Use this application to backup and restore presentation, pictures, songs and applications from and to USB Flash Drive devices and take them with you. Use USB Flash Drives to store personal data, to keep your network configuration and to share information with your friends.
System Requirements
Download: Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager | 650 KB
News source: Tips, Tricks, and Technology for the Field
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows XP Home Edition , Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition , Windows XP Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 2
- .NET Framework 1.1
- Windows® XP
Download: Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager | 650 KB News source: Tips, Tricks, and Technology for the Field
Overview
mUSB flash drives are compact and easy-to-use devices that are similar in use to your computer hard drive. USB flash drives slip into your pocket, conveniently around your neck or on a keychain for ultimate portable storage. USB flash drives in 2005 can hold up to 4 gigs of data, which is over 1700 three-minute songs (66 hours) recorded as MP3s or about three times the content of a standard compact disc. If you share a computer, USB flash drives are a great way to store personal information. USB Flash Drives are also a great option for saving information and share it with others. When you have many things to save and share but you have a limited number of USB Flash Drives, you will need to backup the information and restore it when needed. This is where the Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager application can help you. The Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager will help you backup and restore presentation, pictures, songs and applications from and to USB Flash Drive devices and take them with you. The application can also help you to classify and name USB Flash Drives images (for instance "My network configuration" or "The pictures for my grandma") and lets you see this name whenever the USB Flash Drive is plugged into the computer.
Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager is available for Windows XP only.
Take for example (seen at one of my real servers at work!)
C:, D:, F: , S: - several hard disk with several partitions on each;
E: - CD-ROM drive;
G: - USB 2.0 external hard drive with images to copy;
N: - universal Network drive (DFS share root)
U: - user shares shortcut.
Ready to tell what the drive letter will be for the Flash Drive?
What if I take away the USB hard drive?
Need I even think about this, or should I just use a program that facilitates life a bit?...
This program does not replace it or create innovative ways to "D-n-D"
It's more about the fact that in many drive letter environment finding a constantly changing letter can consume valuable time... Yes, you will find a letter. Eventually. Why waste your time each time for this? (see my comment to #2 for a real-life example).
I remember the days of the Amiga where a drive was not only represented by its device name, but also by its volume name.
windows: would be even more easier. Or how about picturedisk: so no matter where you insert your flash drive all shortcuts will always look for a drive named picturedisk: not f: on one system h: on another.
This would also lift the 26 drives limit that exists in windows.
The only way to circumvent this limit now is to add a drive as a directory to another. Not really a clean way.
edit : though I do see an improvement to this in the new MSH. But that's only in the command shell, not for the entire windows environment.
I have...
I got it in a Windows Update like half a year ago!
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