Windows was Unable to Complete the Format –USB Drive

sparksspace | Monday, November 02, 2009 | 48 comments

When you tried to format your USB drive, you may get  an error “Windows was unable to complete the format .”

 

 

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To format your USB drive try the following methods

 

Method 1

  • Open cmd.
  • Start>Run>cmd and format your USB drive. or win-key+R.
    for ex: If your USB drive  letter is J  
    C:\>format J:/q  Press Enter Key

  Method 2

  • Insert one of the drives
  • click start > control panel > Administrative tools(you need to be in classic mode) > Computer Management 
  • Or Click Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc in the Open: line and click OK.

    The Disk Management snap-in will open.

  • Under the Storage section, choose Disk Management
    You should see your USB drive listed here. It may not have a drive letter assigned.
  • Right click your USB drive and select Format

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  • Make sure the settings you want are selected, then click OK


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  • Close all windows, and select the 'safely remove hardware' icon in the system tray . Select your drive ,remove the drive for 30 seconds, then insert the drive again.

     

    Method 3

       

    USB Disk Storage Format Tool lets you format any USB stick with the desired file system.USB Disk Storage Format Tool views the USB stick like a normal disk drive and then formats the USB stick with the desired file system (FAT, FAT32, NTFS). With NTFS you can also squeeze out more storage, if you turn on the available data compression.

     

     108   USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.2.3 | Freeware | 36.7KB

     

     

    Method 4

     

    HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool will format any USB flash drive, with your choice of FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition types.

     

    Features

     

  • Allows creation of a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB.
  • Fixes installation issue where installation process stopped after the earlier version of software was uninstalled and the new software was not automatically installed. The installation process now restarts automatically to install the new software after uninstalling the older version.

     

     

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    All drives connected through the USB port of the computer is recognized and can be formatted using this software.This  Tool works with a wide variety of USB devices including many not manufactured by HP making it more or less an universal software tool to format an USB device.With this tool you can also create  a bootable USB Disk

     

    108   HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool v2.1.8  | Freeware | 1.59MB

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    48 comments:

    1. AnonymousNovember 20, 2009 at 1:59 AM

      plz tell me a password this link

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    2. sparksspaceDecember 1, 2009 at 6:02 AM

      Password: sparksspace

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    3. CoPRAMarch 22, 2011 at 10:51 PM

      Its coming failed to format the device

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    4. AnonymousJune 21, 2011 at 9:02 AM

      thqnks

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    5. AnonymousJuly 5, 2011 at 12:16 AM

      failed to format the device ... anyone who know more about this ... i think it's a read-only problem and a Bullshit.

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    6. AnonymousAugust 21, 2011 at 9:13 PM

      nothing works

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    7. noxSeptember 9, 2011 at 1:42 PM

      thank you so much sir, you save me from my bf's anger..hahaha..

      thanks for your help, i will surely apply this post of yours every time I will rcounter the same problem.. thank you so much.. i love u and god bless.. :)

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    8. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 7:17 PM

      Thank you very much.My 8GB pendrive got new life after 1 month.

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    9. krsnaOctober 16, 2011 at 3:15 PM

      the device is right protected
      the msg is comg...plzzz help.wat to do now?

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    10. RahulNovember 30, 2011 at 5:26 PM

      Thank you so much for giving this tools name ..............

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    11. raviDecember 8, 2011 at 9:48 PM

      thanks boss
      I was trying to take an ISO image of a bootable CD and make a bootable USB flash drive from it...but there was a power failure during format... and this tool HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool v2.1.8 helped to get my usb back

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    12. AnonymousDecember 12, 2011 at 4:23 PM

      Still not the format Did not complete Successfully

      please advice

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    13. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2012 at 1:22 PM

      tnx a lot my main man u rock!!!!!
      saved a 64gb drive!!!

      best post EVER.

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    14. krishnaparmarJanuary 10, 2012 at 10:24 PM

      i love you man
      thank you saving my ass from my dad
      i just save my 8 gb card
      -krishnparmar

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    15. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2012 at 8:25 PM

      First method gave me the blue screen of death, and the second method just didn't work. And I am still irate... Thanks anyway.

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    16. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2012 at 7:18 AM

      nothing worked

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    17. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM

      buy a new one.. my friends:) thank you so much.. :)
      coz i can't format mine.. coz i'm not techie, huhuhuhu... :'( gosh.....

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    18. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2012 at 4:18 PM

      USB Disk Storage Format tool says "The Disk Is Write Protected" Please help me out
      Thanks in Advance

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    19. keyurFebruary 20, 2012 at 9:14 PM

      nothing is working.....

      i think i need spoon feeding..

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    20. AnonymousFebruary 22, 2012 at 8:49 AM

      thanks :) My 8gb pen-drive was unable to format after creating openSUSE startup disk (I did as instructed in their official site). This tiny tool helped me.

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    21. GayanMarch 1, 2012 at 8:48 PM

      only 3rd method work for me

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    22. AnonymousApril 2, 2012 at 4:57 AM

      none work. always fails to format.

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    23. AnonymousApril 26, 2012 at 4:54 PM

      non worked, thanks anyway

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    24. AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 5:41 PM

      Thanx for ur help sir..

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    25. Maxi CoolcoolMay 15, 2012 at 1:39 PM

      thnks
      accendently i formated my usb during operating system intallation.
      method 3 is working.

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    26. AnonymousMay 18, 2012 at 9:34 AM

      None of the methods worked for me, I still get the write protection thing. What a waste of time. Fuck this website and whoever wrote this piece of crap article.

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    27. AnonymousMay 19, 2012 at 8:46 PM

      thanks

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    28. Arun Basil LalMay 31, 2012 at 10:46 PM

      Hey,

      I tried the Disk Management tool and that worked for me. Thanks for this, rock on :)

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    29. AnonymousJune 15, 2012 at 12:24 AM

      none of these works for me

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    30. UnknownJune 29, 2012 at 9:55 AM

      tell me password

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    31. HimelJuly 12, 2012 at 10:38 AM

      thanks bro!!

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    32. AnonymousJuly 18, 2012 at 1:29 PM

      thanks a lot

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    33. AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 1:31 PM

      Same here

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    34. AnonymousAugust 11, 2012 at 7:55 PM

      nothing works...

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    35. AnonymousAugust 15, 2012 at 8:31 PM

      C:\>format J:/q
      did it for me. THANK YOU!

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    36. AnonymousAugust 29, 2012 at 3:50 PM

      after using method 2,i had ''Please insert a disk into drive G:'' this problem,any solution?

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    37. GangadriSeptember 3, 2012 at 6:01 PM

      It Comes the drive is write protected while i am formatting with HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.1.8

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    38. AnonymousOctober 15, 2012 at 3:03 AM

      I think that the drive lacks the basic partition in it. It is functional though the partitions are not there so all that it needs is to be partitioned.

      GO and google EaseUS Partition Master 9.1 and download it. Then install it to your computer and create the basic partition for the flash disk using the partition format of wwither FAT or FAT32.

      VIOLA all is done.

      To all the linux users do install gparted and the installation commands are offered below


      Debian gparted
      sudo apt-get install gparted

      Fedora gparted
      su -c "yum install gparted"

      Ubuntu Download for Ubuntu button
      sudo apt-get install gparted

      I hope that it will help someone.

      Thank you

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    39. Hasitha (hasitha_kanishka@yahoo.com)November 13, 2012 at 12:41 PM

      Due to some physical damages some pen drives will not be able to format.

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    40. A. janbeinJanuary 2, 2013 at 8:32 PM

      it gives me this error

      "there is no media in the specified device"

      I tried cmd
      I tried disk management (it doesn't show there)

      I tried everything..I can't format or open it

      they ask me to format and wont format it

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    41. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2013 at 10:23 AM

      Method 3 works !! thanks

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    42. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 2:47 PM

      Tried the EaseUS, doesn't work either. Stays unallocated. Gives an error message with some spelling errors:

      "There are some error occured while writing partition chains on disk."

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    43. UnknownMarch 20, 2013 at 4:06 PM

      it said

      "Device media is write-protected"

      how to fix it?

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    44. sparksspaceMarch 20, 2013 at 9:16 PM

      1. Open Start Menu -> Run, type regedit and press Enter

      2. Navigate to the following path:

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
      Note: If the registry key StorageDevicePolicies key does not exist, you will need to create it

      3. Double click the key WriteProtect in the right pane and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button .

      4. Exit Registry, restart your computer and then again re-connect your USB pen drive on your computer. That is it, done.

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    45. AnonymousApril 3, 2013 at 6:45 AM

      Thanks a lot God bless you all

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    46. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM

      sir..

      my usb showing file system type = raw..

      and while formating it shows file system = exfat?

      and suggest something wht to do

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    47. sparksspaceSeptember 20, 2013 at 9:10 PM

      A RAW filesystem simply means that it is a filesystem that is not recognized by Windows. Therefore all the available filesystem drivers are unable to mount the filesystem as a drive. This often happens when the records determining the filesystem type or location on the disk are damaged or corrupted, usually the partition table or the boot sector.
      Since Windows sees no filesystem in the partition, it prompts you to format it in order to create a filesystem on it. DO NOT FORMAT IT.

      The most common cause of external hard drives suddenly becoming RAW drives is if they are disconnected from a computer without using the “Safely Remove Hardware” option. This can happen in many ways such as a power failure, unplugging the drive from the USB port or from its AC adapter, a problem with the computer that causes it to temporarily disconnect the USB hubs and many more circumstances can lead to this occurring


      iCare Data Recovery software can help you recover files from raw file system .

      Visit this link
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    48. UnknownOctober 22, 2013 at 6:37 PM

      very well explained.........The method given here also worked perfectly for me- http://www.superpctricks.com/2013/10/windows-was-unable-to-complete-format.html

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