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re: can't transfer files to flash drive Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 9:27 am 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't transfer files to flash drive Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm Posted by Jerry V. (124 messages posted) well, the problem was found. Actually the 2 Kingston flash drives were the problem. I went to the Kingston web site & they had the problem addressed & also the fix. http://www.kingston.com/support/USBFLASHDRIVES/faq/pcdt_27.asp Thanks for responding to my problem On Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 9:27 am, Alan Masterman wrote: >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??!!? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum