Vista wants to format my USB sticks

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AR_GTR

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I have a desktop machine running Vista SP1 and it used to read my USB flash drives with no problem. I used them on both the Vista machine and my laptop running XP Home.

Recently I tried to read my USB stick on my Vista machine and it told me I need to format the drive but that same stick opened successfully on the XP machine. Anyway I copied the data of the drive (from the XP machine) and formatted with Vista. After the format it gave me the same message again.

Anyone else had this problem? Or know how to sort it out? I have a feeling it's one of the Vista updates
 
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Xp formatted disk drives with ntfs in particular give issues with vista i noticed. Best bet is to format in vista.. usually after that i have zero problems with vista. Xp handles it as normal. Its not limited to usb drives though.. its screwed up a 250GB hdd already due to this issue :( thankfully i recovered 60% of the data
 
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krycor said:
Xp formatted disk drives with ntfs in particular give issues with vista i noticed. Best bet is to format in vista.. usually after that i have zero problems with vista. Xp handles it as normal. Its not limited to usb drives though.. its screwed up a 250GB hdd already due to this issue :( thankfully i recovered 60% of the data
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I hear what you're saying but I already formatted one usb stick on Vista. After that i tried reading it on Vista and once again told me I have to format ii (after just doing seconds before, tried full and quick format methods)

That same vista formatted stick I tried it on my xp machine and that read it just fine :confused:
 
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