How to Speed Up Copying to a Flash Drive
A flash drive is a solid state memory device that has no moving parts, making the drive more portable and less vulnerable to shock damage than that of a hard drive. The speed at which data is transferred to the solid state memory of the flash drive happens at the computer it is connected to, not the drive. The procedures for speeding up copying to a flash drive are straightforward and will not harm the flash drive or the computer in any way.
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Consult the computer's manual to locate which of the USB ports are version 2.0, rather than 1.1 which transfers data at a slower speed. Plug the USB connector on the end of the flash drive into the 2.0 USB port on the computer. Let the icon of the flash drive appear on the desktop before copying a file to it -- in some cases a LED will briefly illuminate on the drive as it mounts the computer.
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Plug the flash drive into a USB port on the computer. Click "Start" > "Computer." Double-click the icon of the hard drive in the window that appears. Right-click on a file below the icon. Select "Delete" from the pop-up menu. Click "Yes" in the pop-up window that appears. Repeat this with all of the files that appear in the window so that the Windows operating system is not slowed down in reading data information from the flash drive during the copying process. Close the window by clicking the red "X" in the upper right corner.
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Purchase a "ReadyBoost" compatible flash drive that has a minimum of 256 gigabytes of free storage space on it. Plug the flash drive into a USB port on the computer. The Windows operating system will speed up flash drive operations due to the ReadyBoost system's compatibility with that of the operating system.
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