So here’s a really annoying problem: you plug a USB stick or USB SD card reader into your PC and Windows tells you that it needs to format the drive in order to use it properly! The only problem is that two days ago you didn’t have this problem and everything was connected fine! So what’s the solution?
How to Fix You need to format the disk before you can use it
Windows is a strange system and if some of your system files get corrupted, you may be faced with the annoying problem of having to reformat all your USB sticks and SD cards!
Most of the time, that's not an option. If you can plug the device into another system where it loads without any problems, why format it?
Luckily, there are a few things you can do to get rid of the problem. In this article, I will try to walk you through the different actions you can take to fix this problem.
