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Feb 20, 2015 - Forget the whole 'Mac or PC' thing. Your household does both. Sharing a Hard/Flash Drive across Windows, OS X, and Linux with UDF. Forget the whole “Mac. UDF is a truly universal file system. It can be used on all.
I got this new flash drive. It's a generic brand. The first thing I did was plugged it into my Mac OS Leopard, saved a few files, and renamed the drive.
However, when I plug it into a PC, essentiallly any version of Windows, it won't show up. On Windows XP, it'll try to recognize it when I first put it into the port, then it'll say that it failed to recognize it.
After that, it just won't bother with it anymore. On Windows 7 Ultimate, it does nothing. Haven't tried Vista. I thought that it was a problem with the Windows OS, so I tried looking for the drive in Disk Management.
It just doesn't show up at all, anywhere. Plugging it into a Windows is like doing nothing. It works perfectly fine on Mac, it reads, writes, copies, everything. So I reformatted the drive with Disk Utility using FAT32, even partitioned it, all MS-DOS (FAT). I actually did this several times and tried plugging it into both the XP and 7, but still nothing happens. I just don't understand what could possibly be wrong with it.
I saw reviews on it and every single person says they have had no problem with it on their PC. One even said it works just fine between PC and Mac.
Is mine just defective or is there something I haven't done? Hi flashdriveruser, - Do the other USB devices work fine on your computer? I’d suggest you to disable and re-enable all the USB controllers. This lets the controllers recover the USB port from its unresponsive condition. The USB controllers represent the USB ports in Device Manager. To disable and re-enable the USB controllers, follow these steps: a.
Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers. Note You might have to scroll down the list to find this item. Right-click the first USB controller under Universal Serial Bus controllers, and then click Uninstall to remove it.
Repeat the above step for each USB controller that is listed under Universal Serial Bus controllers. Restart the computer. After the computer starts, Windows will automatically scan for hardware changes and reinstall all the USB controllers that you uninstalled. If the issue does not get fixed, I’d suggest you to get in touch with the reseller/retailer for a replacement.