Cruzer Glide 64gb works fine on Windows 7 but not on XP

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I have a Cruzer Glide 64GB flash drive. It works fine if I plug it into a computer running Windows 7. But when I try to use it on a computer running Windows XP, I receive an error message telling me “The disk in drive X is not formated. Do you want to format now?”

I have tried the device on three computers running XP with the same result. I have tried it on two computers running Windows 7 and they both worked fine.

I have used flash drives on the XP machines with capacities up to 16GB without problems.

Is this a driver issue or is there something about XP that will not access larger flash drives.

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“is there something about XP that will not access larger flash drives.”

hmmmm  An interesting question.  But if the flash drives are FAT32 I don’t see why XP wouldn’t support it.  A BIOS limitation maybe?  Does XP’s Disk Management see the drives?

BTW According to this link XP can see large flash drives.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q314463 

But it can’t format them as FAT32…

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There is currently around 9GB of data on the drive.

On the XP computer, disk management shows the drive as healty with 59.62GB and 100% free space. The file system is blank.

On a Win 7 computer, disk management shows the drive as healty with 59.62GB and 84% free space. The file system is ExFAT.

The access error that I mentioned occurs when attempting read or write to the drive.

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Apparently someone reformated the drive.  XP doesn’t have support for ExFAT.  There is a Windows patch that adds it though.  I don’t remember it’s name/number, you will have to do a seach of the 'net for it’s URL.

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Thank you for the information. I found the patch and it resolved my problem. For any others with a similar problem here is the link: 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19364

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Thanks for the link!  That XP patch worked for me, too.

I did have to uninstall the driver for the Cruzer drive, also.

One odd thing-- it now appears as two separate drives-- a regular “removable storage” drive that has 59GB of memory, and one “Secure Digital Storage Device” that has 1.83GB of memory.

Does anyone know how to “combine” the two?

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I suspect you have a file on the Glide that is a secure/encrypted file that invokes the Secure Digital driver.  Do you see that in other pcs also?