I believe I have discovered the answer. It appears that the flash drive I
purchased was a counterfeit!! I have since purchased a new one and things
seem better.

"Taylor" wrote:

> I have been using a USB flash drive in working between two machines, one
> running on XP and the other running on 2000. I have had several instances of
> directories being created that are "00000000.00". when I try to delete them,
> I am told they are corrupt. They have usually been created as sub
> directories and have replaced the data that was originally in the directory.
> One of my co-workers thought it may have to do with deleting files and not
> emptying my recycling. Does anyone know anything?
>
> Taylor