To partition and format your USB drives I suggest Acronis Tru Image Home. I bought it to clone my C:drive to USB hard drives. I find it very user friendly and it quickly and easily creates and formats USB drives with a file system of your choice, NTFS, Fat32, Fat16, and others. I have version 11 which runs in Vista/2000/XP. I'm using it in Vista. An earlier version runs in Win 98. I format the USB drives Fat32 so I can use them with ny computer Win98 thru Vista.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jdobster <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jul 15, 2008 1:02 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Drive format
>
>Thanks for the info on the assignment of drive letters to a USB drive that
>shows on Device Manager.  I mis-spoke about the drive appearing in
>Dish management. It is only on listing of devices on Device manager.
>
>On dish management,  only shown are  my drive C and the cd rom drive.
>Have no place to work on the USB drive. I need to format or partition
>but how? Tried unstall and reinstall. Nothing different.   XP Pro.Sp2
>
>Thanks
>
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