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"Need to format the USB Flash drive" message... can the data be recovered
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I have a USB flash drive, that when plugged into any machine (XP, Vista or Windows 7) the following message is displayed: Indeed looking at the drive in Disk Managment the file system is recognized as RAW. This USB key was previously working on several different XP machines and has not been used on…
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Fix for: "Need to format the USB Flash drive" message... can the data be recovered
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I'd recommend running test disk over it to see if you can recover the partition table I linked to some instructions for it in this question Partition table corrupted (USB flash drive)
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