Please Help.
During a new install of WinXP Pro I deleted all partitions seen in WinXP
partition manager which unfortunately included my 128Mb USB Flash Drive which
was still left plugged in after collecting drivers etc prior to install. The
problem is now I have a flash drive which is RAW and WinXP cannot format it
and FDISK of course does not work with WinXP. When I try to format in DOS I get the message:-
"Cannot determine the number of sectors on this volume."
Can anyone tell me the number of Tracks and Sectors I should specify using
DOS Format for a 128Mb USB flash drive or point me in the right direction if
this is incorrect.
If I try to format the flash drive using WinXP I get the message "Windows was unable to complete the format" WinXP sees the drive as FAT and unknown capacity but in DOS the file system is RAW as the partition was deleted by WinXP partition manager. If nobody knows the number of tracks & sectors for a 128Mb drive then do they know if there a tool available (DOS or WinXP) that allows you to re-format a USB flash drive. I cannot find one anywhere and in the good old days this would have been simple using FDisk as long as your BIOS supported USB drives.
Why MS decided to make partition manager only accessable on a new
installation is beyond me and do away with FDisk all together with WinXP.
TIA
Richard Elm
During a new install of WinXP Pro I deleted all partitions seen in WinXP
partition manager which unfortunately included my 128Mb USB Flash Drive which
was still left plugged in after collecting drivers etc prior to install. The
problem is now I have a flash drive which is RAW and WinXP cannot format it
and FDISK of course does not work with WinXP. When I try to format in DOS I get the message:-
"Cannot determine the number of sectors on this volume."
Can anyone tell me the number of Tracks and Sectors I should specify using
DOS Format for a 128Mb USB flash drive or point me in the right direction if
this is incorrect.
If I try to format the flash drive using WinXP I get the message "Windows was unable to complete the format" WinXP sees the drive as FAT and unknown capacity but in DOS the file system is RAW as the partition was deleted by WinXP partition manager. If nobody knows the number of tracks & sectors for a 128Mb drive then do they know if there a tool available (DOS or WinXP) that allows you to re-format a USB flash drive. I cannot find one anywhere and in the good old days this would have been simple using FDisk as long as your BIOS supported USB drives.
Why MS decided to make partition manager only accessable on a new
installation is beyond me and do away with FDisk all together with WinXP.
TIA
Richard Elm