I use my Memory Stick a lot. Lately, it is having trouble being recognized by the port in which I insert it. Do these things have a life? I WAG the contacts are wearing? How many cycles of “plug in, unplug” can the things take? Are the contacts that sensitive??? (Reminds me of my outdoor blinds on the sun deck…not made to withdstand outdoor weather!) You’d have thunk they’d have made it just a wee bit more substantial! :rolleyes: - Jinx
They’re probably too new to really know with any degree of certainty.
I don’t think it’s a contact problem, if it was you’d hear the Windows be-boop sound every time the OS thinks the drive has been removed and reinserted.
The oldest one I have is a 60MB drive that’s about 2 or 3 years old. Way back in the olden days, 60MB cost a pretty penny. Now you can get them for $19.95 or less. I don’t know how it’s doing because I upgrade too often. Every time I see a larger capacity drive available for a low price, I upgrade. Presently I have two 512 MB drives that are a year old and now I’m eyeing a 1 gig now because they’re down to $60.
Tee hee!
Seriously, though…
If you are putting your stick in a port (honestly, I’ mean…), does it show up under “My Computer”? (I’m assuming you have Windows.)
If so…try reformatting them. I once bought a MS from New Egg…it was the 256 MB kind where one must flip the little lever to get to the other 128 MB. One side was usable by the camera, but not readable by the computer. A friend stuck the stick in the appropriate slot on his laptop and reformatted it. Voila.
If none of this is what you meant…never mind.