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[PapauZ Norton Fighter]

Hi Guys,

maybe somebody had the same experience, and has a solution for this:

I have an 8GB Kingston DataTraveler pendrive. In the other machine (with XP) it works fine, but on mine (Win7 Home Premium 64-bit) it behaves very strange. When I want to copy anything to it, copying data to it is very very slow, and most of the times the drive just disappears during the copy (eg. after ~1MB from a file that is 700MB large). I can say that I simply can not copy files under 1-500Kbytes to it. It is really frustrating as other pendrives (other Kingston ones too - that is 1GB) work fine...

Here's what I tried to fix it:
- Format it (on mine, and on other machines too; quick and full format)

- Run Checkdisk with advanced options (full scan and fixing sectors)

- Remove, then reinstall the driver

- Change the Policies to Fast writing from the default quick removal

- Scan with Malwarebytes if Norton did not got anything, but everything is clean

If you have any idea, let me know please.

Thanks

PapauZ

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

Check with Kingston -- it may be a  known fault and they have a lifetime warranty ... at least they do on RAM so I imagine they do on thumbdrives too.

http://www.kingston.com/support/USBFLASHDRIVES/default.asp 

But I think you are in Hungary?  http://www.kingston.com/huroot/ 

If not click on Global Sites at the top of a site and go from there?

[PapauZ Norton Fighter]

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huwyngr wrote:

Check with Kingston -- it may be a  known fault and they have a lifetime warranty ... at least they do on RAM so I imagine they do on thumbdrives too.

http://www.kingston.com/support/USBFLASHDRIVES/default.asp 

But I think you are in Hungary?  http://www.kingston.com/huroot/ 

If not click on Global Sites at the top of a site and go from there?

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Thanks for the links. :) I unfortunately found nothing on their site... :(

But I send them a mail via their support system, and the confirmation mail said it can take about 3-4 workdays until they read it....

So if you have any other idea, please let me know. ;) :D

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

Does the pendirve need a 64 bit driver or something?

WIth it plugged in do you see any flags in Device Manager?

Apart from that I suggest you ask my colleagues over in the Compuserve WIndows 7 Support Forum  since I have a suspicion I've seen something there.

And on Compuserve the PCHardware Forum has some good knowledge on storage devices. Try the Hard Drive section.