Formatting a USB

very unlikely it needs to be formatted. yopu havent formatted it have you?

i may be wrong, but is sky recorded stuff copyrighted? ie they encrypt stuff you record so you cant transfer or watch it on a pc? i dont have sky, but i seem to think i read that somewhere.

It wouldn't work Bob and now it won't work at all and needs formatting...whatever that means in English

yeah but i have one that always says it needs formatting, when i know for a fact it doesnt. ive googled and it happens to a lot of people. theres obviously some kind of bug somewhere with windows. if i leave it for a about 20 seconds it works, then i have to click cancel on about 10 "do you want to format this drive?" messages

there must be a way round it, but i havent figured it out yet. all i know for certain, is it doesnt need formatting. theres nothing wrong with the drive at all.

Thanks Bob...but that still renders it useless at the moment

well mine works after i wait a bit. then click cancel about 10 times.

but obviously if youve actually clicked on format then its gonna have tried to format it, ie wipe the lot off.

I think we're both gonna have to wait for a techno-geek to come along with a few options for us but he probably won't now after calling him that