ghost icon on memory stick

[ianh68]

Whenever I copy a file from my hard drive to my memory stick a ghost icon

(looks like a foggy CD) appears on the stick instead of the yellow folder. I

can't open the ghost icon and I can't delete it either. If I try and delete

it disappears then reappears a few seconds later. Is it a virus? Is the stick

corrupted?

 

[Frozen]

That foggy icon is just a file that comes up whenever you copy anything.

It is basically there as a temp copy of the file as it is sent accross.

That's why it disappears.

And its foggy because it's only temporary, and thats why it can't be

deleted.

--

Frozen

FR OZEN - Pioneering the new way to fix computers, hitting them with a

HUGE hammer.

 

[ianh68]

"Frozen" wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

>

> That foggy icon is just a file that comes up whenever you copy anything.

>

> It is basically there as a temp copy of the file as it is sent accross.

> That's why it disappears.

> And its foggy because it's only temporary, and thats why it can't be

> deleted.

>

>

> --

> Frozen

>

> FR OZEN - Pioneering the new way to fix computers, hitting them with a

> HUGE hammer.

> </span>

The foggy icon does not disappear. The original folder icon which I copied

does not appear. All I have on the data stick after repeated attempts to copy

a folder containing no more than Word documents is a foggy icon that can't be

opened. This never used to happen. Also b.t.w. I now have a caption HAPPY

BIRTHDAY following my mouse around the screen. What's going on here?

Thanks

Ianh68