I recently got a new memory stick as a sort of upgrade from my old one
It seems to behave oddly compared with my first one.

Both memory sticks are USB 2 and my PC is usb 1.1, so when putting them in they make a sound and I get a little balloon thingy pop up. On the new one, the balloon pops up, you close it and another one pops up.

When you remove it, using the remove hardware logo in the systray, as you should, after a while it makes a sound as if you had not

Here is a movie showing this

Any clues?

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Hmmm, interesting, mine does the same (256 MB), but it started doing it after I added a USB Hub to my laptop, it didn't do it when I had it connected directly to the laptop's built-in port.

If it's any consolation I haven't found any issues with my memory stick, it works fine.

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Get a USB 2.0 card, then you'll have the proper high speed ports. The cards are cheap.

As for what exactly is going on there, it's difficult to tell.

There's no way you have multiple partitions on the memory stick, is there?

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Yes there is,it depends on the software that comes with it, but it's possible

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How can I tell if there are multple partition, because I never put them in if there are

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I do have a 4 way USB hub, but that is plugged in at the back.

I do not get this behaviour with my 128 MB memory stick which is USB 2.0 as well.

As for putting in a card, that would involve taking the cover off of my PC and would be very scary, to me. Think of all the angst I had last year when I was told to put my PC into SAFE MODE after it got hit with spyware and I had to get an engineer in.

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First, instert your flash drive. Find where you have "My Computer". Right click on My Computer and click "manage" (it should be near the top of the pop-up menu). On the left, there should be a tree with a "Storage" node. If "storage" it is not expanded, click it. Then click on "Disk Management" (if it is already expanded click "disk management right away"). You should see something like This. It won't be exactly the same, because you have a different hard-drive setup that I do. The important part is the lower pane. You can see in my 4 disks right now. Disk 0 and Disk 1 are hard drives. Disk 1 has only 1 partition, so it has one box stretched across the entire screen. Disk 0 has 5 partitions, so it is divided into 5 boxes (one is too small to see, but it is directly the the left of "H:"). Now below that is "Disk 2". That is my XD memory card reader, there is no XD memory card so it isn't showing anything right now. You can see it has a little picture of a floppy disk, that is because it is a removable drive. Below that, "Disk 3" is my flash memory drive. Note the "UDisk 20x", I don't know about your flash drive but mine is always identified as this. It also has a little floppy because it is also considered a removable drive (CD drives have a picture of a CD, but they are not a concern right now). Now you can see that it is divided into only one box. That means there is only one partition. Now depending on what drives you have this may be in a different place, so look for a removable drive with almost as much memory as your flash drive (note this says it is 476MB drive, even though it is supposed to be 512 MB. This is normal)
If it has one big box, partitions aren't the problem. But if it doesn't, you are going to need a lot more help or are just going to have to be sure to eject both partitions before trying to remove the drive.

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OKhave done that on my works PC - I think they have USB 2.0 as I do not get any pop up messages on my works computer.

Attached is the result

looks like there are no partitions

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Couldn't tell you about two initial windows - not all memory sticks are created equal.

But I do know that under Windows XP you do not need to use the Safely Remove Hardware tool for USB devices. That was a holdover from Windows 2000, and the feature is designed to protect the devices, not Windows.

Just make sure that you're neither reading nor writing to it before you remove it.

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That's risky, I killed a memory card by not ejecting it before removing it. Ejecting it is the most reliable way to guarantee nothing is being written to it or read from it.

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o.O you should need usb 2.0 in your pc to use it..

Yea i never eject on windows, never had a problem...just make sure it isnt reading or writing or you wont get all of the data transferred, i doubt it would do any real damage to the memory stick though.

All USB 2.0 devices should be compatible with a USB 1.1 host. Obviously it will not operate at high speed when so connected.

One thing I discovered is that when you first connect a new flash drive, the system will go through its discovery process and you'll see a sequence of popups saying things like "New device found", etc. This will only happen once, generally -- but I found that on my new laptop it would do this once for each new physical port I plugged it into (there are 4 on this system).

I haven't seen a flash stick do what Sticks describes. Are both popups the same? Are they the typical message, or something unusual?

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The messages in the pop ups are identicle

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What brand is the memory stick? Also, do you get the "incorrect removal" sound on your work computer after you take out the memory stick?

The memory stick or the box does not seem to give a brand name. I got it from 7DayShop.Com and is just described as a 1GB Flash Drive.

Re the sound, according to a friend of mine, he said that the second noise is a rising tone, which he says is an "OK" noise, as opposed to a falling tone that they use for the "error" noise.

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