Connect the external USB drive to your computer and launch the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. It's a good idea to disconnect all other external drives from the computer so you won't accidentally ...

Recommended free tools are FormatUSB or HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. USB sticks are still often used today as portable data media. However, errors can sometimes mean that you can only use them ...

I tried to reformat my USB drive with HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, but it says that there is no media in the specified device. It doesn’t even display total size and the free size of the USB.

I ended up using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool to format the 8GB USB stick with NTFS and then used USB_MultiBoot_9 to make the stick bootable and copy over the XP install files.