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USB Flash Drive - Disk not formatted error
Windows XP is having a problem with USB flash drives on my system. When I
plug them in they are assigned a drive letter, but if I try to open them up I get a "disk not formatted" error. I've spent hours working on this but am getting nowhere. I know the USB devices are working, and I know my USB ports are good. - This error occurs on every USB device which is accessed as a folder (have tried several flash drives from several manufacturers) - The drives work fine on other XP systems - Other USB devices, like GPS, Webcam, digital camera, printer, work fine I've gone into the control panel and have uninstalled all the USB drivers multiple times, rebooted, and let them reinstall. Same problem. Windows recognizes the device and size correctly when I view the properties. If I attempt to format the drive, I just get an error: The format did not complete successfully. Anyone have any clues to what might be going on?? Thanks for any pointers. |
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USB Flash Drive - Disk not formatted error
=?Utf-8?B?QmlsbA==?= wrote in
: Windows XP is having a problem with USB flash drives on my system. When I plug them in they are assigned a drive letter, but if I try to open them up I get a "disk not formatted" error. I've spent hours working on this but am getting nowhere. I know the USB devices are working, and I know my USB ports are good. - This error occurs on every USB device which is accessed as a folder (have tried several flash drives from several manufacturers) - The drives work fine on other XP systems - Other USB devices, like GPS, Webcam, digital camera, printer, work fine I've gone into the control panel and have uninstalled all the USB drivers multiple times, rebooted, and let them reinstall. Same problem. Windows recognizes the device and size correctly when I view the properties. If I attempt to format the drive, I just get an error: The format did not complete successfully. Anyone have any clues to what might be going on?? Thanks for any pointers. As a despiration measure, you might try dragging the file: C:\Windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 into the trash (don't empty trash just in case), and reboot. Note that the "inf" directory is a hidden directory. This should force a fresh reload of the driver. HTH, John |
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USB Flash Drive - Disk not formatted error
As a despiration measure, you might try dragging the file:
C:\Windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 into the trash (don't empty trash just in case), and reboot. Note that the "inf" directory is a hidden directory. This should force a fresh reload of the driver. HTH, John Thanks. Unfortunately that's one of the things I tried and it didn't seem to solve the problem. In another newsgroup someone mentioned deleting this file, plus removing some entries in the registry under the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\ branch which point to USB Mass Storage device drivers. I was able to delete the file, but I wasn't able to remove those entries in the registry. It looked like they were locked somehow. Bill |
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USB Flash Drive - Disk not formatted error
=?Utf-8?B?QmlsbA==?= wrote in
: As a despiration measure, you might try dragging the file: C:\Windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 into the trash (don't empty trash just in case), and reboot. Note that the "inf" directory is a hidden directory. This should force a fresh reload of the driver. HTH, John Thanks. Unfortunately that's one of the things I tried and it didn't seem to solve the problem. In another newsgroup someone mentioned deleting this file, plus removing some entries in the registry under the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\ branch which point to USB Mass Storage device drivers. I was able to delete the file, but I wasn't able to remove those entries in the registry. It looked like they were locked somehow. Bill Strange. I had no problem deleting the registry entries on my machine. As Administrator, try right-clicking on one of the folders in Regedit, then select "Permissions" to see if you have a permissions problem. -- John |
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USB Flash Drive - Disk not formatted error
Strange. I had no problem deleting the registry entries on my machine.
As Administrator, try right-clicking on one of the folders in Regedit, then select "Permissions" to see if you have a permissions problem. -- John I learn something new every day. I didn't realize you could right click and get the permissions, but that was the problem with the registry. I set the permissions and deleted the keys, but after a reboot and reconfigure of the USB ports, I still have the same problem. Bill |
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USB Flash Drive - Disk not formatted error
I had the same problem. I finally found THE solution: re-instal WindowsXP! -- janklaude56 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ janklaude56's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=35629 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=823011 http://forums.techarena.in |
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USB Flash Drive - Disk not formatted error
I had exactly the same problem, same symptoms. Only USB sticks produced "not formatted error", hard disks and other devices worked normally. No solutions anywhere on forums, but if you notice the problem soon enough, there is one. It must have been the registry, since I solved it by finding a restore point 2 days old, and luckily everything is OK now. So I will never know where the problem in the registry was. -- ivan2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ivan2's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/88223.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-x...ort/823011.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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USB Flash Drive - Disk not formatted error
Bill;3181772 Wrote: Windows XP is having a problem with USB flash drives on my system. When I plug them in they are assigned a drive letter, but if I try to open them up I get a "disk not formatted" error. I've spent hours working on this but am getting nowhere. I know the USB devices are working, and I know my USB ports are good. - This error occurs on every USB device which is accessed as a folder (have tried several flash drives from several manufacturers) - The drives work fine on other XP systems - Other USB devices, like GPS, Webcam, digital camera, printer, work fine I've gone into the control panel and have uninstalled all the USB drivers multiple times, rebooted, and let them reinstall. Same problem. Windows recognizes the device and size correctly when I view the properties. If I attempt to format the drive, I just get an error: The format did not complete successfully. Anyone have any clues to what might be going on?? Thanks for any pointers. Ive had a simular problem and could not fix it, untill, - if you don't need the data to be recovered then try this out it works in recovering dead usb sticks, and in changing the format or recovery of a stick to any format you choose. First get a copy of UBUNTU 8 or 9 , plug in your usb stick and if it ask you what to do, then skip a bit of what i say next, go to the part where it ask you - Do you want to use the usb device as a boot disk - say yes - format the device, - remove the usb stick, - and reformat it in your computer as what ever you want 16 bit , 32bit , NTSC. The usb stick should now be working, if not give it to someone you don't like. -- R.D ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R.D's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/115969.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-x...ort/823011.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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