repair usb flash drive

It seems that is possible to give a USB flash drive / USB memory stick a behaviour that is very similar to autostarting CD’s and DVD’s. The only difference is that the user must press Enter or OK before the program is launched or the document shown, but after doing that things works in the same way. And in Windows Vista we can sometimes be so lucky that the flash drive is 100% autostarting. This is interesting because this means that we can have a particular program started in the USB flash drive when it is plugged in the USB port.

Example of an AutoRun menu interfaceOne very interesting use is to have a menu interface shown automatically when the USB flash drive is plugged in the USB port, in the same way that a menu is shown when a commercial CD or DVD is inserted into the disc drive. This seems to be possible. If, for example, the menu program has the filename “MYMENU.EXE”, an Autorun.inf file with the contents below can be created and placed in the root folder of the USB flash drive to handle an automated opening of the menu:

[AutoRun]
OPEN=MYMENU.EXE
ICON=MYMENU.EXE
ACTION=Show Menu
LABEL=My Menu

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