I formated my 4GB USB Key in Windows XP (Don't ask why). After, everytime I tried opening it, it would ask me to format the disk, after trying to format, it would always fail. After trying different ways to get it formatted, including using my Mac. Now it lost it's partition, thinking that it was 128GB (Yes I said 128GB). I finally used my Mac to partition the drive, by making a 4GB partition and left the rest as free space. Now it says that it's a 64GB drive and it opens on XP. I'm in the process of trying to copy over 40GB worth of Data on to the USB Key to see what happens, so far it's still copying. Any ideas what happened, and why?
2006-11-15 07:32:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
It stopped at an undetermined size. But now the computer recognizes it as a Mass storage drive with no memory. It finds it as drive F: but asks to insert a disk when I click on it. The Mac doesn't even see it.
2006-11-15 08:55:19 · update #1
You didn't enlarge the capacity, it will stop when it reaches it 128mb or whatever lower size capacity you changed it to no matter what it tells you.
2006-11-15 08:24:38 · answer #1 · answered by PappySmurfer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well first off...you really shouldn't format a USB key as NTFS. You should format as FAT32. Because you want this USB drive to talk to all sorts of items, that is the best way of doing it. Now the 40 GB of data will not go onto the drive unless you either compressed it during all this format/reformat or it's just not functioning properly. Time to get a new USB key.
2006-11-15 15:36:02 · answer #2 · answered by goldenfir 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macs can't read ntfs. You need to format it as Fat32 if you do it on a PC. Then you can use it on both PCs and Macs
2006-11-15 19:46:37 · answer #3 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋