How to stop "you need to format the disk in drive" message?

dictum · 3 Weeks Ago

How do I stop the "you need to format the disk in drive before you can use it" box from popping up?

Obviously it is a special disk not managed by Windows.

Samuria · 3 Weeks Ago

Is it a new disk or one used with data on it. If it's new it can't be used until it's formatted. If it's used you will need to use recovery

Callender · 3 Weeks Ago

I get that message if the drive is encrypted. Just ignore it if that's the case.

alphanumeric · 3 Weeks Ago

I would also like to disable it, as I also find it annoying. They pop up and won't go away until you close them manually. I get them when I plug in an SD Card that is setup to be used on my Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer's. They have Linux Partitions on them. I get two warnings for the one SD Card. If I image two or three cards I have a half dozen needs to formatted windows to close.

It's not the end of the world, but it does get annoying.

Callender · 3 Weeks Ago

I find this information. Apparently (I have not tested this) you can use an AutoHotkey script:

Code:

Loop {
  WinWait, Microsoft Windows ahk_class #32770, Format Disk
  WinClose
}

That should watch for a window with a "Format Disk" button and automatically close it.

If anyone knows how to compile the AHK script for testing then please post it.

dictum · 3 Weeks Ago

It's an encrypted volume.

dalchina · 3 Weeks Ago

Callender said:

I find this information. Apparently (I have not tested this) you can use an AutoHotkey script:

Code:

Loop {
  WinWait, Microsoft Windows ahk_class #32770, Format Disk
  WinClose
}

That should watch for a window with a "Format Disk" button and automatically close it.

If anyone knows how to compile the AHK script for testing then please post it.

If you have Autohotkey installed, you can simply place the script in a file xyz.ahk and run that.

To generate a .exe file, simply rt click the .ahk file, and click 'Compile'.

dalchina · 3 Weeks Ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/VeraCrypt/c...ws_saying_you/

- the basic idea is to change the partition ID.

dictum · 2 Weeks Ago

This will only change it for that specific computer only. If you want it to be system-agnostic, use diskpart and change partition ID to something like OEM partition. Warning: diskpart is a dangerous piece of software and typing something wrong will destroy your data.

Specifics? The partition is in raw format so there is no drive letter or anything.

there is a method here but I don't want the new value to conflict with anything else. Why would changing from 0x07NTFS to 0x0B FAT32 make the error go away?

The other factor is, I don't want to go to an older FAT32 format but want to keep it in the NTFS format.

How to Change Partition Type ID Easily? (2 Ways Included)

Berton · 2 Weeks Ago

FAT32 has a limit of 32GB and in turn that has a single-file size limit of 4GB. All the USB Thumb/Flash drives I've worked with up to 256GB have come factory-formatted as FAT32. A choice for Windows is exFAT and NTFS for larger drives. I use the GPARTED program on my Linux computer to clean and restore the formatting which can do much larger drives as FAT32. Memory cards used in cameras should be formatted in the camera, sometimes has issues with computer-formatting. Plugging in a drive formatted by any of the versions that Linux can do such as ext4 or done in a Mac OS X will prompt the message in a Windows computer.