Problem with flashdrive
 

Alright so I have both a mp3 player and a digital camera, and I have a small problem with them.

When I connect them to the USB cable, it's fine, computer recognizes the device I see the directories and that's all fine and all, except one thing.

When I try to open a file that's on the flash drive it won't open it, and I can't copy it to my harddisk. No big deal with my mp3 player. I can just delete a directory, put a new one in there and i'm set, but with the digital camera it's obviously a problem. can't see the pictures and can't copy them either.

My sister upstairs has a laptop and they work fine there, so it's obviously something with my pc, anyone have any idea what it is? It can't be drivers, because I didn't install them upstairs either.

Have you tried connecting everything through a different USB port on your computer?

yeah two different cables too. always same thing. Can't copy from flash drive to my hard drives, or read files on it.

Does it happen with all USB devices or just those ones? Maybe there's some sort of global Windows setting that doesn't let you write/read from flash drives?

Edit: Do you have any sort of virus scan programs running? Those have been known to cause crazy things like that to happen.

no virus scanner, and my mouse works fine on both of those ports. no idea what it is.

Perhaps something that locks file transfers from there? It might be worth a shot going to your device mananger and disabling your USB slots and restarting. I think it reinstalls them when you do that (though you might want to verify with someone else on the forums before you do that, I seem to remember doing it years ago to fix something, but that might have not been what I actually did).