Hi Peeps,


I would be mighty grateful to anyone who can solve this problem. In brief I appear to have a fault (not sure if hardware or software at this point) which prevents me from using the most handy device of all - the usb thumb drive.

When I put a thumb drive into a port on my windows 7 machine it:

(a) takes about 1 minute before the computer gives any indication that its been plugged in and then;
(b) a dialog box appears saying "You need to format the disk in drive j: before you can use it"

Now there is nothing wrong with the usb drives. I have tried more than one, and they all work fine in other computers.

But I cant see what in windows I can do to fix this? and its driving me nuts.

Anyone?

Cheers

-Al