USB flash drive gets not formatted error

I have WinXP SP2. Just recently started getting an error whenever I install
any USB flash drive. The drives get the USB Mass Storage Driver installed
and get a drive letter. But Windows Explorer cannot open the drive. An
error window opens stating "The disk in drive X is not formatted. Do you
want to format it now?" I can use the flash drives successfully on other XP
systems so the problem must be with my system.

I removed the usbstor.sys driver, rebooted, and the new copy of the driver
did not fix the problem.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

[Happirock]

I had the same problem. The only solution was to format the flash drive with NTFS and not FAT32. The info on the drive will be lost.

I am still having problems with my other USB drives and devices. My Western Digital 320MB USB drive gets the "Disk not formatted" error as does my digital camera. The camera's memory card can be formatted to NTFS by my computer except the camera will not recognize it. The camera will format it except I think it is FAT32 and then my computer will not read it.
Hope this helps.

[my_hard_thing]

i too hav the same problem with my usb drive.i used to have a 4gb pendrive ,and now its corrupted.since then what ever the pendrive or my memory card reader inserted to my usb drive,the drive is accessing with the name of the pendrive which i used it before.and also getting the error message saying that usb is not formatted do u want to format it now or not??iam using windows sp2 and i reinstalled my usb drivers,rebooted.but still getting the same proble.plz help me

[Happirock]

The only way it worked for me was using and NTFS format on the USB drive. The procedure for formating is at: http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm
YOU WILL LOOSE ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE.
Happirock