USB Flash Drive Formatting

speedalini · 4 Aug 2010 at 16:09

I formatted my corsair voyager mini flash drive to switch it from FAT32 to NTFS file system (using the win 7 quick format). Trouble is when I plug it back in to my computer windows no longer recognises it - any ideas why that is and how I can fix it?

Cheers

Philtor · 4 Aug 2010 at 16:12

You tried a different PC? Kind of screwed if it's not being recognised now im afraid.

speedalini · 4 Aug 2010 at 16:17

I don't have another pc to test it on, although my tv recognises it and still plays the video file on it

Hagar · 4 Aug 2010 at 16:20

Most USB drives use Fat32 format.

You could try a bootable dos utility that recognises NTFS to reformat in fat32

andy

speedalini · 4 Aug 2010 at 16:27

cool, I was keen to change to NTFS so I could play HD video on my TV from it (i.e. large files)