Keith

One other work-around is to go to the properties and set it to optimize for
performance - worked on my generic 2gb micro-center drive.

"Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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>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):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> news:OMKhJzZSHHA.480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> 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.
>