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Jump drive may refer to: USB flash drive, a data storage device; Hyperspace drive, a fictional space travel method This page was last edited on 31 ...
The 2007 Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction lists the following terms related to the concept of space drive: gravity drive, [t] hyperdrive, [u] ion drive, jump drive, [v] overdrive, ramscoop (a synonym for ram-jet), reaction drive, [w] stargate, [x] ultradrive, warp drive [y] and torchdrive.
A USB flash drive, also variously known as a, thumb drive, pen drive, jump drive, disk key, disk on key, flash-drive, memory stick or USB memory, is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface.
USB flash drives have been integrated into other commonly carried items, such as watches, pens, laser pointers, and even the Swiss Army Knife; others have been fitted with novelty cases such as toy cars or Lego bricks. USB flash drives with images of dragons, cats or aliens are very popular in Asia. [37]
A buffalo jump is an example of a game drive system. Hunters herded the bison and drove them over the cliff, breaking their legs and rendering them immobile. Tribe members waiting below closed in with spears and bows to finish the kills.
The prevalence of malware infection by means of USB flash drive was documented in a 2011 Microsoft study [6] analyzing data from more than 600 million systems worldwide in the first half of 2011. The study found that 26 percent of all malware infections of Windows system were due to USB flash drives exploiting the AutoRun feature in Microsoft ...
USB flash drives typically implement the USB mass storage device class. The USB mass storage device class (also known as USB MSC or UMS ) is a set of computing communications protocols , specifically a USB Device Class , defined by the USB Implementers Forum that makes a USB device accessible to a host computing device and enables file ...
A USB flash drive needs to be connected to the system, and be detected by it; One or more partitions may need to be created on the USB flash drive; The "bootable" flag must be set on the primary partition on the USB flash drive; An MBR must be written to the primary partition of the USB flash drive