@jmarshall16 wrote:
Hi, I’ve been sent a Cruzer Blade by a friend from france with hundreds of photographs from my travels. Since recieving the USB I’ve been notified by my computer that the disk needs to be formatted before I can see the files.
Will this format delete the photos on the USB? And if so, is there any software I can download that will let me see the photos?
A couple possibilities . . .
1.) If your friend (and the flash drive) are from France and you’re in the US, the drive might have been formatted differently from what your system can read.
2.) If this was sent to you in the mail, the drive probably went through security screening (maybe several places) along the way and possibly through automated sorting machinery which could have rendered it inoperable. It’s happened to me with a simple micro SD card before. Flash drives are much more fragile and susceptible to damage.
