Purchased a 4 gb pny pen today but wont allow me to transfer files to pen.message reads cannot find the specified file. make sure you specify the correct path and file name.any ideas

Either scan your Pen Drive with a File/Sector Recovery Tool or Reformat the drive if you've got no files on it that you want to recover.

Try to download" Long Path Tool " is also useful in situations where you see these error messages: Cannot read from source file or disk, there has been a sharing violation, cannot delete file or folder, the file name you specified is not valid or too long, the source or destination file may be in use and many other file managing errors.

Can you "read" any files from the external disk-drive?
Can you "delete" any files/folders from the external disk-drive?
Can you click 'File' and 'New' and 'Folder' to create a new folder on the drive?

You plug it into a USB port on your computer. It should be plug and play, meaning it just works, unless it came with extra software you need to run, but I doubt that. Once it is plugged into your computer, a window may pop up asking how you want to use it, or you can open My Computer, and it should be listed there. Double click on the name of it and it opens in a new window. You can now drag and drop files into and out of it. Also, if you are downloading files from the Internet, you can specify to save the files in this location and they go straight onto your pny. Once the file is saved onto it, you can remove it from the computer and take it with you to keep your files close, or use to to transfer files between computers. You may need to use a method of removing it from the computer that prevents damage to the data on it. This process involves clicking on a small icon in the system tray (by the clock in the bottom right hand corner) that looks like a green lower case "t" that says safely remove hardware. Click on this and then click on safely remove my "pny drive" and in a second you should get a message that says you may now safely remove your device. Unplug it and you are done!

Restart your PC and try it again or try it on other PCs. If problem persists then pen drive is defective. Return to retailer and ask for a replacement.

try a different usb slot ..if that doesnt works then it sounds like your pen drive is damaged .. that can happen in several ways .. if you carry it around with you, make sure the cap is on ... it can get static zapped otherwise .. also the gold fingers inside can get dirty .. another way the drives are damaged is to remove them while data is still being written to the drive ... wait until the light is no longer flashing before removing .. if you are using win98 or winMe .. then make sure you turn off the device before removing ..

Your pen drive is infected by a virus/worm. I have two solutions for this -   > If you have WinRAR software, just open up the pen drive using this and delete "autorun.inf" from it.  OR  > Use any good antivirus software and scan your pen drive, and disinfect the pen drive from any virus/worms. Remove your pen drive, and insert it again. It'll work fine.

Make sure you are attaching your pen drive into an USB 2.0 port (also called "high speed USB port"). It must be formatted to FAT32, if it still fails you might try the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. If you are using Windows 98 then you need special driver for your pen drive.

If Windows (you didn't say), try using Disk Cleanup from Accessories > System Tools. There could also be hidden files on it. In Control Panel > Folder Options > View click the box for "Show hidden files"

Hope that helps...

Geno

Sounds like it's fried. Pen drive sometimes go bad, especially is they are pulled out of a machine without stopping it first. Not much you can do, sorry.