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Help With Traveldrive
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JMan09
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Jan 26, 2008, 08:50 PM
 
I have a Memorex Mini 2GB Traveldrive. I've had this for a while but recently it seemed slow when transferring documents and thing, so I reformatted it with Disk Utility. It seems faster now, but I tried using it on my friends laptop running Windows Vista and it says it doesn't recognize it and needs to format. Is there a way to reformat this again to be used on both platforms because I need for school also.
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Jan 26, 2008, 08:51 PM
 
Format it for FAT32. It sounds like you have it formatted for HFS rightnow, which is Mac only.
     
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Jan 27, 2008, 09:50 PM
 
Ok, I went back to disk utility to try to format it for FAT32, but I don't see how to do it. Any help on how would be appreciated.
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Jan 28, 2008, 11:15 AM
 
In disk utility, select MS-DOS as the format when you Erase.
     
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Jan 28, 2008, 12:14 PM
 
Thanks, thats what I was thinking, but didn't know for sure.
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