Cannot Format USB Flash

NavyLCDR said:

@m7ro,

Have you tried unplugging the flash drive, reboot the computer, let it load Windows and stabilize, plug the flash drive in then run the diskpart commands!?

And i get error message when i type clean

m7ro said:

And i get error message when i type clean

You did not type clean in your screenshot. Follow @Paul Black's last command sequence to clean and format. If his last sequence of commands do not work, then you simply have a bad flash drive.

NavyLCDR said:

You did not type clean in your screenshot. Follow @Paul Black's last command sequence to clean and format. If his last sequence of commands do not work, then you simply have a bad flash drive.

Yeah it says :

DiskPart has encountered an error: A device which does not exist was specified.
See the System Event Log for more information.

I think you may need to accept the fact that your dearly departed flash drive has passed away, croaked, bought the farm, bit the dust, pushing up daisies, has suffered a major malfunction, has gone to the spirit in the sky, has kicked the bucket...

Paul Black said:

Sorry, I do NOT understand!

Hey, you didn't answer my question from 5 days ago, can you look? IT IS IMPORTANT! It will take like couple seconds... I just wonder what you think, that's all, thanks

Lance1 said:

Follow this sequence.

PS C:\Windows\system32> diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.964

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: LANCE-PC

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 1 Online 931 GB 0 B *
Disk 2 Online 465 GB 2048 KB *
Disk 3 Online 465 GB 0 B *
Disk 4 Online 931 GB 486 GB *
Disk 5 Online 5588 GB 0 B *
Disk 6 Online 14 GB 0 B

DISKPART> select disk 6 {Select Your Disk Number}

Disk 6 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> clean

DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

DISKPART> create partition primary

DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

DISKPART> format fs=fat32 quick

100 percent completed

DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.

DISKPART>

I'm really surprised that nobody has suggested that before.

Paul Black said:

Hello @empleat,



That question was NOT directed to you!

If you post the link to the post in question, I will have a look.

https://www.tenforums.com/private.ph...pm&pmid=160602