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| Registered: March 27, 2007 | | Posts: 1 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have a new Vista(OS) laptop and when I try to back up my database onto a USB flash drive and put it on my desk top(XP) it will not recognize it as a removable storage source. |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Posts: 281 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is for restoring from a flash drive. Put the flash drive into the usb port. Then open the DVD Profiler program. Go to File, then restore, then click the browse button under the specific location, you should see the top say Look in:, bring up the drop down menu. What you should look for is the USB mass storage, click it and you should see the back up file. | | | | Last edited: by Dragon 6 |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Posts: 281 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is for backing up onto a flash drive. Go to file click on the back up tab, then click the browse button, then click the drop down menu for save in: Look for the USB flash drive, click it and save.
I keep a back-up file on my Laptop for ease of access but for safty reason I keep another back-up copy on a flash drive. | | | | Last edited: by Dragon 6 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting wildbilly49: Quote:
I have a new Vista(OS) laptop and when I try to back up my database onto a USB flash drive and put it on my desk top(XP) it will not recognize it as a removable storage source. I use the same USB stick on both vista and XP so I don't know whay yours wouldn't work. If its just a empty usb Stick does it appear within XP ok? It should be just a drive letter (and in the PC at work as a removable disk). It may be worth while for you to format the usb stick in XP and then see if both Pcs can see it ok. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,804 |
| | Posted: | | | | Maybe it's a drive letter conflict. Some usb sticks use a fix driveletter (e.g. "F"). when this driveletter is not available/occupied, you can't see the usb stick. You can change the driveletter this way: Click Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc
Right click > change drive letter
Alternative:
Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools. Double click Computer Management and then click Disk Management in the left hand column.
Procedure should be handled with care!
HTH | | | | Thorsten | | | | Last edited: by kahless |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 27 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kahless: Quote:
Maybe it's a drive letter conflict. Some usb sticks use a fix driveletter (e.g. "F"). when this driveletter is not available/occupied, you can't see the usb stick. You can change the driveletter this way: Click Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc
Right click > change drive letter
Alternative:
Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools. Double click Computer Management and then click Disk Management in the left hand column.
Procedure should be handled with care!
HTH If you have your computer running and then insert the flash drive, it should not try to grab an existing drive letter (verified in XP and Vista with about 7 different flash drives that are used constantly on several different computers). Usually should work that way even if the flash drive is inserted and then the computer is started, since the drive are enummerated one at a time. Have only seen that problem with SCSI drives and usually because both are jumpered to be device 0.You could have a problem with PATA drives with an incorrect mix of slave, master and/or cable select (have I told anyone how I hate hard-jumpered devices?). This is not to rule out kalhless' suggestion. Check in disk management, right click on My Computer or Computer (XP/Vista), select Manage then Disk Management to see your devices (alternate way to get there from what kahless describes). Insert/remove the flash drive to see if it shows up or disappears. I have not tried to backup directly to my flash drive, I preferr to backup to the hard drive and copy it to my flash drive. It may, indeed, be true that doing a backup directly to the flash drive is not supported. Hope this helps, let us know what you find out. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Halo2: Quote:
Quoting kahless:
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Maybe it's a drive letter conflict. Some usb sticks use a fix driveletter (e.g. "F"). when this driveletter is not available/occupied, you can't see the usb stick.
If you have your computer running and then insert the flash drive, it should not try to grab an existing drive letter (verified in XP and Vista with about 7 different flash drives that are used constantly on several different computers). Maybe it shouldn't BUT I know for a fact that all the PCs at my work will always try to grab 'F' for any USB stick (as kahless describes) and if the F drive is already taken the USB will not be visible. This is documented by our Computer Support team and verified by me as I did at one time use the 'F' drive letter as I was working on a project beginning with F and thought it would make sense! I believe it depends how the PC is set up and not just operating system dependent because at home the USB stick will grab any old letter and I'm using the same operating system (XP). | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 4,680 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kahless: Quote:
Some usb sticks use a fix driveletter (e.g. "F"). when this driveletter is not available/occupied, you can't see the usb stick. I have seen this too. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
Gunnar |
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| Registered: May 14, 2007 | | Posts: 455 |
| | Posted: | | | | In order for a USB to assign a drive letter, you must have power user or admin rights. |
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