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Posted on   Wednesday, December 10, 2008   by   Kaushik Patowary   Pen drives are so small that they can be easily misplaced and even lost. How do you make sure that your lost drive is returned to you by the finder? Leave you name and contact info in the drive? Yes, but we will do it a different way. First we will look at a software that displays a message when a pen drive is accessed, and then we will implement the same thing with our own coding. USB Lost and Found  is an interesting piece of software that informs the finder of a lost pen drive about the rightful owner of the drive. The free edition of this software can display a user configured message whenever the USB drive is accessed. The tool is actually quite simple: it creates an executable application called “setup.exe” on the root of the pen drive, that displays an alert box with the owner’s email or phone number, and then causes this application to auto launch by creating an auto.ini ...