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BANGKOK RED

« Reply #15 on: Saturday, July 3, 2010, 09:10:05 »

Part of me wishes that they would. It's doing my nut in.

Sometimes I seem to be able to delete an individual photo but it doesn't show in the recycling bin. They just seem to disappear as though they were never there in the first place.
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BANGKOK RED

« Reply #16 on: Saturday, July 3, 2010, 09:12:15 »

But when I take out the thumb drive and put it back in again, the photo's are back again.

I think it may be haunted.
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Don Rogers Shop

« Reply #17 on: Saturday, July 3, 2010, 09:19:39 »

Try this

1. Put in your USB stick
2. Right click "My Computer" and select "Manage"
3. Expand "Storage" and go to "Disk Management"
4. Right click your USB drive (i.e DISK X down the bottom) and select "Properties"
5. Select "Policies" tab and select "Optimise for Performance"
6. Click "Ok" to save.

But in the most likelihood, your drive has reached its write limit (i.e. broken)
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BANGKOK RED

« Reply #18 on: Saturday, July 3, 2010, 09:26:31 »

It's already selected, greyed out and I can't change anything.
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Don Rogers Shop

« Reply #19 on: Saturday, July 3, 2010, 09:31:25 »

Lots of geeky shit on this thread.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-18654-USB-Flash-Drive-Write-protection.html
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BANGKOK RED

« Reply #20 on: Saturday, July 3, 2010, 09:36:38 »

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I recently purchased a Kingston Datatraveler

Is what I have

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Kingston advised me that this sounded like faulty hardware

That settles it then.

Definitely haunted.
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