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Really Hot! FREE - Microsoft Flash Drive Manager (Backup/etc.)

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CocoGdog

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I've been looking at some shareware/freeware, but nothing beats free stuff from Microsoft. If you have a USB Flash Drive, download this utlility from Microsoft for WinXP:

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PS - no MS bashing or thread crapping.
 
this is sweet.. I have a couple flash drives and each one has a sh!tty shareware version of that company's sh!tty software.. BLEH
 
At first glance I thought cool! Finally a lightweight utility to manage easy backups and syncronization with a flash drive...but upon further inspection it's not that at all. All it does is allow you to make "backups" of your flash drive itself to your hard drive-which seems the inverse of what you would want to do. You can then "restore" these backups to the flash drive again. The flash drive isn't what I want to keep a backup of, it's the important documents on my hard drive. Seems like they designed this in reverse.
 


This is not a TC and please forgive me for being obtuse, but exactly how would this be different from 'Ctrl-A' -> 'Ctrl-C' -> 'Ctrl-V'? 😕

Now, what I think is a handy tool is this little utility that makes your flash drive bootable... 🙂

 
Originally posted by: rhacquer
Can't believe this has gone 18 hrs w/o any MS bashing! Have the Slashdotters gone soft? ;-)
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F'n Macro$haft! They're just giving this away because they want to control the lucrative flash drive software market! Yeeeaarrrggggh!!!! Ahoy!
 
Originally posted by: crimson117
Originally posted by: rhacquer
Can't believe this has gone 18 hrs w/o any MS bashing! Have the Slashdotters gone soft? ;-)
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F'n Macro$haft! They're just giving this away because they want to control the lucrative flash drive software market! Yeeeaarrrggggh!!!! Ahoy!
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The crimson tide has broken rank with all the M$:heart:s!

 
From MS website: USB flash drives in 2005 can hold up to 4 gigs of data, which is over 1700 three-minute songs (66 hours) recorded as MP3s or about three times the content of a standard compact disc.

4 gigs is 3 times the content of a compact disc? Those are some big CDs!
 
Originally posted by: knightc2
From MS website: USB flash drives in 2005 can hold up to 4 gigs of data, which is over 1700 three-minute songs (66 hours) recorded as MP3s or about three times the content of a standard compact disc.

4 gigs is 3 times the content of a compact disc? Those are some big CDs!
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I can burn 1.4 GB on my CDs 😉
 
Originally posted by: vetteguy
At first glance I thought cool! Finally a lightweight utility to manage easy backups and syncronization with a flash drive...but upon further inspection it's not that at all. All it does is allow you to make "backups" of your flash drive itself to your hard drive-which seems the inverse of what you would want to do. You can then "restore" these backups to the flash drive again. The flash drive isn't what I want to keep a backup of, it's the important documents on my hard drive. Seems like they designed this in reverse.
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Bro I think they designed it in 'reverse' because it's easy to do what you're talking about. All you have to do is just put the files you want on the flash and you're done backing up your data. No utility needed. As you pointed out, this thing kinda turns your flash drive into an 'iPod shuffle of data'. That is, you can quickly and easily load groups of crap on it. Not that useful for me but for someone who is always using their drive and doesn't have enough room on it all the time, I can see how this would be very nice.
 
Originally posted by: The Raven
Originally posted by: vetteguy
At first glance I thought cool! Finally a lightweight utility to manage easy backups and syncronization with a flash drive...but upon further inspection it's not that at all. All it does is allow you to make "backups" of your flash drive itself to your hard drive-which seems the inverse of what you would want to do. You can then "restore" these backups to the flash drive again. The flash drive isn't what I want to keep a backup of, it's the important documents on my hard drive. Seems like they designed this in reverse.
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Bro I think they designed it in 'reverse' because it's easy to do what you're talking about. All you have to do is just put the files you want on the flash and you're done backing up your data. No utility needed. As you pointed out, this thing kinda turns your flash drive into an 'iPod shuffle of data'. That is, you can quickly and easily load groups of crap on it. Not that useful for me but for someone who is always using their drive and doesn't have enough room on it all the time, I can see how this would be very nice.
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I completely disagree-it's just as easy to do what they designed this utility for, which just copies the contents of the flash drive to a predetermined folder in the My Documents folder. Their interface even says "drag files here to copy to the flash drive", which is exactly what I can do through explorer. What I want is to be able to keep constant backups of one or more folders that will automatically synchronize whenever I plug the flash drive in, and then include the capability to do versioning within the interface. All this utility does is present another way to copy files.
 
Originally posted by: crimson117
Originally posted by: rhacquer
Can't believe this has gone 18 hrs w/o any MS bashing! Have the Slashdotters gone soft? ;-)
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F'n Macro$haft! They're just giving this away because they want to control the lucrative flash drive software market! Yeeeaarrrggggh!!!! Ahoy!
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finally
 
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