Usage and Maintenance of USB Flash Drive

Brief introduction of USB flash drive

USB flash drive is kind of removable storage product with miniature high capacity. It can be connected to the computer to exchange the information which makes the portable mobile storage into reality, and enhances work efficiency. USB only consists of outer skin and movement. And in general, the outer skin is made of metal and plastic, so it can be divided into metal usb flash drive and plastic one. However, with the development of technology, there are many new kinds, such as leather usb flash drive, leather usb flash drive and wood usb flash drive.

Details of maintaining usb flash drive

Although usb adopts usb port which supports hot plug, this action is not supported, especially while the indicator light is still flashing. That will do great harm to usb. No matter which your computer system is, XP, vista or win7, I recommend closing any opening files or folders, wait for 5 seconds, then pull out the usb flash drive. If you are in extreme emergency, or pull out the usb flash drive in a hurry for any other reasons, it is suggested to insert it 10 seconds later. There is write-protect switch which is the logo of a lock and a key in the genuine usb flash drive. If you slide it to the state of lock, you cannot write the files in. In addition, if the switch is needed to be glided, the USB drive flash should be pulled out. You will damage the wholesale usb flash drive, if slide the switch while the files in usb are read.

Some problems existing in the usage

Usb flash drive can read data, but cannot preserve the files. You should check whether the read and write switch is glided to the appropriate position or whether the usb flash drive has been fully occupied, and try to delete some files to preserve the new one. If the problem still exists after what have been done, you have to format your files. 2. That the copied file in the usb flash drive cannot be opened and the file name also becomes gibberish may be caused by its quality, for it is smuggled goods or modified by dilatation tool. Then you have to initialize it with USB-CDROM. 3. The usb flash drive can be opened with double-click which may be caused by virus, and then you should kill the virus with antivirus program.

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