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What Is A Jump Drive And How Does It Work?
By Victor Epand
A jump drive - also known as a USB drive, flash drive, keychain drive, or disk-on-key - is a plug-and-play portable storage device that uses flash memory and is lightweight enough to attach to a key chain. A jump drive, which looks very much like an ordinary highlighter marker pen, can be used in place of a floppy disk, Zip drive disk, or CD.

When the user plugs the device into their USB port, the computer's operating system recognizes the device as a removable drive and assigns it a drive letter. Unlike most removable drives, a jump drive does not require rebooting after it's attached, does not require batteries or an external power supply, and is not platform dependent.

Several jump drive manufacturers offer additional features such as password protection, and downloadable drivers that allow the keychain drive to be compatible with older systems that do not have USB ports. Jump drives are available in capacities ranging from 8 MB to 2 gigabytes, depending on manufacturer, in a corresponding range of prices.

With a jump drive, data can be retained for long periods when the jump drive is removed from the computer, or when the computer is powered-down with the drive left in. This makes the jump drive convenient for transferring data between a desktop computer and a notebook computer or for short-term backup of small to moderate quantities of data.

You might be able to get the jump drive to work if you have the correct drivers for whatever version of Windows you are running on the old PC. Many flash drives, however, are not designed to work with Windows 95 or earlier. Some will not even work with the original Windows 98. If that is the case, life gets more difficult. USB support is very limited in many of these older PC's, so the obvious solution of using some USB device such as a flash drive, external hard drive, CD-R, or some other device may not work.

If that is the case, you need to

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