zip drive keeps telling me that the floppy disk needs to be formatted

Desktop Drives typically require a power adapter. Try using the drive on a different computer.If possible, try using a different cable.

Try connecting the drive to a different port on the computer.

If your external hard drive is not accessible please try these basic troubleshooting steps first. The external hard drive itself, under normal circumstances, should be detected by your operating system, without the need of drivers, software or firmware updates. While it is possible that your external hard drive may have come with bundled software that may be incompatible with newer operating systems, this is typically just ‘back up’ software, and the drive is not dependent on that software to function.

The WIM file for WINDOWS 1 are TOO LARGE for FAT32.There are several reasons why an external hard drive may not be accessible or detected when you connect it to your computer. You can use exFAT or NTFS on newer models, however older systems are NOT able to boot from external boot media using NTFS.įor these models it cannot be exfat and larger than 32 gigs or usb 3.X drive. This means that past 1803 the WIM file is TOO LARGE for a FAT32 flash drive. This means that you cannot copy a file that is larger than 4 GB to any plain-FAT volume.

The 4 GB barrier is a hard limit of FAT32: the file system uses a 32-bit field to store the file size in bytes, and 2^32 bytes = 4 GB (actually, the real limit is 4 GB minus one byte, or 4,294,967,295 bytes, because you can have files of zero length). It also means that ISO must be burned to DUAL Layer DVD media because the base installer is no longer smaller than 4.7 gigs. This is why I recommend using USB 2.0 optical drive and OEM system builder DVD for reinstall.

The media must be at least 16 gigs and not larger than 32 gigs and USB 2.0.

Zip drive keeps telling me that the floppy disk needs to be formatted