Kingston DataTraveler 101 G2 - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

Maybe that is acting as a boot drive. If you do not need it as a boot drive, consider formatting the drive.

Your computer may need drivers installed for your flash drive. Visit your USB drive manufacturer's website, find the "Support" page, and download the drivers for your specific drive. Be sure to know what version of your operating system you are running as it may be necessary to ensure you get compatible drivers. Install the drivers and try again.

Put your drive into a USB port; right click on that drive after it appears in My Computer and select Properties. On the "General" tab, change the label text in the field at the top and click OK to save your change. You have a limit of 11 characters and stick with letters and numbers (spaces are not allowed but you can use an underscore character "_" instead or a space character).

Hi, what's wrong with your flash drive? The most common thing is data loss. If it is so, you can try 4Card Recvoery to recover your files on your flash drive.

Sometimes it comes with a software, you must have erased it.

Re-insert your disk drive. This problem is also appear when your PC got virus. so try in another PC. The best idea is to FORMAT your drive. :)

You can recover deleted files from flash drive with a usb drive recovery software, you may refer to this tutorialRecover Files from USB Drive

You have to be the computers administrator to change any values on any hard drive on your computer. Click start control panel user accounts on the users tab click the name of the computer administrator you must have full control Click start click to open on my computer you should see your usb drive could be E: or something right click select properties there will be an array of options select the sharing tab option then advanced sharing make sure you have a tick in the share this folder box then click permissions make sure you have all 3 boxes ticked full control changes and read in windows 7 Click start control panel user accounts click on the administrators account if you have made one or you will have to create one in windows XP Click start right click on my computer select open Right click the icon of your usb drive (It should be E:/ or something) Click Properties in the menu that comes up Click the Sharing tab Click permissions And finally, click Allow next to Full Control. Click start click on my computer you should see your usb drive right click then select format another way is to control panel administrative tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select format

try download this tool http://flashboot.ru/files/public/Alcor/FC_MpTool_FC8308_FC8406_v.2.02.00.rarclick on FC mptool.exeyou will have blink numbers 01 02 03 ... put your us drive it will apraer on number 01 clic on start menu in the right wait when finish it will work

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First, please disconnect all USB devices and then perform the following steps:

Click "Start" button, type "devmgmt.msc" (without quotation marks) in the "Search" bar and press "Enter". Click "Continue" if necessary.

In Device Manager, double click to expand "Universal Serial Bus controllers", right click on the Host Controller, click "Uninstall" and click "OK".

Repeat the step 2 to uninstall all items under "Universal Serial Bus controllers".

Then, restart your computer and Windows 7 will reinstall all USB controllers automatically.

for xp or earlier

click start right click on computer select properties device manager scroll down universal serial bus controllers you could see a yellow question / exclamation mark? ! or a red X

you will need to update/reinstall drivers

right click to reinstall drivers

if you can see your usb drive but its not working

ports (com&lpt) right click update driver if this fails to fix the problem

check the USB leads that attach to the motherboard usually red white green black make sure they are securely seated and have no dust build up on them dust will cause static and a lot of unforeseen problems to a computer and its parts

if you still have I/O device error

Click start click to open on my computer you should see your usb drive could be E: or something right click select properties there will be an array of options

select the sharing tab option then advanced sharing make sure you have a tick in the share this folder box

then click permissions make sure you have all 3 boxes ticked full control changes and read in windows 7 click start control panel administrative tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click start two boxes automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check now start you might tick one box then return after its finished the first repair then return and tick the second box you should not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage this drive then you restore it to its default status

Right click on usb drive select properties you will have an array of options

Select the hardware option then select your drive properties policies

restore defaults

In XP

Right click on your drive select properties then on customize restore Default in W 7

you might have to alternate doing this repeatedly until the problem is resolved click start control panel scroll to folder options view place a tick in show hidden files folders and drivesthis may vary depending on your operating system if you need more help with this post a reply

sometimes you will need to restart your computer with the usb drive still inserted in your computer

hope this helps click start click on my computer you should see your usb drive right click then select format another way is to control panel administrative tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select format

The exact procedure depends on your operating system, but changing the volume name is usually very similar to renaming a file, e. g., in a file browser window showing the mounted drives, you would right-click on the memory stick icon and select "Rename..." from the pop-up menu, or double-click on the volume name to enable editing it. Of course, you must have write permission for the entire volume. Note: In some OS versions, you may not be able find "recent files" opened from that volume before you renamed it; you'd have to browse directly to the memory stick instead of using the recent files shortcuts.

Not knowing the model # makes it difficult to give you a difinitive answer. Kingston's support docs all say that after x mny failed logins the device will have to be formatted. The default # of failed logins seem to be 10. I think you're out of luck.

formate it in you pc

bridge the gap where the tab should be with a small piece of tape this may do the trick.

First, the basics... There are three kinds of SD cards (SD, SDHC and SDXC). Not all computers are designed to accept all three types. SD cards can store up to 2GB of data, SDHC can store up to 64GB of data, and SDXC cards can store up to 2TB (terabytes) of data. If you are unsure which types of cards your laptop or computer will accept, visit the manufacturer's web site and look for the specifications for your particular model to be sure. It's tempting to want to buy an SD card with a large data capacity, but it's wasted money if your computer will not work with the high capacity card. Make sure you have inserted the card correctly (and fully). The card is 'keyed' (with a notch in one corner) so it should only fit into the SD card slot one way *easily*. Obviously you can try to force the SD card into the slot the wrong way, but the position which goes in the easiest is probably the right way. Some devices have a symbol beside the slot indicating which way the card should be inserted. Be careful, though. It is natural to think the the card should be inserted with the manufacturer's label facing up, but I've seen devices where the card should be inserted 'upside-down', contrary to what I thought. If you are using a Windows computer with a 'recent' version of the operating system (Windows Vista or later), the computer should recognize the card (as a newly attached piece of hardware) and show the card as a new drive letter when you open the Windows Explorer program to view your files and folders. If the card is new, it should be formatted already and can be used immediately, BUT...your computer may need to have a driver program (software that enables the use of specific hardware items). My laptop, for example, uses a driver from Ricoh to enable the SD card slots, and that driver had to be downloaded from the HP support site and installed before my SD card slots would recognize SD cards. If you know you have the correct SD card device driver installed, have an SD card that will work with your computer but still do not see the card in Windows Explorer, you can check in the Windows Device Manager to check its status. You can also use the Disk Management features of Windows to check what drive letter has been assigned to the drive. If the SD card has been assigned a drive letter already used by another drive, then it will not be available in Windows Explorer. If you think any of these last problems I mentioned are part of your issue, reply here and I can see if I can help you further.

Take your memory card out of the device and switch the position of the "lock" tab. One position is for "locked" (i.e., "Write Protected") and the other position will allow the card to be written to (unlocked). NOTE: Some cameras have image protection built into the on-camera software and you may need to configure this there.

Put your drive into a USB port on your computer. Right click on that drive after it appears in My Computer and select Format; set the File System drop-down to NTFS (better file storage space) or FAT32 (more compatibility in older operating systems) and click Start.

Your computer may need drivers installed for your flash drive. Visit your USB drive manufacturer's website, find the "Support" page, and download the drivers for your specific drive. Be sure to know what version of your operating system you are running as it may be necessary to ensure you get compatible drivers. Install the drivers and try again.

okay, problem isn't in ur pendrive problem in ur computer, some kind of viruses attack only removable drives, and user didn't find viruses in computer and also antivirus, you should download microsoft security essential here,--- http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows/security-essentials-download , and update this software insert ur pendrive and start virus scanning as a whole computer including ur pendrive ur problem will surely solve

It sounds like your files are encrypted (for some strange reason). You will need to figure out how to un-encrypt or disable encryption on the troublesome drive. It might help further if you stated what OS's are on the computers involved.