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How to turn off the "you need to format the disk... do you want to format it?" message in Windows

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Possible Duplicate: How do I disable "you need to format this disk" message in Windows Vista/7? I have a USB drive. The entire device is encrypted with TrueCrypt. When I plug in the drive, Windows 7, understandably, doesn't realize the drive has a file system. So Windows always offers "You need to …

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Look at www.truecrypt.org/faq search for the question 'When I plug in my encrypted USB flash drive, Windows asks me if I want to format it. Is there a way to prevent that?' Edit 1 Ok. Quoting truecrypt faq: When I plug in my encrypted USB flash driv…

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