in or on the handy drive

[doingresearch]

:-(i was hesitating when writing an email to ask a friend of mine to find out my handy drive. so we should use "data on the handy drive" or "in the handy drive?"
mant thx

 

[emsr2d2]

:-(I was hesitating when writing an email to ask a friend of mine to find out about my handy drive. [STRIKE]So we[/STRIKE] Should I use "data on the handy drive" or "in the handy drive"?
[STRIKE]mant thx[/STRIKE] Many thanks.

I always refer to information being stored on my hard drive/external drive/pen drive etc.

What is a handy drive?! :-D

 

[Tdol]

What is a handy drive?!

I've seen the term used for both USB Flash drives and external USB hard drives, though I haven't heard native speakers using it.

 

[doingresearch]

Many thanks for your editing, i love that, apart from your answer.
Yes, i should have used a flash drive, where did i get that word from :-??

 

[Tdol]

It's actually quite a good term- it deserves to be adopted. ;-)