formatted drive reports it "needs to be formatted"

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I have an Extreme 240 SATA drive that I am using as an external drive using a USB 3.0 connection. The drive connects and works fine when connected to a Win 7, Win 8, and Mac system. But when I connect it to my WinXP system it gets recognized and assigned a drive letter but reports it “needs to be formatted” and is unreadable.

Any ideas and solutions to this problem?

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what file system is the drive formatted in? it sounds like you are using exFAT. there is a patch that would need to be installed on the XP machine for exFAT support. 

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Thanks drlucky I think you may be right. The drive was formatted by an Atomos Ninja2 HD recorder and the manual said it formats in exFAT and FAT32. I’ll do a search but do you know where I can get the WinXP exFAT patch?

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@user10 wrote:

where I can get the WinXP exFAT patch?

From the MicroSoft support page here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955704