Cruzer 2GB formatted on Snow Leopard won't mount on Windows XP/SP3

Hi.
I needed a flash drive yesterday. I found this 2GB stick for $10 at Walmart, brought it home, formatted it in disk utility as a FAT-32 using erase option without zeroing. I tried to transfer files to a friend in Windows XP as soon as I had completed the copy by drag-n-drop. When we tried to plug into any USB2.0 port on any one of his 4 windows boxes, the drive was not recognized by any of the flavors: XP/2000. However, I could again mount the drive as FAT-32 on my Mac. Is this a known issue?
My configuration is: Mac Book Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 10.6.2 (10C540). The flash drive is model SDCZ6-2048RB BE0908NOTB. I chatted with Sandisk's tech and he verified the procedure I used was correct. He was not aware of any issue. My guess is that this is simply not a tested match-up with this drive in 10.6.2. I have had no other USB/windows issues on Leopard, however.
-Paul

In Disk Utility, under the partition tab, click options, and select Master Boot Record, then make sure FAT32 is selected and click apply Snow Leopard defaults to GUID Partition Table, whereas the previous versions of OS X left the partition map scheme unchanged when formatting. I don't know if apple knows of this issue.

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That error is the HDD cooling fan I believe.
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Carolyn,
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rkaufmann87 wrote:
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Formulate this.
I have a brand new Dell E6420 notebook that came with Winidows 7. If I wanted to I could install Windows XP or Vista on it. Would I need SOME drivers after the install? Yes I would. Would the system run without those drivers being installe? Yes it would. But it would still install and run.
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