[SOLVED]USB Thumb Drive Problem
August 5th, 2016
If i format it, it will erase everything I have on it. It does this everytime, i formatted once on a Windows XP computer, then put files on it. Took it over to another Windows XP computer put it in and got the same message, this happened on my Windows Vista and my Mac. How do i fix this?
are you ejecting the drive properly? as in clicking the ‘eject disk’ icon in the task bar and selecting your drive?
Chances are your drive is completely dead, your best bet is to recover the data from it, then try to format (I doubt it will let you format)
Download a program like, EASEUS Data Recovery, this is the program I used and it worked well recovering data from my 2 dead drives.
Go to Control Panel � Admin tools � Computer Management � Disc Management.
There you can see your drive so you right click and low level format.
After that you can High Level format.
OKay
@: No, I’m not, im just pulling it out should i be?
@: It does let me format it actually, it just asks me everytime i switch it to a different computer to re-reformat it.
@tbinist: Okay im trying that now hope it works =]
if you pull it out while it is still writing it probably will corrupt the file system and will need to be reformated
I should reformat it in NTFS right? By default its set at FAT, but it should be NTFS right?
theres no point formating a drive to NTFS unless its bigger than 4gb (NTFS isnt totaly supported under mac and linux, but FAT32 doesnt allow for files bigger than 4gb)
so should i format it in FAT or FAT32
FAT32 (technicaly FAT describes a family of file systems including FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32)
Im such a noob with this stuff what should the “unit allocation size” be? just keep it default?
Im such a noob with this stuff what should the “unit allocation size” be? just keep it default?Doesn’t really matter to much, but if it makes you feel better set it to default.