Can't Format USB Drive in Windows 10
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- So you want to know how to fix "Windows Was Unable to Complete the Formatting of USB Pen Drive" this is a common error and I will show you how to fix and resolve the USB Flash Drive problem. Now there is many reasons you can't format USB Drive in Windows 10 or Windows 11. It can be related to a faulty USB drive, Malware or the USB drive is RAW or Corrupt. I will show you step by step guide of solving the USB problem.
1. Open Command Prompt and run as Administrator
2. Type: diskpart in the command prompt window
3. Next type: list disk
4. Now, select the correct disk by typing: select disk 2 (your drive number)
5. Now type: attributes disk clear readonly
6. Next type: clean
7. Now we need to type: create partition primary
8. Then type: format fs=ntfs quick or format fs=fat32 quick ("quick" does quick format)
9. type exit
10. Now type: chkdsk e: /f /r /x (e: is my drive letter)
1. Scan USB drive will antivirus program.
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One question does this same method work with a HDD or just thumb drive?
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Both.
@@evanray8413 thank you! I figured but I was just double checking. The title threw me for a loop, but then I thought well HDD can be used as external USB drive. Duh, lol.
Hey, Hi there.
When I tried to create the partition, the ststem told me there's no space for the operation
Hi, in my case, it says 0 percent completed when I hit enter after format fs+ntfs quick. Why is this so? is there a solution for this?
Still saving lives 2 years after the original upload, thanks man
This has solved a real headache of a problem I was having with a USB stick. Lesson learned that you can't always easily swap a USB stick between Windows NTFS & Linux EXT4 filing systems. The memory stick worked perfectly fine in Linux even with NTFS, but Windows just wouldn't mount it or even format it when I tried. Third party software seemed to be able to format it, but the problem appeared to be I couldn't get the USB to take a letter - hence without a path, Windows won't mount it for access.
DiskPart wouldn't even clear it - your attributes command must have done something to allow everything to start working again. Nightmare nearly over now haha, thank you sir!
can u explain me in detail what to do
I can't thank you enough for this vid. I was able to fix my acer computer by using this method to format my internal hard drive. I just had to delete all the partitions and format the full unallocated space using diskpart and follow your instructions which were very well done and easy to follow and see. All I had to do after doing that was change it to GPT and I was able to install a fresh Windows 10 OS. Cheers. I've been trying to fix this thing for over a year and if not for finding your vid I would have given up. So you saved me large bud, thank-you.
I had a pendrive which was used on MacOS and the disk manager wouldn't format it or give it a letter. Then I found this video and with the command prompt inputs it worked like a charm. Thanks dude!
This is perfect!! I've been searching for an hour for this walkthrough. Thanks!!
That was so seamless and straightforward your steps, thank you 🙏🏻
thank you Brian, been coming for years for every screw up i did to my pc, cant believe its now my flash drive, followed step by step and fixed it perfectly, thanks again.
Thanks Brian that is really useful. It is interesting to see examples of windows tasks that need to be done from the terminal.
thanks a lot, the only person who actually helped with a working instruction guide. I thought i fried my usb stick or something
Damn after watching 25 videos, I have finally found video that solved my problem. Literally I was so fed up that I was gonna crush my usb.
Thanks to you I have my first working USB! Cause I was never good at this kinda stuff and was so confused why it wouldn't format.
Great video! Your clear and concise information helped me very well. Thank you!
Awesome! I love it when you show and instruct us on how to properly use the command prompt.
I am somewhat familiar with this from the old DOS days, but could not remember all the commands. That's how I first learned computers. The command prompt is very useful but sometimes scary.
That's one of the reasons why I love it when you do these videos on it. Way too many commands for me to remember. But still it's kinda fun to do.
Thank you Brian.
You're very welcome!
Thanks man I can't express how grateful I am for this tutorial
Thanks! You really made that so easy to follow. You're a Godsend. Thank you so very much.
Thanks for the donation 👍
I had this problem on Windoze 10, and this is too much work. I normally use Linux, so I put the USB drive in Linux and took care of it. Microsoft needs to fix this problem, because I got a feeling it is more common than we might think. Good video for anyone without a Linux computer.
Thanks you! This work great! I literally tried every other thing I could find on TH-cam before finally fixing the issue with your video.
I was using rufus to write this thumb drive and windows defender didnt like something, halted the operation and rendered the drive useless, providing no further info. This got it working again ! thank you thank you.
Thank you for this tutorial! I managed to format an Samsung EVO 8 used previously as system disk in an desktop computer, than as an USB drive. With windows disk management utility I had no options to format entire disk but thanks to your tutorial, it was very simple.👍
I spent hours looking for a solution... THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Litreally recovered a small batch of Sandisk 32GB drives this way. 🙏Thank you so much!
A relatively little known and forgotten shortcut feature of diskpart that has been in there since the days of NT is the fact you only need to type in enough of most commands and arguments that will uniquely identify them, in most cases the 1st 3 characters of most commands and arguments are enough eg:
lis dis
sel dis 2
att dis clear readonly
cle
cre par pri
ass letter=z
for quick
that is correct, I try and keep full commands so people learn easier
Thank you. You just save me some money and wish I had found you earlier. I've thrown away flash drives in the past because of the this problem.
very very good. Took me 5 minutes to solve this problem, after many hours of frustration
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It worked like a dream and rescued an unusable USB drive.
Thank you!!!! This video came in time to prevent me from throwing away a couple of "damaged" flash drives.
I love the content... keep them coming :-)
Thanks for watching
Me too.
I have tried all the other ways to fix my usb but I wasn't able to fix it. I tried the first method is this video and I was able to fix it in seconds! 👍 Thanks alot!
I thought my USB is a goner after I used it to download some file to fix my phone, but now it working again, thank you very much 💕
This also worked on a faulty USB stick. But did full format, it took a while but now works great thanks.
This is the only video that worked for me. Thank you so much.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Worked perfectly! Great guide
Thank you!!! you really helped me my problem was "This disk is write protected" I tried other solutions on google and youtube, but non of them worked, but your method is works really well.
I went through so many videos and all of them were missing the part where you enter "format fs=fat32 quick" thanks for the video as my USB had many issues after installing the Zorin boot media
Lovely, I don't regretting clicking on your vidoe, almost gave up on the 1st video I came across when a gent stated it's corrupted or unretrievable. Clearly you know your stuff!
How can you remember so much of the commands in rectifying problems, I'm in awe of your knowledge, keep up the good work, your videos are very helpful. 👍 😎
This was a life saver man, thank you so much. I accidently cleared usb thinking it was a hdd drive 😆
hahah same sh!t bro i instaling widnows 10 and i choice wrong disk :D ,but this man is genious!
Was just having this problem, and your Video Came right on time. Thnx
Glad it helped
Thank you that was really helpful and informational.
You are so welcome!
Thank you! Fixed my USB perfectly!
Thank you sir this helped me recover my old USB! 👍
Glad I could help
you deserve an award! Thank you so much!!!!!!
Much thanks Brian. I have a couple that need to be fixed. 👍
Glad to help
Dear Britec09, I am unable to go beyond "Clean", since the error says "DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
See the System Event Log for more information." Kindly help
same lol still no fix on it ?
thank you, I was going to buy a new usb memory stick but you saved the day
Wow! Brain Its been 1 year and 1 million views since you did "How to fix USB drive not recognized in Windows 10"
Its crazy how they tried to kill DOS but you can still do the Dos style commands in windows 11 decades later 🤓👍🏻
I should of probably titled it windows11 because am on Windows 11, but its the same thing really
I was struggling man u are the best this video get five stars it was really helpful thanks ❤️
Excellent, I could not format a thumb drive after making it multi-bootable. This fixed it!
Glad it helped!
Thank you a 1000 times. I tried it all, only your solution worked
Thanks for the tutorial. Worked like a champ. At the end, you checked the freshly cleaned, partitioned, and formatted drive for "viruses." Where might a virus reside on that drive, at this point?
Britec is the best. Every tutorial I have watched in this channel has never failed.
Still following you guys since 2017. I just subbed here with my other account. Thanks again men. You are a genius
Very helpful USB Drive Fix/Test video, thank you.
thanks my dude, in my case it initiated formatting but could never be completed. i just waited for it to finish like a moron till I found this video.
THANK YOU!! This worked for me. I had been trying for the past 3 days to figure out want was wrong and your video popped up as a suggestion.
Thank you, this was also very helpful.
This is great. I have been meaning to learn more commands in diskpart besides select disk and clean. Thanks for lighting a fire under my ass and showing how to format with it 🤙
your videos are honestly legendary, by far my favourite tech support youtuber on this platform
The only video that actually fixed my issue.
Your solution worked. Thank you so much. I thought my usb has hardware problem.
Thank you so much you saved my usb we both thank you for saving his life👍
Thank you, this is actually saved my SD! Worked perfectly..
Thanks i was ready to put my 64GB stick in the bin, but you saved it Thankyou very much...
wonderful, I thought my usb is gone but I tried this method and worked. :-) Thanks
Thank you! Really helpful
"Attributes disk clear readonly"-trick worked for me. Thanks :) I could format via windows GUI after that was done
thank you so much, finally i was able to format my usb
Thank you so much for this video, I managed to restore 3 non functional USB sticks just by formatting them and than using this tutorial, nothing else worked for me
You are welcome!
This is by far the best help with this issue!🎉
Wow Thanks a lot man. Still now working. This is the real content.
you just saves my USB 3.1`s life thank you sir
Thank you, it was very useful.. Please keep making such videos
Holy.. someone actually knows what he's talking about. It took me 3 articles, 5-6 videos on TH-cam and all of them didn't fix my issue.
Thank you @Britec09 your method actually saved my USB!
Thanks! an excellent tutorial :) The pen drive was fixed
Thank you. Just what I needed
thank you this is the only video that worked. THANK YOU SO MUCH👍
Excellent video, thanks for the guide. Worked like a charm.
BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Great Tutorial! Thank you lots!
Thankz for the wonderfull video. Solved my problem. Liked & subscribed. 😊
After i write "clean" and run it says this error - DiskPart has encountered an error: G/C The request could not be executed due to a device problem.
See the System Event Log for more information.
what should i do
try a different format. Mine failed on fat 32 but worked on ntfs.
Thanx for that. I haven't come across this issue but have bookmarked this video. Could you have done this from the Windows Disk manager??
This was so helpful to me, thank you
this helped. I formatted it in the usual way, but it wasn't letting me 'shrink volume' (to create a second partition?) but after following the vid it let me do it. thx
Thank You, you saved my 64g flash drive. I really thought it was done/fried.
Just a quick question about the partition I’ll use for a Linux install…should the partition be formatted as Fat32 or NTFS? I’m going to be installing Zorin 16 after I saw your excellent vid the other day and want to do some practicing on this OS.
USB drive can be either Fat32 or NTFS
@@Britec09 but if I’m installing on a hard drive, does it matter which format? Fat32 or NTFS?
@@Britec09 well, I went and done it, now running dual boot with Win10 and Zorin 16, absolutely no problem and running like a boss. Beautiful OS and just “discovering” it slowly.
Thank you very much with this video i saved a usb drive.
Glad I could help. Don't forget hit the subscribe button. I appreciate it. Thanks!
Thanks alot, you made my day. the error is fixed perfectly
Thankyou for saving me loads of trouble. Did it and it works.
thank you so much it was the only video that worked
Fantastic! I've tried dos commands and did not work. Added "Clean" and "create primary" to my steps and it worked!!! Thanks Britec09!!
I gave up though i need a new USB drive this video fix my drive and it 100% works
Thank you so much for helping us this situation thankyou so much we love you
Worked well .
Thankyou so much !
That worked. Thanks for walking me through that.
Glad to hear it
Thank you, it was very useful.. Please keep making such videos
You have a thousand likes
My flash problem has been solved
Oh man the cmd method works perfectly thank you
Thank you for this, saved my 128gb usb! Earned a sub.
thank you so much brother... you saved my 2 64gig usb's
You are a life saver brother.
Thanks a lot. This really help me.