USB Flash drive

gledhill4911 · Oct 4, 2006

I have an old 128MB USB flash drive which was working fine until the other day. Its a PQI traveling disc.
when its inserted into a USB port a program called PassManX MFC starts, this is a password program. I put in my password and gain access to the drive.
Now when I do that I get a message saying "Hint not found"
Think it could be something to do with the computer as it works fine in all the others i've tried it in. Anyone help?

IH8GWB · Oct 4, 2006

is there a way to delete the program with out getting rid of you files?

if not do what i do i have a ASTONE 2GB 80X flash

& i back it up to DVD-RW each week

TimW · Oct 4, 2006

Move the files off the flash drive ...reformat it and move them back (without the program). If you are concerned ...encrypt the files, but be sure you don't lose the encryption key or its toast.

bigbazza · Oct 5, 2006

I'd take the opportunity to make sure that your flash drive is formatted to NTFS, if your hard drive is formatted to NTFS ( of course).
Most flash drives come formatted as some version of FAT.
I've yet to see a store bought one that comes formatted as NTFS.

Check out MG thread 98553 for Halo's advice on how to do it. Thanks again, Halo.
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=98553 Bazza

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