Dane Elec USB 8GB Reviews

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Good Points: Dane Elec USB 8GB has high capacity, low price

Bad Points: Dane Elec USB 8GB keeps losing files and directories in WinXP

General comments: I purchased an 8GB Dane USB drive from The Source in Canada. It has repeatedly lost data and cannot be formatted correctly. Lost data is somehow changed to garbled file and directory names. This baby is going to have to be replaced.

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I finally gave up and contacted Dane Elec in the Netherlands. They asked me to send the 8 GB stick to them for testing. For them it worked under Vista, but not under XP. Go figure.
They replaced the stick by another one from the same series and... lo and behold... that one does work on both XP and Vista.
So perhaps there was one production run that causes problems and later ones don't. Contact Dane Elec seems to be the best advise in case you have trouble with one of their sticks.
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I fully support the previous comments on this Dane Elec USB 8GB. It works under XP but not under any Vista computer I have tried.

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So far I have had nothing but trouble with my Dane-Elec USB 8bg, I am running Vista and the USB is not recognized once it goes through the initial "found new hardware, installing drivers", phase.
It knew it was there, it installed the drivers, when I open "my computer" it is not there. If I remove it while still in "my Computer" I can very quickly see a flash that says F drive, removable storage. So I think it knows it is there but for some unknown reason it is not showing up, and I can not fin ...