I have used this flash drive for two days and saved a couple of things. Today i opened a file on the flash drive and made some changes to it. I went to save it back to the flash drive and it said the file cannot be saved, make sure that the disk you want to save the file to is not full, write-protected, or damaged. I have 7.4 gb of free space left. What is the problem?

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Determine how much space you need. The first step in backing up your hard drive is to figure out how much space you will need to back up all of your files. You can do this in a couple of ways. Find out how large the hard drive is on your computer first to see if you can back up the whole thing. Click on "My Computer," right-click the "C" drive and select "Properties." This shows the approximate of your hard drive, how much space is actually taken, plus the space used by your operating system. If your hard drive is manageable (the space actually taken), back up the whole thing. Your second option is to create a file called "Backup" and copy all of your important files into it. Right-click on the folder once everything is copied over and choose "Properties" to find out the of the folder. This is how much space you will need to back up your important files only. Choose a backup method. Choose either an external hard drive, data disks (CDs, for example) or use an online backup service. Plug the flash drive or the External Hard drive into your computer's rectangular-shaped USB drive. Wait for Windows to recognize the system. Windows operating systems use "plug and play" technology, which means that computer peripherals like USB flash drives can be recognized instantly by the system without further need for device configuration. Open the drive on your computer. Open the "My Computer" directory if using Windows XP or the "Computer" directory if using Windows 7 or Vista. Locate the flash drive letter and icon under the section named "Devices with Removable Storage." Double-click the flash drive icon to open it. Transfer files to the flash drive. Click the "Restore" button in the top-right corner of the "Computer" or "My Computer" directory to shrink the window so that you can view your computer's desktop background. Open the folders or locations of the files which you want to save to the flash drive. Click and drag with your mouse each of the files and folders you want to save to the flash drive over to the empty space in the "My Computer" or "Computer" window. Release the mouse button to let the files "drop." Close the windows and directory locations when finished. Save files directly onto the flash drive. From an open file (i.e. text, spreadsheet, image files. etc.), click the "File" menu and "Save as" option. Select the "My Computer" or "Computer" directory in the drop-down menu at the top of the "Save As" box. Double-click the flash drive letter under the "Devices with Removable Storage" section. Click the "Save" button to save the file onto the flash drive. Close the windows and files when finished

You might have to create a folder you can do this by right clicking in the backup destination drive selecting new folder and name it lets say Back Up 2012 for the excercise.

Determine how much space you need.

The first step in backing up your hard drive is to figure out how much space you will need to back up all of your files.

You can do this in a couple of ways.

Find out how large the hard drive is on your computer first to see if you can back up the whole thing. Click on "My Computer," right-click the "C" drive and select "Properties."

This shows the approximate size of your hard drive, how much space is actually taken, plus the space used by your operating system.

If your hard drive size is manageable (the space actually taken), back up the whole thing.

Your second option is to create a file called "Backup" and copy all of your important files into it.

Right-click on the folder once everything is copied over and choose "Properties" to find out the size of the folder.

This is how much space you will need to back up your important files only.

Choose a backup method.

Choose either an external hard drive, data disks (CDs, for example) or use an online backup service.

Plug the flash drive or the External Hard drive into your computer's rectangular-shaped USB drive.

Wait for Windows to recognize the system.

Windows operating systems use "plug and play" technology, which means that computer peripherals like USB flash drives can be recognized instantly by the system without further need for device configuration.

Open the drive on your computer.

Open the "My Computer" directory if using Windows XP or the "Computer" directory if using

Windows 7 or Vista. Locate the flash drive letter and icon under the section named "Devices with Removable Storage." Double-click the flash drive icon to open it.

Transfer files to the flash drive.

Click the "Restore" button in the top-right corner of the "Computer" or "My Computer" directory to shrink the window so that you can view your computer's desktop background.

Open the folders or locations of the files which you want to save to the flash drive.

Click and drag with your mouse each of the files and folders you want to save to the flash drive over to the empty space in the "My Computer" or "Computer" window.

Release the mouse button to let the files "drop."

Close the windows and directory locations when finished.

Save files directly onto the flash drive. From an open file (i.e. text, spreadsheet, image files. etc.), click the "File" menu and "Save as" option.

Select the "My Computer" or "Computer" directory in the drop-down menu at the top of the "Save As" box. Double-click the flash drive letter under the "Devices with Removable Storage" section.

Click the "Save" button to save the file onto the flash drive.

Close the windows and files when finished

Hope this helps.

you have to physically save any work
save the history to a usb drive in case you have computer failure

Plug the flash drive into your computer's rectangular-shaped USB drive.

Wait for Windows to recognize the system.

Windows operating systems use "plug and play" technology, which means that computer peripherals like USB flash drives can be recognized instantly by the system without further need for device configuration.

Open the drive on your computer.

Open the "My Computer" directory if using Windows XP or the "Computer" directory if using

Windows 7 or Vista. Locate the flash drive letter and icon under the section named "Devices with Removable Storage." Double-click the flash drive icon to open it.

Transfer files to the flash drive.

Click the "Restore" button in the top-right corner of the "Computer" or "My Computer" directory to shrink the window so that you can view your computer's desktop background.

Open the folders or locations of the files which you want to save to the flash drive.

Click and drag with your mouse each of the files and folders you want to save to the flash drive over to the empty space in the "My Computer" or "Computer" window.

Release the mouse button to let the files "drop."

Close the windows and directory locations when finished.

Save files directly onto the flash drive. From an open file (i.e. text, spreadsheet, image files. etc.), click the "File" menu and "Save as" option.

Select the "My Computer" or "Computer" directory in the drop-down menu at the top of the "Save As" box. Double-click the flash drive letter under the "Devices with Removable Storage" section.

Click the "Save" button to save the file onto the flash drive.

Close the windows and files when finished

hope this helps

First you need to create a desktop.ini file in your flash drive.

Open Notepad and click Save as.

Then set file name to desktop.ini and change Save as type to All files.

Click Save as.

Place your wallpaper in the flash drive. It should be a ".jpg" file

Open desktop.ini file from your flash drive. Copy and paste below code to it.

Last line of the code, you can see "IconArea_Image=wallpaper.jpg". Replace "wallpaper.jpg" with your wallpaper name.

[ExtShellFolderViews]

{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

Attributes=1

IconArea_Image=wallpaper.jpg

Save your file. Unplugged the flash drive from PC and plug it again. That's it.

If you need more information

Visit SmartUSB.net

Add wallpaper to your flash drive background

http://www.smartusb.net/p/add-wallpaper-to-flash-drive-background.html

Change your flash drive icon

http://www.smartusb.net/p/change-flash-drive-icon.html

Insert symbols to your flash drive label

http://www.smartusb.net/p/insert-symbols-to-flash-drive-label.html

Hide a file or folder in your flash drive

http://www.smartusb.net/p/hide-file-or-folder-in-flash-drive.html

Change font color in your flash drive

http://www.smartusb.net/p/change-font-color-of-your-flash-drive.html

Change the icon of a flash drive or any kind of removable disk which use to store data, is very easy.

Just try this,

1. Open Notepad and copy and paste below 2 lines to it.

[autorun]

Icon=logo.ico

2. Save it as autorun.inf to your flash drive

Before to click Save as... change Save as type to All Files

3. Then copy and paste your Icon file to flash drive

4. Rename it to logo.ico

5. Remove your flash drive from the PC and plug again

You will see your flash drive with a custom icon

For more and clear information visit

http://www.smartusb.net/p/change-flash-drive-icon.html

I think you will also like these things,

Insert symbols to your flash drive label

http://www.smartusb.net/p/insert-symbols-to-flash-drive-label.html

Hide a file or folder in your flash drive

http://www.smartusb.net/p/hide-file-or-folder-in-flash-drive.html

Add wallpaper to your flash drive background

http://www.smartusb.net/p/add-wallpaper-to-flash-drive-background.html

Change font color in your flash drive

http://www.smartusb.net/p/change-font-color-of-your-flash-drive.html

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Microsoft has a fix for USB and other external peripherals.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925196#fixit4me

Hope this solves your issue. Good luck and all the best!
Greg

Yes, power cuts, surges, low voltage, variable voltage and any sudden changes in electricity can cause a hard drive to fail or act improperly. If the drive had failed, though, you wouldn't be able to see or do anything with the drive now. Are you able to save anything to the drive now? can you browse to it and save a small text file or document? If you can save a document and read it from the drive now, the drive isn't completely failed, and your data may still be recoverable.

run a check disk on the memory stick - most likely a good indicator that the flash drive is on its way out as they normally have a life span of about a year or two.

1. Right click My Computer and select Manage.

2. Open the Device Manager and find your USB drive under the Disk Drives heading.

3. Right click the drive and select Properties.

4. Choose Policies tab and select the "Optimize for performance" option.

Click OK.

6. Open My Computer.

7. Select Format on the flash drive.


Hurrah there is NTFS option available now

8. Choose NTFS in the File System dropdown box.

9. Device Formatting is completed.


Important: To remove a device safely without data loss use a "safely remove hardware" procedure or Eject function from Windows Explorer.

plug it to the computer and reformat the drive.