It doesn’t work for the drives that use the FAT32 or exFAT file system. You can format your drive in the NTFS format to make it compatible with this feature.

In my experience NTFS Is more robust and I format all USB drives for Windows in NTFS. Linux can read and write NTFS (you may need to install ntfs-3g for writing).

A friend of mine asked me to fix his USB flash drive. It's an HP 4GB drive. My notebook is running Windows 7 64-bit. When I connected the drive to my computer, Windows installed the drivers but it ...