Top 10 Kingston (DTIU3/2GB) 2 GB USB Hard Drive Questions & Answers

Hi
u do ot require driver for xp. its plug and play
if its not working than something wrong with ur xp- usb configuration. pls checkp their

Found this on Kingston site, doesn't help much but may point you in the right direction.

Unfortunately this unit does not have any security or write protection feature. If you receive a write protection message with this drive, check for the following:

1. Verify that you are allowed to write to removable storage devices. There may be a security setting in the OS that disables write access to removable storage devices.
2. Make sure you have not enabled write protection on the drive by using a third party software.
3. If none of the above apply, the drive may be defective.

Try in another usb ports. Then try in other computers. loose connections. If problem persists replace the usb drive.

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!)

urDrive CAN be downloaded from the official Kingston website. They provide it because often people who have their USB drive lose the software when they format the drive. However, depending on the version and where you are trying to install it, you may see this error: "This drive is not authorized to run this software."

Windows 98 does not support USB automatically, You need to install Windows 98 USB driver. Please click on this link to download the USB Kingston driver for Windows 98 :-
http://www.kingston.com/support/USBFLASHDRIVES/downloads/default.asp?s=DTI_HS

If you format your drive you will lose the urDrive software.

Get another copy here: http://www.kingston.com/support/urdrive/urDrive_1.1.(124)_GA.zip

Installation Instructions:
Once WinZip opens (or an alternate compression tool), highlight all of the urDrive files and extract them directly to the Kingston drive.

click start control panel administrive tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select properties then security select take full control in windows 7

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
don

Try this link to format a write protected usb drive. http://techsalsa.com/solution-to-remove-write-protection-from-usb-pen-drive/

Hello,
1. Shutdown your computer or laptop
2. Insert USB Memory Stick into your laptop or Computer
3. Turn on laptop and then immediately start pressing (F8) key then Advanced Boot Options screen will come up
4. Select Safe Mode with Command Prompt
5. After loading files if your USB Memory Stick drive letter is (G) for example then write as
6. C:\windows\system32>G: and press enter
7. G:\>format G: and press enter
8. If ask you (Y/N) then press (Y) and press enter
9. Now a full format will start which remove write protection from USB Memory Stick.
Note:
Before removing USB from your computer, Always remove it safely by going into to my computer then right click on USB and click eject.
Thanks