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  • Birthday 5/15/1987

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  1. dane523
    it was formatted as FAT32 when i received it. I have had a look on the manufacturers website and it just shows you a video guide to doing it using vista. I'll have another go formatting it when I get home in an hour or so.
  2. dane523
    Yeah that is what I have now been using, but in disk management it doesn't give me an option to format in FAT32? just NTFS and exFat?
  3. dane523
    It was formatted as FAT32 but then i reformatted it as NTFS, i have given up trying to partition it and have taken the above steps, but it still keeps saying it needs reformating. Due to the steps I have taken above I believe the MBR is faulty, anyway to permanently fix this?
  4. dane523
    Tina does your PC recognise either of the drives when it originally boots up. I have found that the message you are getting is usually to do with a faulty HDD, but this would not make sense for it to do it again with a brand new drive. Have you been using an official Vista Disk? If your BIOS cannot detect the hard drive then I would suggest that the new HDD is faulty also and that the Motherboard would be to blame (at a guess) I would suggest seeing if you can get a replacement on the new hard drive and then buying a new cheap motherboard to replace your current one. I know this would be above your skill level but I can link you to some step by step guides which make the process really easy.
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    Okay so i've recently bought a Kingston Data traveller 150 64GB. Unfortunately I decided i wanted to split it into 2 partitions of NTFS and FAT32 and so used O&O Partition Manager to format the driver and delete the partition. Ever since then everytime I insert the pen drive into my PC it tells me it needs to be formatted as it shows up in Disk Management as a RAW drive. I have used testdisk which allows me to write over the MBR and fix the boot sector, it then instructs me to restart my pc and the USB stick then works fine. However it won't allow me to safely remove the drive and if I restart my PC the stick again comes up that it needs reformatting. Can anyone help me come up with a permanent solution?
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