Sturg1647545502 Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 when i pop in any thumb drive i get a "disk needs to be formatted". a format screen pops up, i click format and it says disk cant be formatted....what up with that i run windows XP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 is it with just one PC or any PC you plug it into? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturg1647545502 Posted August 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 just with my pc. tried multiple thumb drives on mine...none work. all the the before mentioned drives work in my Gfs computer a quick google search brought up a forums with someone running into the same problam. instaead of formatting it in FAT or FAT32(the option to format in FAT or FAT32 is an option in the formatting screen) he used NFTS(????) wikipedieaed NFTS and i still dont know what the fuck it is or how it would help me format my thumb drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morabu Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 it's NTFS not NFTS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 does your computer support usb 2.0? all drives are 2.0 now and some don't support 1.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturg1647545502 Posted August 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 yup, went through and updated all the usb drivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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