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>Shot in the dark but are they by any chance U3 devices? 
> 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3 

There is no indication of that. They mount fine and can be formatted as UFS and have files copied to them. They are just basic 4GB USB flash drives, on sale at our local Frys. HP brand (but I don't know if someone else is the OEM)...