Ask A Geek

Q: how do I transfer iTunes from my flash drive to my laptop?

Q: Need a small flash drive for my 10 year old son to bring word and power point documents back and forth to school. I does not have to be big. What is the difference in brands or types of flash drive. Is one safer or more reliable?

Q: How many “one page documents” can fit on an 8GB flash drive. Just a ballpark figure.

Q: Can an 8GB flash drive handle 8000 name list?

Q: I have a thumb drive that will not open. I have used it as my Backup for many files. I have tried to open it in multiple drives, with no luck. My best guess is that it is corrupted. IS THERE ANY WAY TO RETRIEVE ALL/MOST OF THE INFORMATION?

Q: My comcast dvr has an USB port. How can I play a flash drive? I put the flash drive in but I don’t know what to do next, using the comcast remote?

Q: I entered a resume that I had on an old computer to my laptop from a flash drive. The computer is running Windows XP and Windows mail. My laptop is using google mail. Now, it does not let me download the resume because it does not recognize it because I don’t use Windows mail. Because of this, I cannot send out my resume whenever the warning shield comes on to open it up. How do I get this completely out of my system?

Q: How do you transfer Video to a flash drive? I have a REB-16GB flash drive. The videos transferred but when I try to play them from My Computer-?Removable Disk D? and then tried to play them in Windows Media Player a box comes up saying Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file. How do I fix this? What can I do?

Q: Can I download software off the web to a flash card and transport it to another PC?

Q: I recently purchased 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate. When I try to format my flash drives, quick format is checked by default. In order to full format I uncheck the quick format box. However, a full format takes several minutes. Is there any disadvantage in using quick format every time I format my flash drives?