Sandisk Micro Cruzer

I have this Sandisk Micro Cruzer 8Gb and it always freezes my computer when i plug it in. Can anyone help me understand why this happens? I'm running Windows XP on my PC.

 

i take it you tried to format it

 

no i didnt, should i? how do i do that if it freezes right after i plug it in?

 

does it come in as a extra drive when you click on my computer EG:d,e,f,ect..
or can you not see it at all

 

yes it comes in as a seperate drive

 

ok i hope you have nothing important on it
when you see the drive, right click on it and go to where it says format and click on that do not do a quick format
you may have the option to change it from fat to fat32 or vice versa
just leave that for now
lets know how it goes

 

any luck?

 

ill let you know asap, thank you again, i hope this works.

 

no prob
maybe some body might be able to give you a different solution
like try in a diff comp and try to save data to that 1 then format ect...

 

still didnt work, had to reset computer from power button because of the freeze.

i cant even right click to format

 

when you connect it to computer does your whole screen freeze
or just the usb stick

 

everything freezes i can't click on anything. i can move the mouse but it has the hour glass icon, everything locks up. The cruzer blinks a red light also, not sure if that helps.

 

all i can think is try it in another comp/laptop