Hmmm... I actually own a 256MB Cruzer Mini, and it's the best flash drive I've ever used. I've never had a problem like what you're describing. What OS are you using?

If you have the Titanium model, and you're using the encryption software, that could be giving you problems.

Otherwise, there's some possibilities I can think of:

1. The thumb drive is broken
2. The computer is recognizing it, but there is a driver issue.
3. You need to reformat the drive.

A good thing you could do is try the drive on another computer. If it works, at least you'll know it's not the drive, but something with your PC.

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I inherited a SanDisk cruzer USB flash drive with upgradeable capacity.
Since these have been on the market for many years my question is:

Now that we have SD Cards in excess of 1-2 GB capacity, is there any known problem with using the Cruzer to transfer files to a 1+ GB SD card?

Specifically I use my AXIM X5 with the Pharos GPS. The OSTIA maps for the Pharos cover the entire U.S. (and now some otheroffshore maps are becoming available). I can get the entire Western States, or Eastern, Southern or North East, on 512MB SD's. with a 1 or 2 GB SD Card, I could load almost the entire set of U.S. Maps.

Loading these maps directly to my AXIM w/SD card is VERY slow. Loading maps to the SC using the Cruzer is much faster.

Would anyone predict any problem using the SanDisk Cruzer to load in execess of 1 or more GB of maps onto the SD card?

Thanks for the advice.

AJ

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Hi i recently decided to use my scandisc cruzer usb device yesterday for the first time, and all went well up until my friend unpaciently chose to pull it out without safely removing the hardware first. So today it continues to say SecurDataStor has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Is there any hope that my music data is stiil there and is my scandisc broke?

Once you get it going again set your settings for quick removal so it will stop this from happing again :-D

I have had a 2.0GB ScanDisc removable drive now for approx 6-9 months. Unexplicably tonight it stopped working. The nifty orange light won't work except for a quick on/off flash when on it's way to being plugged in. Otherwise I can plug it in & my laptop won't even recognize it's even there. I have been using it exlusivly instead of the laptop hard drive for fear of the laptop taking a crap on me. I have no back up of the information on the drive.

How screwed am I? Is there any way to temporarily access the information on the drive to move it to my laptop hard drive?

SOMBODY HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

Kris

Help?

Recently I purchased a Cruzer Micro 2GB. It worked great up until the case broke apart. It does not light up and I'm sure the wires at the end of the flash connection is loose.

I see the mirco chip mounted in this, It's just the end of the flash drive that goes into the computer is crushed.

Any ideas?? Please,, I need help from anyone whom might have crushed theirs and were able to retrieve the data.