Have your lost USB drive ask for help

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Have your lost USB drive ask for help

by Jordan Running (RSS feed) Oct 30th 2006 at 12:55PM

With USB drives getting larger in capacity but smaller in size every day, the space on which you can scrawl your "If found..." contact info is becoming more and more limited. The solution? Make your USB drive identify itself and ask to be sent home if someone finds it and plugs it in to their computer. The Daily Cup of Tech has a tutorial and a little program for making a box with your contact information (or anything else you might want to tell your USB drive's would-be finder) pop up when it's inserted into a computer. Unless you're a programmer, you'll want to scroll down to the bottom where you can download a pre-compiled version of the program. Of course, this will only work if a) the receiving computer runs Windows, and b) AutoPlay isn't disabled on it, but this is a pretty cool technique that just might get your precious USB drive returned to you the next time you misplace it.

[Via Street Tech]

Tags: autoplay, flash drive, FlashDrive, lost, recover, return, thumb drive, ThumbDrive, usb drive, UsbDrive

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Chris said 1:34PM on 10-31-2006

If I download the file and don't create it myself will I be able to fix the typo?

Jordan Running said 1:47PM on 10-31-2006

From the site: "Simply download LostDrive.zip and extract the contents to the root of your USB drive. Then edit the readme.txt file to say whatever you want. Save the file and you are done!"

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