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I can't format my usb drive in any way.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2018 8:47 PM

Hey,I need help formatting my drive,when i try to format it through Right click>Format,nothing happens,i tried diskpart in so many ways but nothing has worked for me so far... 

I tried this in cmd,and i launched as administrator

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.17763.1

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DESKTOP-87ER277

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
           
  Disk 0    Online          298 GB      0 B
  Disk 1    No Media           0 B      0 B

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list volume

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
               
  Volume 0                      NTFS   Partition    100 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 1     C                NTFS   Partition    297 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 2     D                       Removable       0 B  No Media

DISKPART> select volume 2

Volume 2 is the selected volume.

DISKPART> format fs=ntfs

Virtual Disk Service error:
The volume is not formattable.

All replies (11)

Tuesday, December 18, 2018 9:08 PM

No one in my country even uses linux,that is the issue..


Tuesday, December 18, 2018 9:08 PM

But i can try on a friends computer,will update.


Tuesday, December 18, 2018 9:17 PM

I pluged it in my friends pc,it appears,but also can not be formated,when i go right click>format it does nothing. When I plug it in,it asks me if I want to format it,i press Yes and nothing happens,i plug it out,put in into another port and click no try to format it manually nothing happens too. I tried both Disk Management and a online software,nothing works


Tuesday, December 18, 2018 9:20 PM

It just oppened in to the Disk Management,and says Unallocated,i try to format it as a NTFS(Quick),doesn't work,NTFS(not quick) doesn't work and leaves the same message. The system cannot find the file specified.


Tuesday, December 18, 2018 9:22 PM

Now it appears in Disk Management as Disk 1 (Removable) No Media,and its 0 bytes,cannot access it.


Tuesday, December 18, 2018 9:26 PM

Will do,thanks!


Tuesday, December 18, 2018 10:29 PM

Clean it?


Wednesday, December 19, 2018 2:01 AM

Hi,

Thanks for your post in our forum.

According to my understanding, the USB could be destroyed. Can it work fine(not format)? 

Try to use some software to san the USB or try to run some fix app to fix it.

We can try the following link to see if it helps.

Automatically diagnose and fix Windows USB problems

Hope above information can help you.

Best Regards,

Otto 

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Friday, December 21, 2018 2:11 AM

I noticed the disk reports no media. It means your disk gets corrupted for some reasons:

1. Bad or loose USB port connection.

2. Unplug the USB drive forcefully without ejecting or safely removing the USB drive from computer.

3. Virus infection.

4. MBR or PBR of the device get damaged.

5. Insufficient power supply from the USB port. Overloading USB ports like inserting multiple USB drives may trigger the USB showing no media issue.

6. There are some bad sectors on the USB drive.

7. Failing flash drive. No Media error will also happen when the flash memory controller cannot communicate with the NAND flash memory on the drive. Then, Windows will treat the drive as an empty disk drive.

So, you cannot format it successfully in a normal way. You need a professional disk formatting software. AOMEI Partition Assistant is a great choice, it is able to forcefully format the corrupted disk with ease.


Friday, December 21, 2018 7:35 AM

Hi,

Just checking in to see if the information provided was helpful. Please let us know if you would like further assistance.

Best Regards,

Otto Wang

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Tuesday, December 25, 2018 2:06 AM

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