- #Unable to format usb drive free#
- #Unable to format usb drive windows#
Physical damage - if your usb drive/disk suffered physical damage, it wont work normal and Windows can't format it too. USB flash drive/disk is write protected - you need to remove the write protection. Bad sectors - after using the usb flash drive or disk for a while or several years after thousands of overwriting on the same storage, some blocks may become weak and even corrupted and many users may not do repair bad sectors or mark the bad sectors on the usb drive for avoiding new use and then some day it would become abnormal. Virus infection - the usb drive has been attacked by virus and some parts of the usb like the logical master boot record may become corrupted or other parts gets damaged too. There are several possible reasons why Windows reported it cannot format your disk or usb storage and mainly of them are the following: Windows was unable to complete the format It would popup the following error message. However Windows may fail to format your media if it was damaged. Format removable/internal hard drive via Disk Management if you right click 'This PC' and go to option 'Manage', and then select the partition you need to format and then it would offer the option 'Format'. 
Format removable disk by right click the media and then "Format" after you open My Computer or This PC.You may format it by the following 2 ways to format a disk. Why Windows cannot format usb flash drive/diskįormatting a removable disk is easy if your disk is a good one without logical or physical damage and it can easily be performed by Windows.
4 Free ways to fix Windows failed to format.
Recover data from corrupted usb flash drive when it can't be formatted (if data important). Why Windows can't formatusb flash/external drive.
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