Window is unable to format my pen drive.

Hello Srinivas.

youre pen-drive "MUST" be formatted with " FAT32 " data system.
win XP "can`t read the NTFS format of win7."
(means also HDD`s to connect them with USB)

this works also for DVD and BR - players if they wont read an USB device.

Greet`s
Gue.

insert it again and try to format it quick ..and change the allocation unit size...and also make sure that it is Fat 32 not NTFS ..

just fomat it by winxp booteble CD

You have problems.

It is possible to to use a Pen Drive/ Flash drive to load windows XP, but the process is never 100% reliable. You need to have the actual equivalent of the XP system disk, or boot disk, on your pen drive. Even then your system may not recognise the pen drive as a system disk. It works for some but not not for others. If you have your original XP disks, try loading it on the pen drive via another PC. It works best if the pen drive is formatted to NTFS, but may still work on FAT32 format. 2Gb pen is a general good size. Trial and error.

There is reportedly an XP Lite version that is more suited to this, but I am not clear on the details or legalities..

Your only real sensible option is to replace the CDROM. You may wish to upgrade to DVDRAM Drive for a few cents more.

Hi,
You can try to format the mp3 player.
Go through: Setting>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk management>
Try to format it with fat files system.
hope this help you
Regards
uttam

These are the tech specifications of your pen drive which includes write protection micro S/D switch. So search it and make it read and write
USB 1.1 compliant and 2.0 compatible,
True Plug and Play for hot swap function
Maximum Transfer speed of 1.5MB (12M bit) per second at full speed
Powered directly via the USB port.
No external power or battery needed.
Operating Systems Supported: No driver required for Windows Me/2000/XP, Mac OS 9.0 or later, or Linux kernel 2.4 or later.Only Windows 98SE needs the provided drive
Write-Protect Function: Write-protect switch Security Function: Password protection available via supplied software (Windows environment only) Boot-Up
Function: Makes JetFlash a MS-DOS Boot Disk LED: Flashing LED indicates
Data Traffic Specifications : Size: 75mm X 11mm X 25mm (L x W x H)
Weight: 15g Data Retention: Up to 10 years Shock Resistance: 1000G (maximum) Erase Cycles: 1,000,000 times Speed: Read 9.0 Mbyte/s, Write 8.0 Mbyte/s (Max.) Certificate: FCC, CE,
BSMI System Requirements: Win 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP, Linux Kernel 2.4 and above, Mac OS 8.6 or later

Far too often these little things have an almost invisible read/write protect button on them. Look carefully, over the entire surface of the USB Flash Drive. You might have this switch turned to Write Protect, which means there is nothing you can do, until you turn it the other way, and allow the device to be written to.

Cheers!
-a.

XP has a stupid feature like that. If you did format with the XP style, try to do it manually.

My computer > Locate your usb pendrive >Rightclick and Format.

If this don't work, your pendrive might just be malfunctioning. Replace it if you can, or upgrade to external harddrive.

Is the other pcs windows xp or the files could be in a format that the other pc have not got instaled

1. Download this tool:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4040651/LLFTOOL.EXE

2. Format

(WARNING: After running this low level format tool,
the whole USB flash disk surface will be fully erased.
Therefore, data restoration will be impossible after using this utility!)