hi guys and girls....

My gf have a problem when using toshiba 4GB thumbdrive......

the thumb drive works very fast on Windows XP but when plug into Mac...its very slow...

plus recently....the files are corrupted.....

she copied from a Mac computer and then tried to open in Windows computer but the windows computer says the file is corrupted.

anyone knows if this is a problem with the thumb drive or is because need to format using the Mac computer?

thanks.

check whether the file is NTFS or FAT32 format. cos mac is better with fat32...

Which mac is that? Some older mac only have USB1.0.

it is FAT32....

plus I think I should mention it has the U3 program ....

dunno what this is for.......

plus if I format this.....will it be ok? or is the U3 the culprit?

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Added on July 9, 2007, 11:02 pmhmm....my main concern is how come the files get corrupted......

and the Mac is G4

This post has been edited by tester1979: Jul 9 2007, 11:02 PM

Did u open the file in Mac and then in Windows? What type of file and with which software program u/yr gf open it with?

U3 is a bundle of programs to value add the thumb drive, a collection of program that onli needs the USB stick (and Windows) to run. If u dun wan it, its ok.

Better to format it in Windows to FAT and use it in Mac.

Mac uses a different text file formating and the file naming is different.

Hope this helps a bit

If it's NTFS, it sure cannot write the files cos' by default mac only read NTFS. Unless you use 3rd party plugin, ntfs-3g to enable write

TS already said that it's FAT32. Why need to format into FAT again? I don't think there's anything goin' do with U3 programs.

Try copy the file to your handy again. About the slow transfer speed, i bet your mac machine is using old USB, 1.1version.

I m using Toshiba 4G too wth my MBP, so far speed is good!

U3 is really annoying, i am still trying to find a way to get rid of it as the U3 partition is READ ONLY i can't format in using either Windows or Mac

hmm....do you guys think it matters if I format using Win Xp or Mac?

i mean of course the format will be FAT32

First of all, have you or in your case, your gf try using other USB handy to copy that file? I don't think your handy got any problem with that. I suspect is either the file itself corrupted or the file is saved as compatible only for mac platform. Hope it helps

hmm....thanks for the tips....

will try and check it out.