Top 10 Dane-Elec DaneElec 4GB USB Drive Copper Hard Drive Questions & Answers

How I got it to work in XP Pro:

1) Plugged USB Drive in and saw it saw hardware manager install it but didn't see new Drive Volume in My Computer

2) Opened Control Panel

3) Open System

4) Clicked Device Manager from Hardware Tab

5) Expanded Disk Drives

6) Right clicked USB Flash Memory USB Device and hit Properties

7) Clicked Volume Tab and hit the Populate Button. Voila!

HTH

There should be a little switch on your memory card reader, if it is facing down, your card is locked. Push it up and then you should be ready to go. :)

no it is supported on high speed or usb legacy 2.0
Go to bios setup and setr usb legacy 2.0 high speed
then save settigns

LLFTOOL is a utility for low-level disk drive formatting,
also supports formatting of FLASH cards using a card-reader.


1. Download this tool:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4040651/LLFTOOL.EXE

2. Format

(WARNING: After running this low level format tool,
the whole USB flash disk surface will be fully erased.
Therefore, data restoration will be impossible after using this utility!)

No zMate Pen driver is necessary to work out with Windows Millenium, Windows 2000, Windows XP and MAC OS 9.1 and more: they are plug and play.
but try this site:
http://www.dane-elec.fr/scripts/home/publigen/content/templates/TPL_ADV_INFO_C2_S4.asp?P=352&L=EN

Try it in another PC, if the same its a writeoff.

it's works on unknown capacity format problem


Requirements: A "corrupt" USB thumb/flash drive, and windows vista/7.


First of all, RESTART YOUR PC...(this is the only way it worked for me...hopefully it works the same for you)


1. Plug-in your USB flash drive to USB port.


2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open Command Prompt.


*Type cmd in Start menu*


3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in the command prompt:


>>> First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message. (this opens the disk-partition manager)


>>> Next type LIST DISK command and note down YOUR FLASH DRIVE'S Disk number (eg: Disk 1). BE CAREFUL NOT TO CHOOSE YOUR PRIMARY HARD-DRIVE.


4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is "Disk 1".If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step to confirm it.
So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one:


SELECT DISK 1


CLEAN


CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY


SELECT PARTITION 1


ASSIGN


FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few minutes)


EXIT


If you did everything exactly, then your USB drive should be goos as new.

You will have to be the computer administrator to change any values on a hard drive

click start control panel user accounts you should see a box with the administrator and the guest account if you have made one click on the administrator this may vary depending on which operating system you have

click start click to open on my computer you should see your hard drive usually C: right click select properties there will be an array of options select the security tab option then advanced make sure you have full control in windows 7

click start control panel user accounts click on the administrators account if you have made one or you will have to create one in windows XP

USB drives can be write-protected by modifying the StoreageDevicePolicies Registry key and WriteProtect Registry value.
click Start>run>regedit to open Registry Editor. and press control+F to open the find dialogue box and type "usb device" or "driverdesc" to open usb mass storage device or type "usb mass storage device" in the search windows. And right click on it and delete. This will set the policy value to 0. then insert your usb device. It will work fine.
# Remember: do not delete any unknow files in the registry as this will make some programes not work as usual.
also
If you are running a Windows XP OS then you might be able to:
- click start right click on my computer select open
- Right click the icon of your Flash Drive (It should be F:/ or something)
- Click Properties in the menu that comes up
- Click the Sharing tab
- Click permissions
- And finally, click Allow next to Full Control.
hope this helps

WHAT A PAIN IN THE A_S_S.
DID EVERYTHING DESCRIBED, & MORE,
& I'LL NEVER WASTE ANOTHER PENNY ON
ONE OF THESE F_U_C_K_I_N_G PIECE OF
S_H_I_T DANE-ELEC 8GB .
I'M GOING BACK TO TARGET STORE & JAMMING
THIS NIGHTMARE RIGHT UP THE STORE MANAGER'S
STUPID A_S_S .

if you are using windows as your operating system then follow these steps below
1.click on start 2.click on run and then write regedit or regedit32 in run window 3.next it will open a new window's which is Registry editor locate HkEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENT CONTROL SET\CONTROL 4. Locate sub key storage device policies and then locate Dword value Write protect for disabling write protection you have to set value to 0 if it's 1 there !!!!