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mattbatt

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Sep 7, 2006
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I had a previous post here talking about my problems with my Sandisk Cruzer Titanium 512 mb flash drive (older, no U3). It has been formatted fat32 for 3 years, worked fine between mac and PC, then I added a 1TB maxtor to my G5, and it stopped recognizing my flash drive.

SO, I finally said, ok, reformat. Here is the problem: first, I noticed disk utilities showing my drive as only a 247 MB drive and second, upon reformatting, I got the spinning ball of death. I tried other formats instead of MS-Dos fat 32 but it froze on all. So now it is somewhere between a semi-formatted drive and an unrecognizable drive. Great.

Now, I have taken my flash drive to my work PC to try and format as fat32. First, it only allows me to choose a size of 247 MB and second, this computer also won't format, saying an error occurred.

Now what? Any software, any manual overrides? I know the drive works fine.

Thanks guys!
 
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