I took files from my daughter's computer and dragged and dropped into the flash drive,removed it and went and tried to use the files on my husbands computer,they don't work...is it only for the computer that you originally take the files from?
2007-03-18 13:04:17 · 8 answers · asked by crystal 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
it shows the icons but they dont work...
2007-03-18 13:04:57 · update #1
My guess is you removed the flash drive before the files were finished copying. Before removing the flash drive, click the icon in the system tray to remove the drive. The computer should tell you when it is safe to remove it.
2007-03-18 13:10:00 · answer #1 · answered by Linerd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What operating system does your husband have? If it is Windows 98 or earlier, you will need a driver to get that to work. You may need one for Windows 2000. I forget. XP should work. The only other problem would be if the ports on your husbands computer are USB 1.0 and the device is 2.0, although most manufacturers build those things to step down to an earllier version. Good luck.
2007-03-18 20:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you can take file from any computer and use them on another computer, what may have happened is your husbands computer may not have had the software installed to open your daughters files
2007-03-18 20:09:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you eject the drive before you removed it? if not you probably had your files corrupted when you pulled it out. Re copy the files onto your drive then (in the lower right hand corner of the screen) left click on the green arrow and click the top one. if you don't know where that is then just shut the comp down with the drive in it and then pull the drive out.
2007-03-18 20:09:54 · answer #4 · answered by Scooter_MacGyver 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your husbands computer may not have the right applications to open the files that you removed from your daughters computer. do the icons have that microsoft logo on them. if so, you are missing the proper application. go back and check with her system to see what opens them
2007-03-18 20:09:13 · answer #5 · answered by mjlee105 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh, what kind of files? They should work on any computer that has a program to read the format.
2007-03-18 20:09:57 · answer #6 · answered by wave_with_all_ur_fingers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they should work on any PC. All I can think of is that you may have saved a shortcut to the files on your daughter's pc, instead of the actual file...
2007-03-18 20:08:50 · answer #7 · answered by David B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it looks like you have just saved the shortcuts to the files, when i first got mine i did that all the time untill i got used to it
2007-03-19 00:17:37 · answer #8 · answered by D McC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋