 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Windows Forum / Windows XP / Performance and Maintainance / September 2006USB Memory drive
When I insert USB memory drive into my HP a850y it asks that I copy the file to my hard rive for editing. My IBM think pad does not do this, adn allows editing right on the stick itself. What an id doing? This is realy a nuisance. Many thans for your feedback. MN Charnigo When you try to edit this file on your HP does it give you some type of error - This file is read only, etc.. Anyway if it says that you need to copy it to your hard drive for editing then this would seem like the case. Removing read only: Go to Start -> Run, type in cmd and hit enter. from there type ATTRIB -R /S /D X:\*.* where X is the USB drive letter. This will remove the read only attribute from all of the files on your USB drive. -Dan Dan - I get a message "File cannot be opened directly from this device. Please copy file to an open folder and open the copy". You solution did not work. I also tried severla utilities that change attributes and they did not work either. My IBM Thinkpad opens the files fine from the USB memory disk memory. Many thanks for you help. Any other ideas, or perhaps others can chime in here. MN Charnigo > When you try to edit this file on your HP does it give you some type of error > - This file is read only, etc.. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > -Dan OK, strange error - the only time I got an error that was anything like that error was when I was trying to copy a file from a Mac OSX system to my NTFS formatted USB hard drive. Apparently the Mac didn't like it too much. Getting back to the problem... Just a couple of questions to get a better idea of the problem: 1) What program is this file for (what is the file extension)? 2) Does this happen only with this file or every file on your drive (can you transfer files back and forth on the USB drive on your HP)? 3) Are you using the same operating system on both the HP and the IBM? 4) Are there any errors listed in Event Viewer that have to do with trying to open this file from your USB drive (go to Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer. Look under Application and System and note the Source with the Event #)? -Dan |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.