re: can't transfer files to flash drive
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 9:27 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alan Masterman
(462 messages posted)
Hi Jerry,
I'm not a USB expert, so I can't be as specific as you might like, but as you've
tried different ports and flash drives, with no success, the clear inference is that
the problem lies within the operating system.
In WinXP there are basically five files which relate (do a file search quoting "USB"
to confirm that this is true for your system). In the directory C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32,
they are USBMON.DLL and USBUI.DLL. In the directory C:\WINNT\INF, they are USBSTOR.INF
and USBSTOR.PNF. In C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS, there is (again) USBSTOR.INF.
It's possible that one of these has become corrupted, perhaps by a bad sector developing
on your hard drive. First run CHKDSK, to cover that possibility, and then re-instal
known good copies of these files (which you can download from the internet). Try
to make sure the date/time stamps are as close to each other as possible, (although
you may not have much choice in the matter.) In particular, the two instances of
USBSTOR.INF should be identical. This is easily achieved because, obviously, you
can download one copy and then paste the same copy to the other location.
If that fails, then you'll just have to restore the ghost image which you've been
faithfully copying at least once a week to an external hard drive. You do have that,
don't you, Jerry??!!?
On Friday, March 20, 2009 at 8:50 pm, Jerry V. wrote:
>Ok, I'm not sure exactly when this problem began but I never had a problem doing
>it before. Now, no matter what file type I try to copy to a flash drive (& I've
tried
>with more than 1 flash drive & diferent usb ports) I get a box with a meassage that
>says, error copying xxxx file, The directory cannot be created.
>
>I've done some online searching for the answer to this problem, with no success.
>So I'm here again to get some expert help. If you have an answer to my problem,
please
>be as specific as possible.
>
>
>Thanks, Jerry
>
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