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user1397
July 18th, 2007, 12:25 AM
Okay so I was transferring music from my brother's macbook to my ubuntu desktop with a 2 GB pen drive. I got all the music I wanted into the usb drive, and then I plugged it into my desktop, but the little light didn't show on it, and it didn't mount either. So then I tried with every possible USB port around my house, and the light still doesn't show.

How could this happen? It's like brand new, and I always unmounted it first before unplugging it...

(And I was able to use it a couple of times before it died, so at least it wasn't defective from the start)

FuturePilot
July 18th, 2007, 01:20 AM
I had that happen once. Plugged it in a couple times and then it never worked again. Brand new too. Must just be defective.

Atomic Dog
July 18th, 2007, 01:40 AM
That has happened twice to me and it also involved an iMac -moved filed from iMac, took it out, then boom -bad drive.

I thought it was a coincidence, but now I gotta wonder...

LookTJ
July 18th, 2007, 02:06 AM
Take the blame on Apple... Just joking...never had that happen to me....