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    Windows wont open usb drives / sd cards any more, keeps telling me to format them :(

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by james_uk, Oct 19, 2014.

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    james_uk Notebook Guru

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    Can anyone please help, up until recently my laptop was fine and i know ive opened files up a few weeks ago, now my laptop isn't opening anything i attach.

    i have a card reader, every time i put my sd card in my laptop says i need to format this drive, and when i try to it says windows is unable to format it. I have just got a new camera and was about to throw the card away thinking it was bust and then thought i will try a few other cards as well as a usb stick, and they are all saying the same thing.

    i have tried going through disk management and deleting the partition then trying to make it again thinking or may have been that originally, it says it does it all but when i get to the formatting it then says it cant.

    the drive is visible in my computer but shows as no space, and when i try and go into it, it just tells me to format it.

    the card does work fine in the camera as well.

    Can anyone help my fix this?

    thanks

    James
     
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    james_uk Notebook Guru

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    Lol i have sorted it, can't believe what it was tbh, i was trying all kinda and nothing was working, i then restarted my laptop, i hadn't previously because i had downloads still running.
    anyway i did notice when restarting it said installing x amount of updates, when my laptop booted back up everything was back to normal.
    I usually think im ok at sorting most problems but this one shouldn't have made me have to ask on here lol
    thanks anyway
    james
     
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