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Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 2:33 am
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Posted by Alan Masterman (294 messages posted)

It is possible that this is a Sony annoyance rather than a true Win2k annoyance... but I have a Sony Vaio 2GB memory stick which is currently formatted FAT32. I'd like to change the file system to NTFS, but when the format progress bar reaches the end there is a pause of five or six seconds and I then get the message "Windows could not complete the format".

I've tried running the Convert command at the DOS prompt; but in that case, I get the message "Cannot create the elementary file structures".

Any ideas anyone?

Responses to this message:
re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (DEX: Monday, July 14, 2008 at 8:32 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (C K: Monday, July 14, 2008 at 1:59 pm)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (Alan Masterman: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 12:33 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (Alan Masterman: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 5:28 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (Alan Masterman: Mon, Jul 14, 2008, 2:33 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (DEX: Mon, Jul 14, 2008, 8:32 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (C K: Mon, Jul 14, 2008, 1:59 pm)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (Alan Masterman: Tue, Jul 15, 2008, 1:51 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (Alan Masterman: Tue, Jul 15, 2008, 12:33 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (C K: Tue, Jul 15, 2008, 4:47 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (Alan Masterman: Tue, Jul 15, 2008, 8:17 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (C K: Tue, Jul 15, 2008, 9:43 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (Alan Masterman: Tue, Jul 15, 2008, 5:28 am)

re: Cannot format Sony memory stick as NTFS (geek9pm: Thu, Jul 24, 2008, 2:01 pm)

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