I have an apacer Handy Steno 2.0 USB flash drive. I typically would use it on Mac OS 9 to download files, and then transfer them to home. (Win2k) Anyway, Mac OS 9 didn't like my drive from the start. It wouldn't recognize it without restarting the computer, and even then it would freeze when I would copy anything bigger than 1500k. Quite recently, I was attempting to copy a 3MB file to it. (on Mac OS 9) and, (as I suspected) it froze. However, I had found that if it froze during the copying process, that pulling the drive out would "unfreeze" the computer. So, I did that. THe Mac OS then informed me that the drive was unusable by the Mac OS 9 unless I re-formatted it. I really didn't take much notice of that, as it had happened before, and just required that I re-format it, which I had done a few times. (formatting it with FAT16) Anyway, when I took it home, Win2k didn't show any of the files that I put on it anywhere (yes, I had folder options enabled so that I could see hidden files) but it still didn't show the files, even though it said that 22.6 MB were being used. I tried formatting it, but I didn't have the correct privileges. (family computer) I'm on a public computer right now, and I have the same problem. Anybody know of some disk wiping software that can function without administrator privileges so I can fix this stupid problem?

I've seen problems where files saved on any disk on OS9 will not open on a PC running Windows of any version. FAT32 would be a better choice of file system for your thumb drive anyway. Have you run the thumb drive through chkdsk in Windows. See if calls up those files you transferred as being bad. This is why I hate Macintosh computers! I don't know of any software of what you're trying to do though.

Strange....I opened up the Disk defragmenter, and it lists it as type FAT! I just don't get it.....

Yeah I would definately reformat that as FAT32 then try transfering your files again. OS 9 may just not like FAT on that.

Don't know much about thumb drives but if you need to delete a partition, any partition, try Delpart. Get it here: radified.com/Files

Transferring between MAC and Windows is sticky on these devices. For a MAC to read it, it must be in FAT 16. If you are only going to use it on a MAC, format it in MAC OS Extended. I believe the other choice on a MAC system is "Standard", this is the one you want. In MAC OS10 I believe it is "Unix".