It is possible to boot from a USB flash drive on some PC's. It has to be
selected as an option in the BIOS setup program.


"CLR" wrote in message
...
.... And they are so easy to swap. What I would
"really" like, would be if I could have my own Operating System and my own
programs all on my own USB drive and walk up to any strange computer and
it
would boot and run from my drive and it would feel like home....... Vaya
con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"JLatham" <HelpFrom @ Jlathamsite.com.(removethis) wrote in message
...
Glad to hear someone else makes this kind of use of flash drives also.
I've
got a 4GB drive pretty much full of work I drag back and forth between
home
and office - and often work from directly on the flash drive. One Excel
file
on it is well over a year old and has probably been accessed daily with
updates daily.

Jessica, I hope CLR's suggestion pans out for you. I think what Nikos
Yannacopoulos wrote in his first post is probably on-point: make sure
that
you 'eject' or use the [Safely Remove Hardware] feature before unplugging
a
USB device. After using that feature, wait long enough for the cache to
get
flushed and for the file to be written completely to the USB device - you
can
usually tell when it has finished by just watching the indicator light on
the
device or waiting for the [It is safe to Remove...] message from Windows.

"CLR" wrote:

Jessica..........I use Flash/Jump drives all the time, working directly
to
and from them constantly and have never had a problem losing a file.
Sometimes, however, when I do a SaveAs, and change the name of the
file,
the
computer will divert the save to the C drive (default directory)rather
than
putting it where I got it off my JumpDrive. Go home, and do a search
of
your
computer by the FileName, or parts thereof, and it may show up as
being
stashed somewhere else..........

hth
Vaya Con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"jessica" wrote:

I just finished a spreadsheet last night that was opened from a
flash/jump
drive and saved back on it after editing. I took the drive to work
and now
it is saying that is a unable to read file. So I brought the drive
back home
and it still won't open--saving unable to read file. Please help!