I am haing a problem, I am using the portable freeware pack from infobox.com but am having 2 problems. 1)the access speeds are far too slow. I am using a new 2GB datawrite viyager (USB2.0) on a USB 2.0 connection, is there a way I can optimise speed for any computer i use it on? like force caching or somehting? 2) There is a huge discrepency between the size of the files and the size of the files on disk. Can i change the cluster size or can anyone offer a solution to reclim all the lost space? (P.S. I have just tried defrag - that clearly doesnt work nor help.) Thanks Alias: Neo

Hi, just a quick note. This may not be relevant, but I now have 3 makes of 1gb USB pens, and totally fed up with all 3. On 3 differet pcs, they take well over 6 hours to transfer 750mb of files, in this instance there are about 2000 files in the relevant folder, and yet to transfer 750mb of (eg videos - say 2 films) takes about 10 minutes, so the problem with these pens seems to be not the size of transfer but the number of files to transfer. It seems that on each filename transferred, access to the usb pen elsewhere has to be made first to create the actual filename by the op system /driver? Overall, I have given up with pens altogether, and find you cant beat the speed of simply transferring all the files to a DVD-RW for mega quick transfer to another pc. Hope this info helps a little.