
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