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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@Britec09 2 года назад

common USB drive problem solved. Drop us a LIKE 👍

@markanderson2155 2 года назад

One question does this same method work with a HDD or just thumb drive?

@evanray8413 2 года назад

@@markanderson2155 Both.

@markanderson2155 2 года назад

@@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.

@Hellfield 2 года назад

Hey, Hi there. When I tried to create the partition, the ststem told me there's no space for the operation

@leupt3283 2 года назад

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?

@jeliaroischers8983 7 месяцев назад

Still saving lives 2 years after the original upload, thanks man

@bobpage6597 2 года назад

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!

@jay_alpha 9 месяцев назад

can u explain me in detail what to do

@NefariousEnough Год назад

This is perfect!! I've been searching for an hour for this walkthrough. Thanks!!

@ThePaulg123 11 месяцев назад

That was so seamless and straightforward your steps, thank you 🙏🏻

@Grimoor 2 года назад

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.

@thonkaro4374 2 года назад

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!

@srbandel 2 года назад

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

@luckydepressedguy8981 5 месяцев назад

same lol still no fix on it ?

@Invalidinput Год назад

Great video! Your clear and concise information helped me very well. Thank you!

@derekp2674 2 года назад

Thanks Brian that is really useful. It is interesting to see examples of windows tasks that need to be done from the terminal.

@Mr2Rikable Год назад

thanks a lot, the only person who actually helped with a working instruction guide. I thought i fried my usb stick or something

@IBEWelectronut Год назад

Thanks! You really made that so easy to follow. You're a Godsend. Thank you so very much.

@Britec09 Год назад

Thanks for the donation 👍

@MacysShopLifter Год назад

Thanks you! This work great! I literally tried every other thing I could find on RU-vid before finally fixing the issue with your video.

@markanderson2155 2 года назад

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.

@Britec09 2 года назад

You're very welcome!

@user-jz8nu9kf9q Год назад

I spent hours looking for a solution... THANK YOU SO MUCH.

@RevNicholasJonsson 2 года назад

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 :-)

@Britec09 2 года назад

Thanks for watching

@charlesxix 2 года назад

Me too.

@TobiasSteiner Год назад

Litreally recovered a small batch of Sandisk 32GB drives this way. 🙏Thank you so much!

@lesliesavage9229 2 года назад

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.

@DevilbyMoonlight 2 года назад

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

@Britec09 2 года назад

that is correct, I try and keep full commands so people learn easier

@welcomea6304 Год назад

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!

@thatsalot3577 Год назад

Thanks man I can't express how grateful I am for this tutorial

@shawnhohmann1510 Год назад

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.

@paulgregory9248 2 года назад

This is the only video that worked for me. Thank you so much.

@amgrig Год назад

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.👍

@KaRtHiK-kf5np 2 года назад

Was just having this problem, and your Video Came right on time. Thnx

@Britec09 2 года назад

Glad it helped

@jongbong 2 года назад

everything was okay until after i typed format fs=ntfs quick, it says dispart has encountered an error: the parameter is incorrect. see the system event log for more information. i checked the event log. it just shows the the time and error. what should i do next?

@Jaxen18 2 года назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Worked perfectly! Great guide

@ABWEndon 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for this tutorial. It worked like a dream and rescued an unusable USB drive.

@vagabond-xd1vd 2 года назад

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.

@oceansedits6753 Год назад

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.

@Karadenizligamer 2 года назад

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

@wungabunga 2 года назад

try a different format. Mine failed on fat 32 but worked on ntfs.

@tamarsicristian 2 года назад

very very good. Took me 5 minutes to solve this problem, after many hours of frustration

@billrussells2521 Месяц назад

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

@danalynch8889 2 года назад

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.

@desserthound 2 года назад

you deserve an award! Thank you so much!!!!!!

@docholliday1811 2 года назад

Thank you that was really helpful and informational.

@Britec09 2 года назад

You are so welcome!

@aghabilal8200 Год назад

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!

@nsstudio908 3 месяца назад

Wow Thanks a lot man. Still now working. This is the real content.

@JustinGeekNerd 2 года назад

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 🤙

@hamoodsherif Год назад

I was struggling man u are the best this video get five stars it was really helpful thanks ❤️

@mikenow3050 Год назад

This also worked on a faulty USB stick. But did full format, it took a while but now works great thanks.

@robertfitzgerald3432 2 года назад

Very helpful USB Drive Fix/Test video, thank you.

@franciscocaetano8560 2 года назад

Thank you! Really helpful

@TheSilverGate 9 месяцев назад

Thank you a 1000 times. I tried it all, only your solution worked

@chetbaker6432 2 года назад

Thank you! Fixed my USB perfectly!

@LifeByKpop 2 года назад

Much thanks Brian. I have a couple that need to be fixed. 👍

@Britec09 2 года назад

Glad to help

@ypwygk652 2 года назад

Thank you, it was very useful.. Please keep making such videos

@didyaevernotice9196 6 месяцев назад

This is by far the best help with this issue!🎉

@imispmw 2 года назад

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 💕

@Salami12331 2 года назад

What to do if after step 5 command "clean" i got error: "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." Edit:i changed usb slot and after clean i got "No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created)."

@MK-ni6gs 2 года назад

Thank you, this was also very helpful.

@marisaeggs 2 месяца назад

your videos are honestly legendary, by far my favourite tech support youtuber on this platform

@stephendavidrathburn8952 2 года назад

Thanks much Mr. Brian! You said we can format the drive as Fat32. Is it possible to format a larger dive than 32 gigs in Fat32 using this method.? If I recall, Windows normally limits the size of Fat32 formats.

@gardensindeze2568 Год назад

hey Britec09 at step " format fs=ntfs quick " responds " 0 percent completed " also " Diskpart has encounter an error : the parameter is incorrect . see the system event log for more information . " so what shall i do ? ?

@koushikv9561 Год назад

Same problem

@nurullahokuyan3253 2 года назад

Thank you, this is actually saved my SD! Worked perfectly..

@firedevzz 2 года назад

Thank you sir this helped me recover my old USB! 👍

@Britec09 2 года назад

Glad I could help

@finkitsallover 2 года назад

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

@speaktruth2830 20 дней назад

Hi there, When I enter create partition primary i get this message "No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created).

@ANTIMONcom 2 года назад

"Attributes disk clear readonly"-trick worked for me. Thanks :) I could format via windows GUI after that was done

@Ratchet_effect 2 года назад

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 🤓👍🏻

@Britec09 2 года назад

I should of probably titled it windows11 because am on Windows 11, but its the same thing really

@johnbowles4754 2 года назад

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. 👍 😎

@skydee4394 Год назад

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

@joea9222 6 месяцев назад

The only video that actually fixed my issue.

@my-yt-inputs2580 2 года назад

Interesting. I've never used the "attributes disk clear readonly" command/switch. I've only simply used the Clean command which seems to work good enough. What does the attributes command do that Clean doesn't do?

@darkspongebob11 2 года назад

its meant to stop the drive from having any sort of locks that would prevent it from being able to modify the content of the drive i had this issue with 2 of my drives and throught that would fix it unfoutnaly it didnt but yeah that commands purpose is completyly diffrrent

@VivianAdaobiEwulu 5 дней назад

What of if you want to tap the USB or SD card and the file exploration USB flash is not responding what should I do

@swannyyy 2 года назад

Great Tutorial! Thank you lots!

@saifhassan04 2 года назад

wonderful, I thought my usb is gone but I tried this method and worked. :-) Thanks

@undertonebg 5 месяцев назад

Excellent video, thanks for the guide. Worked like a charm.

@TheLegendMaster 9 месяцев назад

I've got a problem with a brand new drive which is now raw, when I try your method, I can't create the 'partition primary' as it says 'no usable free extent could be found'.

@Techtechies662 Год назад

Thanks buddy ❤❤ I appreciate your work 👏👏

@kritishshrestha9894 6 месяцев назад

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.

@MF-le7fp 2 года назад

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?

@jendeukie7397 Год назад

Thanks! an excellent tutorial :) The pen drive was fixed

@frankclake 2 года назад

Excellent, I could not format a thumb drive after making it multi-bootable. This fixed it!

@Britec09 2 года назад

Glad it helped!

@emmadax Год назад

so when I try to put create partition primary it says "There is not enough usable space for this operation." what does this mean?

@kadenloghry-bp8st Месяц назад

thank you this is the only video that worked. THANK YOU SO MUCH👍

@NEDCODEV 2 года назад

Holy.. someone actually knows what he's talking about. It took me 3 articles, 5-6 videos on RU-vid and all of them didn't fix my issue. Thank you @Britec09 your method actually saved my USB!

@ypwygk652 2 года назад

Thank you, it was very useful.. Please keep making such videos You have a thousand likes My flash problem has been solved

@whoisemmy0010 2 года назад

Worked well . Thankyou so much !

@StodzysMetals Год назад

Searched hours and your video helped thanks :)

@fredericp64 4 месяца назад

Would this work on a hard drive too tyyyyy!!! Trying toj install windows 10 on a PC that was configured as a raid. Not recognizing any disks.

@mohammadrezamosallayee389 2 года назад

Thank you so much you saved my usb we both thank you for saving his life👍

@DerpyUniverse Год назад

When attempting to clear the drive it says access is denied, even after trying to clear read only 3 times I keep getting this error when clearing afterwards

@akiyoshidoug Год назад

This is the only solution that worked for my USB drive. Thank you!

@Mr.P001 6 месяцев назад

Thank you. Just what I needed

@ivaniusmetal 6 месяцев назад

Hi! I am getting this error after executing the comment "clean": DiskPart has encountered an error: A device which does not exist was specified. See the System Event Log for more information. can you help me, please?

@legiahuy9436 Год назад

I have an error at 3:02, it said: "DiskPart has encountered an error: A device which does not exist was specified. See the System Event Log for more information." help me plz

@zimpazumpa9921 2 года назад

You are a life saver brother.

@muaazulhassan1721 Год назад

Thanks alot, you made my day. the error is fixed perfectly

@michaelsamy3751 7 месяцев назад

This was so helpful to me, thank you

@HTWwpzIuqaObMt 2 года назад

got a "Windows has scanned the file and found problems" message but no further information. Any way to check on the full error and any solutions?

@jonswenson 2 года назад

That worked. Thanks for walking me through that.

@Britec09 2 года назад

Glad to hear it

@paulwarner5395 2 года назад

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??

@yuvarudra6602 2 года назад

Thankz for the wonderfull video. Solved my problem. Liked & subscribed. 😊

@JR0458 2 месяца назад

Fantastic! I've tried dos commands and did not work. Added "Clean" and "create primary" to my steps and it worked!!! Thanks Britec09!!

@XxMInecraftCPXx Год назад

thank you so much it was the only video that worked

@ancor07 2 года назад

After I click create partition primary, I received this error Message: (No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created).

@matiaswetzel 2 года назад

same here. could u fix it already?

@anandinsaan4593 Год назад

@@matiaswetzel what about you same prblm 😅😅

@Colo2K 21 день назад

Thank you for this, saved my 128gb usb! Earned a sub.

@maximumpotential3796 9 месяцев назад

Thankyou for saving me loads of trouble. Did it and it works.

@aaajp3 2 года назад

Thanks Brian. Love your work. What about re-formatting an SD Card. I have many that I cannot get going. I have tried SD Formatter and so on, nothing i try will get the SD Card to be able to be Seen by Windows. You can plug it in, Windows 10 makes the Plugged in sound but you cannot see it in a list of Windows drives or in Diskpart. Sometimes Windows says it cannot recognise the drive. The above happens after you have formatted the drive in Windows to work on a Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi. Any help or Video would be great - I have has this issue for a year at least, I even contacted SD Association. Thanks John - Sydney Australia