dohogn, I don't know why you had a problem with this. I just installed it, used it, formated and put my original files on it - no problem. How old and how much use did you get from the drive before you installed portableapps on it. Maybe depending on the age and usage your drive reached its natural end of life cycle. »

I was a little unclear and made a typo above please don't flame me :) the memory capacity is 16gb using two 8gb SD-HC cards. And I also want to add that since getting this device it has all but replaced my laptop. It goes everywhere with me even when I would not bring the laptop in the past. »

I have a device for you to check out..the Nokia n800. It is Linux based, has WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, a nice wide screen, media player and with the latest firmware release supports Skype and up to 16gb using SC-HC cards (2 - 1 beside the the battery and one outside both are easily hot swappable). There is a large and growing open-source community providing add-on software support and development tools for the product. The suggested price is $399USD but I got mine for just over 300usd on EBay back in April Here are the Europe, US and Canada web site witht eh full product descriptions. http://europe.nokia.com/A4305062 http://www.nokiausa.com/link?cid=EDITORIAL_217334 http://www.nokia.ca/english/products/n800/n800.asp »