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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: Brandola on March 04, 2013, 03:45:14 PM

Title: thumb drive error
Post by: Brandola on March 04, 2013, 03:45:14 PM

computer won't open thumb drives. Says they need to be formatted even though they work fine in other computers.

Title: Re: thumb drive error
Post by: quaxo on March 09, 2013, 10:40:27 PM

Need more info.

Brand and model of thumb drives?
How were the drives originally formatted?
Specific version of Windows and service pack on the computer that's not working?
Versions of Windows (or other OSes) you successfully tested the drives on?

Without that information, the only thing I could recommend trying at this point is taking the drive to a computer the drives work on, copying everything off, then taking it back to the problematic computer and letting it format. Then take it back to the original computer, copy the files back on, then try again.