Try using HP's own formatting tool for USB drives. If it doesn't work then, suspect a bad drive. Have you tried it on another system? Also, if you have some sort of USB firewall protection, allow that drive/port to be active.
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I tried to reformat my 4gb Thumb / Flash USB2 drive stick on Windows XP.
Windows no longer recognizes the drive.
I get an acknowledgment beep when it is first inserted but it doesn't show under my computer. I can't seem to get it to work w/add hardware
I may have tried to reformat it to a different format at the time.
How can I remedy this or is it shot?

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