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Hi! I need a help please! My external hard disk can't be seen on my computer but visible on device manager. I know that it needs formatting but vista o/s is not posible maybe there's a way but don't know how. I've done formatting a drive with xp o/s & works when used on vista. I just wanna learn some other way with vista o/s a way of formatting a drive. Your expert advice will be greatly appreciated....
As jack said, "Some usb keys or flash drives have a little switch that locks it & makes it read only. Try looking for something like this".
I had this problem yesterday. Covered that place of missing (probably broken) small switch with adhesive tape, the same way used to do with copy protected floppies some decades ago, and voil� ! Problem solved.
I had this problem yesterday. Covered that place of missing (probably broken) small switch with adhesive tape, the same way used to do with copy protected floppies some decades ago, and voil� ! Problem solved.
hi
u have to put the pendrive into usb port
u have to boot from windows 98 bootable cd then next it will show the command promt from command promt u have to type format space corresponding drive leeter and put the (:)
click the enter button
u have to put the pendrive into usb port
u have to boot from windows 98 bootable cd then next it will show the command promt from command promt u have to type format space corresponding drive leeter and put the (:)
click the enter button
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Jun 24, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Jun 24, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Thanks for the answer, it work for my flashdrive,
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Hey guys I found a good answer. Change the Drive Letter and that's it. Really worth a try. Sometimes Vista gives a double use for one drive letter. Then you will not see it to be opened although it is seen in Drive Management, which is under management, when you right click 'Computer'.
Natya Natyanam.
Natya Natyanam.
