How to format your SSD/HDD when it can't be formatted? [Force Format Command] 

Holy crap! this video was a god send. used O&O cloning program to make a new hard drive for my son's computer and it messed it up and created these partitions that i couldn't figure out how to delete. Your video really helped me out and thank you for this.

this is exactly what I needed after hours of research! So quick and easy. Thank you!

When I asked the "Universe" (Internet) how to initialise an SSD stick up popped this video. The beginning steps using Disk Part and Clean was my saviour. You saved me yet-another-trip to the computer store because the SSD stick was not appearing. Thanks mate.

4 years in the making ssd has been sitting in my computer unknownst to me with my harddrive booting up every game slowly day by day for 4 years straight thanks to you i have found freedom props go to you man

Jeez this is the only video that helped me, I was all day scrolling to useless tutorials and this legitimately works

Thank you so much! I, like many others, couldn't get my SSD set up properly and you provided a clear, concise answer in a very friendly manner. I can finally use it as it was intended to be used.

Life Saver! I found an old laptop rocking WindowsXP, and these steps STILL worked! Huge thanks.

Thank you, I’ve watched probably six videos that couldn’t help and your video finally fixed my problem.

After countless hours trying to sort mt drive out, this took a couple of minutes. thank you for the content. worked like a charm.

Lil help? "Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume." Would be very much appreciated thanks :)

I literally followed the video first time through in real time to format my SSD. Thank you for this!

Thank you so very much! After reading tons of articles and a lot of videos, I was led to this outstanding and very thorough video. My SSD showed up in disk management but would not allow me to format it so you helped me to wipe it clean and start over. Thanks again! I have spent several days and many hours trying to resolve this issue. Seven minutes with your video and "BAM!" I can sleep now. Lol.

Just formatted a previously used HDD from my tv to use on my computer, Without this video I would never have achieved it....Superb !!

Thought I had a brick when I tried to reformat my new SamSung SSD because initially cloning left me with a drive that stalled/spun at windows startup. I tried reformatting by right clicking on drive in WIndows explorer. That failed and then windows was saying it couldn't recognize the drive or do anything with it. Your command line solution followed by formatting in Drive Manager did the trick. Tried cloning again and all is good. Thanks so much!

You're a life saver! Recently my drive got virus attack and the drive totally corrupted. Then i use Disk Drill software to recover what i can. Few files were corrupted but majority were okay. Then when i want to format the disk, it was unable to complete the format. Finally i jumped to this video and i can use my drive back! Thankyou sir!

This helped so much, I was searching for so long. This was the only actual tutorial that worked. You are an incredible human being, thank you for all that you do.

After searching hours on the internet your video made it so simple and fast to fix my issue. Thanks a lot!!

Thank you for this tip, you saved my old m2 ssd from the garbage.

Thx bro, i search aproximative 100 tutorials but i needed this one thxxxx

OMG!!! I have been having problems forever and finally found your video. Thank Goodness as IT WORKED!!!! I can't believe the hours of RU-vid videos I have watched and you fixed it in 5 minutes. THANK YOU!!!!!

Thanks man for months i could not find any solutions to format my internal SSD drive i feel a tool now, and after all that it was so easy.

Ohhh man....you saved...me......my ssd got finally formatted....thanks man ......every other man in youtube just said the same thing....but you told us a new thing.....thanks man....appreciate it........love ya

Thank you for this. I'd formatted my new ssd externally and couldn't figure out why it wasn't showing when I hooked it up internally and was formatted as MBR. This fixed it for me

Thank you so much, i have been struggling off and on with this for about a year and i have finally figured it out.

For those are using Windows 11, it's the same steps. I can confirm it because I've been trying to format my damn hard disk for months and this guy helped me

Thank you! I was having the hardest time reformatting a used SSD.

Man you're a star you saved my life after weeks of researching crawling and scrolling. You easily receive a double like and an additional subscriber👍👍

So quick, simple and easy to understand, great tutorial. Thank you so much

I see a few comments saying it doesn't work. That's usually because diskpart detects what it thinks are files from an OS. You won't be able to clean from within windows with diskpart. If you have this error instead create a bootable USB windows installer. Boot from this USB stick and instead of starting a windows install go into repair my computer and then command prompt and perform the operations there (diskpart > select the right disk > clean > create partition primary > format > assign).

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Am I only one to feel this guy's channel is underrated?

awsome this is what i need, dont know why youtube dint recomend me this video earlier

Just want to thank you for this video! I finally found a solution for my 2 SSD.

ty so much for this, just took the drive on my dead macbook and did this to make it a clean new one.

hi, i find your video to be very informative. And recently my SSD got corrupted and following the steps shown in the video towards the point of "clean" command i got an incorrect function error on disk part both volumes and disk cant be cleaned with CMD usage are there alternative step to take upon this?

I was hoping this video would help me but alas. I took an old ssd out of a machine and I cannot clean it. I have gone through this process a few times. I initialise the disk, assign a drive letter, and it still has all the old file system folders in tact. Cannot format it at all. Any advice?

Been searching for couple days for this.... PERFECT Video! Thank you, brought my 1 TB back into life

Clean is not allowed on the risk containing the current boot. System page file. Crashdump or hypernation mode

doesnt show up in disk list

Many thanks for creating this tech vid, after wasting hours on multiple different OS's your veered resolve my problem within a few minutes. Owe you a beer 🙂

really helpful, thanks!

Thanks so much for this. It was what I was needing after a headache for months. Love you man

Best tutorial I’ve seen so far Worked exactly

THANKS MEN ! IT WORKS !! HAHAHA. I WENT TO A TECH SHOP AND THEY TOLD ME THAT MY EXTERNAL IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE BUT YOUR VIEO SAVE MY DAY HAHAHAH

You guys just gained a sub, i know it aint much, but this is my way of giving thanks! this helped me a LOT. more power guys!

thank you so much, i have trouble for literal days now.

Thank you. I had difficulties in formatting a used SSD to GPT earlier on.

I was unable to access my hard drive due to parameter error but i finally fixed it with this video thanks

Great video!!! Works like a charm, thanks for the help!!!

Thanks so much, i struggled to find a proper video, finally i get this😍

You are a LIFESAVER!

Thanks for the tip, saved my drive!

You save my life man, big thanks from Ireland

After 4 videos I finally did it thank you

Thanks I needed help, will use from now on.

This was very helpful. I had a ssd that would not format, and you showed the right tool for the job.

Helped me out in a pinch man thankyou.

Very helpful - Thanks for creating this video!

It doesn't really work if your drive can't be mounted and it's locked in "read only" mode. There are additional steps in disabling write-protection before you can erase the drive.

Mate, thanks for making this guide! Saved me when i tried to install windows on a previously striped disk.

FINALY after 2 hours of searching i found this video and it was so easy to follow and now all my storage devices are all working thank you @TechNotice

Thank you so much mate

Thank you so much. This is exactly what I needed. That was straight to 🎯

I was about to return my harddrive, thank you so much🙏💯

thanks for the help, I have already checked many methods, but nothing helps to solve the problem after the format, everything given is returned back to the ssd, there are no bad sectors on the disk, the system is Windows 10, it is probably hardwired onto the disks

Easiest tutorial, thanks brother

Not working for a Kingston SSD. All files just reappear after delete, format, clean wipe, delete partition or whatever you can think of. Everything finishes with no errors except formatting, but at the end the disk looks exactly the same. Broken?

thankyou soooo much, this saves me a trip to the computer store!

Thanks for the detailed instructions! Revived my 1TB after so long. Thank you!

Thanks a lot dear.... it really works... i tried many software but didn't work but your trick works very well.... once again thankyou so much.

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YOU SAVED ME!!! Thanks. Very good video. You just made a new subscriber :D

Yes! Thank you!

Thank you! I accidentally corrupted my usb and this helped a lot!

I searched many websites for information. But it couldn't help me. Until I watch this, this easy-to-understand and concise video. Thank you very much! 👏

WHAT A LEGEND thank you man

Can I use this method to format a specific volume on the hard drive? my old hard drive has a windows install which messes with my PC boot but I don't want to format the entire hard drive

Thanks a lot for the video! I kept getting an error every time I tried to clean the disk but putting in "list volume" told me what to do. Didn't see that anywhere else, so it was very helpful!

Thanks for the video! I forgot how to do this and I am glad someone made a video on this!

helped out a lot thank you so much now my buddy can have his computer working again you are amazing

Sheeesssshhh thankyou bro !!! u save my 1tb hdd ,labyu bro.

Exactly the tutorial I have been looking for. Thank you!

Spot on solution to my problem. Cheers for this video👍🏻

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My system responded with "diskpart has encountered an error: The media is write protected. See the system Event Log for more information" I'll keep looking for solutions but thank you for sharing this with us!

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Thanks so much for posting this video such a great help...Cheers

Grateful to this video of yours. Really it's a Life-saver with such eay and simple to follow method and intuitive style of yours. Thank you very much. Great Job.

This works wonders bro good stuff

Worked like a champ in Win 11 on my Samsung SSD. Thanks!

Whenever I hit Clean it says it’s not a valid command 😭😭

OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH I JUST SPENT HOURS I MEAN HOURS UPON HOURS TRYING TO GET MY SSD TO CONNECT AND HERE YOU GO AND FIX IT IN LESS THEN 5 MINUTES 🎉🎉🎉😂

Dang that was easy. Never thought about using Disk Part

Thanks a lot - found this after 3 hours going nowhere.

I got lost on witch one to choose. Didn’t really explain how to know what one you should chooses in the beginning

Thanks buddy... you saved life...

Thanks a ton!! My external HDD crashed and No backup recovery cleaner tool worked. Windows CMD the best of all. Just what I was searching for. All data lost but at least HDD works now.

amazing. i was going crazy and this worked like a charm. thank you so much

Genius, thank you super video, Norrie