Symptoms:
- When plugged in in XP it would show up in My Computer but when you click on it it would say 'Drive not initialized'
- Right click Format fails
- In XP Disk Management it does not show the drive size or allow you to initialize it
- When plugged into Windows 7 it appears in Disk Management but same as with XP you are unable to do anything but change drive letters and path
- when formatting from cmd you receive:
C:\Windows\system32>format j:
Code:
Insert new disk for drive J:
and press ENTER when ready...
Cannot open volume for direct access.
C:\Windows\system32>dir j:
The device is not ready.Troubleshooting
- I downloaded the HP USB Disk Key application when attempting to use this you get a:
Code:
C:\DriveKey>hpusbf j:
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, Version 1.00.012 (11/13/2003)
Copyright (c) 2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
The type of the current file system is RAW.
WARNING! ALL DATA ON THE DRIVE J: (Generic USB Flash Disk 7.76) WILL BE LOST!
Are you really sure that you want to proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
***ERROR*** IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY: The device is not ready.- Using this tool I was able to run a "Repair drive & erase all data"
- This appears to have resolved the problem
Since I couldn't find any info around the internets on this -- I figured I should post it somewhere