I bought a new 8G USB drive at Walgreens. My TDS Ranger 500 with Windows Mobile 5.0 does not recognize it. I have tried to re-format it to EXFAT and FAT32 (as if I have even the slightest clue what the hell that means). Still no good. My Windows 7 pc sees it just fine every time though.
Suggestions?
Can you format it on the Ranger?
I have an 8 GB USB thumb drive that my tsc2 will not recognize also, but it will see my old 4gb. Try a smaller thumb drive. The older models can't deal with the larger thumb drives....
> Can you format it on the Ranger?
I looked for a way to do that, to no avail.
> I have an 8 GB USB thumb drive that my tsc2 will not recognize also, but it will see my old 4gb. Try a smaller thumb drive. The older models can't deal with the larger thumb drives....
Ahhh, but I have another 8G that the Ranger sees A-Okay.
But, that makes me wonder what the pc says the properties are on THAT usb.
That one is FAT32 too, which is why I tried to format my new one to FAT32.
I want to use this new USB because it closes up and fits nice and safe in my front pocket.
Other thoughts?
I bought a mini SD card for my phone and had that problem.
Called Sandisk and the tech guided me thru the process to format it.
USB is somewhat different, but that is the way to go, contact the 800 number on the package.
0.02
Reboot the Data Collector.
Same situation with me. Rebooted, it was able to read the DC.
Reboot the Data Collector.
> Same situation with me. Rebooted, it was able to read the DC.
Unfortunately that did not work for me?
I will try to download a format tool from the PNY website...
I've had this issue myself
I'd say that its not worth wasting any more time on
Just ditch it and get another, maybe of the same brand that does work.
Take your data collector to your local geek shop, talk to the staff and make sure it does work before you leave.
Just my $0.02
> I've had this issue myself
>
> I'd say that its not worth wasting any more time on
>
> Just ditch it and get another, maybe of the same brand that does work.
>
> Take your data collector to your local geek shop, talk to the staff and make sure it does work before you leave.
>
> Just my $0.02
Excellent advice!
Otter out.
You can re-format the larger one to be smaller....
You all might want to check your USB port versions.
I don't recommend missing around with firmware/flashware upgrading or tinkering around with unless you REALLY know what you are doing.
My last machine had USB 2.0 hardware ports but was using 1.x firmware drivers. I was feeling especially dangerous one day and upgraded them to 2.0 versions and hardware that wasn't being recognized became recognized.
That might be a problem.
ExFAT versus FAT32 I wouldn't think should be a problem. ExFAT is a lesser version of FAT32. FAT = File Allocation Table. That has to do with how the operating system manages data on the hardware. FAT32 is also known as NTFS (NT File System) and was introduced in Windows NT 2.x - just an fyi. NT3 absolutely had to use it being it was fully 32 bit. Operating that were not 32 bit, such as Win95 or 98 or ME et.al., could not see FAT32 formatted devices but NT3 had no trouble reading or writing to FAT16 media.
I've never had to format any USB device before so I'll just ask: can you partition these things into multiple drives? If so, I wonder if you were to make a partition of say around 4Gb would it make a difference?
Perhaps you or someone else can glean some insight with all that.
If you find a solution, I would sure be curious.
E.
Seems like I ran into this before
it might be too large,( i know WTF)
try a 4 gig one or maybe smaller
fat 32 should be fine
I run fat 32 through a Tesla (2012) and a Ranger (2006)no problem
but for some reason i forget i only use a 1 gig
I believe you can partition it to be seen as a smaller size (4GB).
I had to research this once because a trail camera I had just purchased would not recognize anything larger than 1 GB. I had a larger card that would not work.
This is interesting....per Wiki
Fake USB flash drives are sometimes sold, claiming to have higher capacities than they actually have. These are typically low capacity USB drives which are modified so that they emulate larger capacity drives (e.g., a 2 GB drive being marketed as an 8 GB drive). When plugged into a computer, they report themselves as being the larger capacity they were sold as, but when data is written to them, either the write fails, the drive freezes up, or it overwrites existing data. Software tools exist to check and detect fake USB drives.[39][40] In some cases it is possible to repair these devices to remove the false capacity information and use them normally.[41][42]
I like the idea of partitioning it
try that it might just work