USB Flash Drive Issue

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I have a USB flash drive, that when plugged into any machine (XP, Vista or Windows 7) the following message is displayed

Please help.

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Hit cancel and see if you can open it? Copy the data and then format it.

You may also want to try running chkdisk against it.

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Did you by any chance format it previously to a system which Windows can’t read, such as Ext4?

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I’ve seen a similar issue. I have a USB drive that works perfectly under Windows XP, both for reading and writing. When I plug it into a Windows 7 machine, I see a message like the one in your screenshot. I’ve found that I can cancel the message, and the drive then works perfectly. I can’t say for sure if the same will happen in your case, but it would be the first thing to try.

Mike

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I had the same issue. Did as Mikl did, and it worked fine. Weird situation, but it definitely made my heart skip a beat.

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