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My VISTA laptop does not recognize my thumb drive.

Asked by DandyDear711 (1512points) September 9th, 2010

My VISTA laptop does not recognize my thumb drive. My VISTA desk top does and so does my LINUX (eeebuntu) netbook.

Why?

Is linux the problem?

Is there anything I can do to remedy this?

I have my quicken data on the thumb drive and I usually pay my bills on the laptop.

Thanks for your help.

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weeveeship's avatar

You need to have the drive’s “driver” software on your Vista. Try downloading it from the thumb drive manufacturer’s web site.

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DandyDear711's avatar

If it worked before and does not now, then the software must have been deleted. Yes?

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weeveeship's avatar

Possibly. Or corrupted.

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DandyDear711's avatar

So I should be able to use the same thumb drive on a VISTA system and a LINUX system. Right?

Can I do the same with a portable hard drive? Are there some out there (360 GB) without annoying software?

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Vincentt's avatar

Have you changed the filesystem perhaps? It might be that plain Vista does not support reading that particular one. Probably not though, unless you formatted it yourself. I can’t really imagine Linux being the problem.

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