Keep Your USB Drive Cap.
How often have you left your USB pendrive cap behind when you've finished?
Here's a simple way of keeping the drive with its cap.
Here's a simple way of keeping the drive with its cap.
The Problem
This type of USB pendrive is very common, but I use mine in many PCs and have taken the pendrive away but left the cap lying on a desk somewhere several times.
This is a very simple Instructable to ensure that the cap always comes away with the drive.
This is a very simple Instructable to ensure that the cap always comes away with the drive.
The Solution.
We've all got various knick-knacks lying around which use this ball-type chain.
Use a pair of pliers to cut yourself a 6 inch piece with a joiner on one end.
(Mine is minimum length - Don't make it any shorter.)
If you can't see how the joiner works, stay away from I.Q. tests - You'd only embarrass yourself.
Link the cap and the pendrive with the chain, rejoin it and job done.
Use a pair of pliers to cut yourself a 6 inch piece with a joiner on one end.
(Mine is minimum length - Don't make it any shorter.)
If you can't see how the joiner works, stay away from I.Q. tests - You'd only embarrass yourself.
Link the cap and the pendrive with the chain, rejoin it and job done.
Much Better
Drive and cap now joined, so if you lose one, you lose them both.
This is a 1GB drive which boots into Vista PE (there's an Instructable about setting this up somewhere) and I use it to run various diagnostic and recovery utilities.
This is a 1GB drive which boots into Vista PE (there's an Instructable about setting this up somewhere) and I use it to run various diagnostic and recovery utilities.