What does my USB Flash drive ask me to format everytime?

Conrad11 · 21 Oct 2008 at 23:03

Every time I put my Corsair Flash Voyager in my machine it prompts me to format it but when I navigate to it in Explorer its fine and I can read/write files and the changes will be saved etc...

So why does it ask me to format and how do I get it to stop?

PhillyDee · 22 Oct 2008 at 00:52

Did you safely remove it?

My Maxell 1gb, Sandisk 2gb and my sawn-off 4gb all do this too. Work fine, but windows wants to format them. But only sometimes . . .

Conrad11 · 22 Oct 2008 at 01:05

Yep safely remove 99% of the time (not that I think you actually need to - write caching is off [i think])

_Jimlad_ · 22 Oct 2008 at 09:36

sounds like it's on it's way out, all mine that have had that error don't let me read my files, so your quite lucky, have you tied getting your files off and then formatting it?

Conrad11 · 27 Oct 2008 at 14:11

_Jimlad_ said:
sounds like it's on it's way out, all mine that have had that error don't let me read my files, so your quite lucky, have you tied getting your files off and then formatting it?

Yes tried this.

Its not an old flash drive, only bought it a couple of months ago.

_Jimlad_ · 27 Oct 2008 at 14:56

Conrad11 said:
Yes tried this.

Its not an old flash drive, only bought it a couple of months ago.

to be honest mate, if you have tried formatting it and you are sure it does it on a few computers and not just yours i would RMA and get a new one, i had this issue and then happly sent me a new one.