[Wylug-help] Help with usb stick

[James Holden]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:28:33PM +1030, Isabell Hampton wrote:
> Dear James
> 
> Thanks for your reply each time I plug it into the usb port I get that
> message I have tried another usb port at the back of my machine no luck I
> have tried to format it sometimes I get that message but it tries then I get
> the message windows cannot complete the format I may have pulled it out
> before I should have but it is working on other computers I am stuck
> Regards Isabell 

Isabella,

This mailing list is for people to get help with running Linux, not Windows. I think you may be asking in the wrong place.

I don't know enough about Windows to be able to help you further. Sorry!

Regards,


james

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Holden [mailto:james at jamesholden.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:42 PM
> To: Isabell Hampton
> Cc: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Help with usb stick
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:47:18PM +1030, Isabell Hampton wrote:
> > My usb stick will not allow me to access it the message is 
> > 
> > The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error
> > 
> > But it was working a few days ago and it works on my laptop and an other
> > computer 
> > 
> > I do not know what to do
> > 
> > Isabella
> 
> This could be a number of reasons.
> 
> Perhaps the usb-storage module isn't loaded so the device isn't accessible.
> 
> Maybe the partition table has become corrupted.
> 
> 
> Where do you see the I/O error message? Does it occur in the system log?
> What steps do you need to do to reproduce the problem?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> James
> 
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