How do you open a file on a sandisk flash drive that shows the error message 'Unrecognized format'?

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Well, you can't. Not like that anyway. You need to find out what the file type is and then download a program to open it. Do a search online for the file type. If it's something like Microsoft Word, you can download a viewer and don't necessarily have to download the program.

I'm assuming you mean that the file is unrecognizable. If its the flash drive you need to download drivers for it or you may be using a drive not compatible with an older (Win 98 for example) computer.

~ TTry reinstalling it again

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