8gb Transcend Flash Drive with slow read/write speeds

[romsfan]

Hi, Im having some problems with my flash drive, on Xp works like a charm, but on windows 7 is really slow, it wont write faster than 800Kb/s and when i plug it on the PC it always says, this devices could run faster if you insert it blablabla... and other devices like Kingston, work great...

Any ideas on what could be the problem??

Thax

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Hi, Im having some problems with my flash drive, on Xp works like a charm, but on windows 7 is really slow, it wont write faster than 800Kb/s and when i plug it on the PC it always says, this devices could run faster if you insert it blablabla... and other devices like Kingston, work great...

Any ideas on what could be the problem??

Thax

If you insert it into a USB 2.0 port? You likely need to update your USB drivers. It did that on this old Dell Dimension that I got from a good friend, until I updated its drivers.

 

[pparks1]

Did you install the chipset drivers for your motherboard?

 

[romsfan]

If you insert it into a USB 2.0 port? You likely need to update your USB drivers. It did that on this old Dell Dimension that I got from a good friend, until I updated its drivers.

I dont know how to update the USB drivers, in running Win7 ultimate, and it already had the chipset, video and Lan driver for my MSI motherboard, I only had to update the Realtek HD driver for the Audio, plus the Cds i have for the motherboard wont run on win 7 cuz it says its only compatible with Vista/xp/200/etc

any ideas?

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi, Im having some problems with my flash drive, on Xp works like a charm, but on windows 7 is really slow, it wont write faster than 800Kb/s and when i plug it on the PC it always says, this devices could run faster if you insert it blablabla... and other devices like Kingston, work great...

Any ideas on what could be the problem??

Thax

For some reason your computer is seeing the USB as usb 1.1 and hence the your device could be faster message. If it works in XP and not in win 7 I would suspect usb driver. you can verify by going into device manager (type device manager in search) and looking at the USB section (root, hub, etc) if any yellow flags you need to update the driver.

Let us know if you need help with this

Ken

 

[romsfan]

Noup, no yellow flags on the device manager, and its weird that this only happens with my Transcend 8gb flash drive, cuz I have tried other brands and they work fine...

Could this be a compatibility issue between win7 and transcend flash drives?

Thanks for the help guys

 

[zigzag3143]

Noup, no yellow flags on the device manager, and its weird that this only happens with my Transcend 8gb flash drive, cuz I have tried other brands and they work fine...

Could this be a compatibility issue between win7 and transcend flash drives?

Thanks for the help guys

Could be I have seen more weird things than that. What about the Transcend web site for vista driver?

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

romsfan, can you give me the following information about your flash drive?

Product Type:
Product Series:
Part Number:

 

[romsfan]

I checked the Transcend site and theres only user manuals, drivers for win98

DarkNovaGundam I dont know that info, this device is really old so i dont have the box where it came... all i know is that its an 8gb JetFlash V10

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

ramsfan, yeah i see that all product numbers have the same driver. You could try installing them with compatibility settings?

 

[Antman]

http://www.transcendusa.com/support/dlcenter/datasheet/TS8GJFV10_DS.pdf

 

[BlackBuzz]

i had a similar problem with my transcend 16gb

try formatting it using the NTFS system instead of FAT32

my speeds rocketed! hopefully the same may be true for you!

 

[Sassa]

I read about HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8 on Transcend forum, it was recommended by the anmin i think.
I formated mine 8GB Transcend and it helped me.
It's worth a shot.
Here is link: HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8

 

[romsfan]

i had a similar problem with my transcend 16gb

try formatting it using the NTFS system instead of FAT32

my speeds rocketed! hopefully the same may be true for you!

Thanks men, this really helped, I dont know why but it still shows the message that says that the device could run faster if its pluged on a 2.0 Usb but now I see its writing at 30+Mb/s

Thanks to everyone who posted to help, u guys are awesome