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Originally posted by CookieRevised
This said, on one computer at parents home (Windows XP too; but not quite up-to-date) I have problems with many USB sticks too, no matter how big or small they are. I suspect this is due to the USB hardware itself, some sort of caching problem. Because I noticed that when I write large amounts of data to the USB stick in one go, Windows can't 'keep up' so to speak and kind of chokes up and fails to write the last couple of data. When you write in small amounts (eg: only a few files at a time) it works without any problems. I also have tried the formatting method (reformatted to NTFS) before but that didn't help either.
Yeah, I tried it again just copying a few files and it seemed to work alright. The XP computers I'm using it on are mostly at my sixth form college, so I can't install drivers and stuff... Although my XP at home causes similar issues and I'm not too sure what drivers are on here (but I've now turned on fast removal so hopefully it'll work better at home at least).
