[mark_roberts]

My wife has a pen drive she uses in work on microsoft office/windows XP.

She trys to use in it the laptop which is windows Vista.

Gets a warning disc must be formatted.  If she clicks yes if tells her all work on the drive may be lost which is not what she wants.

Then trys it in a desktop with windows XP and gets the same message.  The drive has been used on this computer before.

Any ideas?

She dosent want to loss the work.

thanks
Mark

[ag]

Hi Mark

whats a pen drive? do you mean a USB key? in the olden days some floppys did have to be formatted, but it must be  a pretty old PC if she is using one. Is it?

[Mark Stanley]

Save work to a folder.

Then format.

This will rectify the problem.

This cross platform / computer error is quite common.

Regards
Mark

[mark_roberts]

Pen drive or flash drive or what ever name you like.

Its with a specialist now.  Doesnt look good though.

Lesson for today is always back up your work.

Mark

[sohoit]

I would just like to add to this discussion if i may.  A common cause of this is when the drive/pen is removed from the computer without first stopping the usb hardware [this is normally displayed in the system tray on the bottom right of the screen.]