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Why can't I load thumb drives?

Hi

Basic question, probably.  I have about 400 MB of flac files on a hard drive in a windows computer.  I have, in the past, transferred the whole thing to other hard drives with no problem.  But when I try to load into a thumb drive  the transfer bogs down and stops.

A friend tells me that memory chips are no good in this capacity.  Is this true or is there something I can do to effect the transfer?

Bill

 

 

 

wbs
lordmelton's avatar
lordmelton
877 posts
 

Do you mean 400MB or 400GB?

wbs OP
66 posts
 

My mistake.  

gigabytes, not megabytes, and copy not transfer.

I was tired...

Bill

fuzztone's avatar
fuzztone
5,502 posts
 

Plural?

It sounds like a bad memory stick.

I got plenty of them, stay away from Kingston.

wbs OP
66 posts
 

I have tried 3 different thumbdrives and every time the copy begins OK but slows down to almost nothing after a few GB, and starts indicating errors in the files.  Finally I give up.  

As I said above, a friend told me that memory chips are just not good for this type of large operation and that I should stick to hard drives.  I am hoping that someone can give me a solution.  I am feeding Cabasse speakers that have a micro usb input that is only for a hard drive or a thumb drive and would like to clean up the setup.

Bill

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