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Clearing a thumbdrive?
wrexham
27 Feb 07, 00:16
hmm, when i try to delete my files from my thumbdrive, it says its unable to read from source file / disk.
=/ how?
gigabyte14
27 Feb 07, 00:20
reformat?
and maybe ur thumbdrive has been locked. check again.
wrexham
27 Feb 07, 17:23
nope, it's not locked
=/ how to reformat?
ndmmxiaomayi
27 Feb 07, 17:54
You using Windows or Linux?
How come your errors so Linux-like?
Unable to read from source file
typical Linux error
wrexham
27 Feb 07, 18:14
windows
-.- its just the thumbdrive, dunno how come suddenly some files with weird names appeared
unable to delete them
howhowhow?
ndmmxiaomayi
27 Feb 07, 18:19
What weird file names?
If it's temporary files (usually something like bla bla bla.tmp), they will be gone once you close the file or program.
If not, just delete them.
If it's a thumbs.db file, please don't delete that. It's part of your thumbdrive.
wrexham
27 Feb 07, 21:30
no lah, lol
all the weird symbols =/
105090
27 Feb 07, 21:44
whoops.. i always get thumbs.db fle on jpg files... always ignore them when i transfer them
wrexham
27 Feb 07, 22:39
as in, it's not even english.
its all weird symbols =(
gigabyte14
27 Feb 07, 22:54
Originally posted by wrexham:
as in, it's not even english.
its all weird symbols =(
name some of them.
wrexham
27 Feb 07, 22:56
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m262/janepigeon/thumb.jpg
ndmmxiaomayi
27 Feb 07, 23:25
Hmm... weird files.
Are you able to open them?
wrexham
27 Feb 07, 23:27
nope.
haha, judging by everyone's response, it's unclearable =(
ndmmxiaomayi
27 Feb 07, 23:31
I guess you got to reformat the thumbdrive.
Right click on the thumbdrive and select Format.
wrexham
28 Feb 07, 00:20
done.
and thanks, yet again =P