Lakesidezx

I too ran across some posts about how this Memorex travel drive worked and
how they formatted it to NTFS and 16kb, so I tried that, as well as many
other possibilities but just couldn't get it to work.

I have a strong suspicion that this feature is bugged in vista and how it
detects. Because what works for one should surely work for another, meaning
that if someone formats the travel drive to NTFS and 16kb then that should
also work for someone else.

But I've also found that the PNY 4GB Attache drive that I bought today was
being reported as not compatible, but in the end it turned out that it was
compatible (I have another post here about it so I'll just quote myself
below):
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Okay, after vista reported that my Memorex traveldrive (4GB) is
incompatible, I just returned it to the store and bought a PNY 4(GB) attache
device.

Vista reported this as incompatible for ReadyBoost.
But heres what I noted.....

I went into windows explorer and right clicked on the USB PNY device and
chose the readyboost tab, then test again, each time it failed the test, but
what I noted was that the screen behind the properties screen (the windows
explorer screen) was writing a .tmp file to the "H" hard drive, which is a
physical hard drive on my system and the PNY device is listed at location
G:\

So what was happening is that windows for some unknown reason seemed to be
writing it's temp testing file to one of my physical hard drives instead of
the actual usb flash device.

The work around for myself was to make sure that I had highlighted the G:\
(PNY USB flash device) AND then right click on it and choose properties then
the readyboost tab then test again and sure enough it is compatible.

This makes me think that *perhaps* the same thing was happening with the
Memorex traveldrive as well that I returned to the store, but I can't be
certain since I already returned it.

Just an FYI for anyone else that has a problem with the PNY 4GB attache
flash device.




"Bret Butcher" <bretbb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Lakesidezx wrote:
>> Just in case anyone else feels like taking advantage of the sale at
>> staples for the Memorex 4GB travelmate usb flash drive to use for
>> ReadyBoost. Don't bother, it isn't compatible.
>>
>> It's still a good price at $54.00 if you have a need for a 4GB flash
>> drive but according to vista it's too slow to use for readyboost
>> unfortunately.
>>
>>
> I had the same problem with a PNY 2gb. It constantly failed the test.
> I ran across another post and someone mentioned it could be a problem
> with the drives format. I reformated my PNY 2gb and it passed the test
> and is now being used for ready boost. Just thought I'd pass it along.