I use my PA flash drive both at work (XP), home (vista), and school (vista). I have an autorun.inf file that just tells it to run portableapps.exe and gives it a new icon in Windows Explorer.
For some reason, every time I plug it in at home, it comes up that I need to format. But if I go into Windows Explorer I can still open and run anything (sans my fancy icon)
Any thoughts?
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Maybe run a chkdisk on it. Perhaps there are some bad blocks or something. Just a wild guess. Wouldn't really explain why it works on the other computers, but it's a good place to start I would summize.
Also virus scan it and your home computer.
There seems to be nothing wrong. That's what's so frustrating. It's more just annoying than a problem.
Nerdy Redneck
Sounds like a bad eject to me. The computer thinks that the drive is "suspect" and wants to "fix" it for you.
You might want to look at some of the Nirsoft utilities to clean out the USB table on your home computer and let it see the drive as "new".
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
What filesystem is the drive formatted in (ie: FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, etc...). If NTFS, might be a version of the format that xp can't read (not likely though) If exFAT, only Vista and up can read/write that one.