Hi Sue, I would guess the problem was not caused by you. Not using safe removal, should at the worst just corrupt a file or two. I can think of a few possible causes, but first can you tell me what hardware, and operating system you have, and what brand is the flash drive? Les Hardy On 10/02/12 03:06, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi list, > > Can anyone help me? > > I got a new flash drive 4 GB. I have been adding genealogy to it. > Tonight I plug it in to access some information and it tells me "it > has not been formatted." I cannot get past that. If it needed to be > formatted why was I not told this when I first plugged it in ? It is > the same computer. > Sue > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. > > Remember to SNIP when replying. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >