How to Format a USB Flash Drive - NTFS / FAT32 / RAW

Author: CyberPunk
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1. Open up cmd from the start menu 2. Type compmgmt.msc to open your computer management tool and locate the disk # 3. Once you have the disk number, remember it, then pull command prompt back up and type in: diskpart 4. Type: list disk 5. Then after remembering what number your disk was, change the # sign to the number and type: select disk # 6. Then type: clean 8. Then Type: create partition primary 9. Then type: active 10. Finally type: format fs= fat32 (OR NTFS) Difference: FAT32 (File Allocation Table) is older, and more compatible with all file types and systems, but only transfers up to 4gig files NTFS (New Technology Files System) allows for files above 4gigs, but is unable to be formatted, doens't work with all operating systems like MACS

Comments

  1. when I type clean will I lose all my files
  2. Thank you. Thought I'd screwed my pen drive on a Linux machine until I saw your videos. Now I know how to fix it. You're a life saver!
  3. myy pendrive has the i/o error how to clear it , It iss not formating
    wheni do format in cmd it is saying their is an i/o error
  4. no volume selected

    please help
  5. in my case when i typed create primary partition,

    the feedback is

    no usable free extent could be found

    Please help
  6. when i click format fs=nfts
    igot this massage :
    diskpart has encountared an error :access is danied.see the system event log for more information.... please help
  7. Thank you man it works :D you helped mee :)
  8. it says no usable free content :'(
  9. I have a 16gb that shows as being 64gb. When trying to format using this I get "No usable free extent could be found, it may be there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset..."
    It lists 1 partition but can't select.
    Any ideas?
  10. Error .... This method did not work for me.
    unable to clean
  11. I'm stuck on step 8, when I type in create partition primary, it says. "No usable free extent could be found, it may be there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset..." What do I do? I tried skipping the step but I have to select a partition:/
  12. Thanks man, this tutorial worked like a charm (y) :)
  13. no thank you bro goood titorial
  14. after entering type partition memory 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).

    What should i do now
  15. So the goal is to change it from raw to ntfs or fat32
  16. stuck at step 9
    " Virtual Disk Service error:
    The object is not found.
    "
  17. still can't format..help plz
    Disk part has encountered an error: The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error.See the system Event Log for more information.
  18. I've try the step but when I try and clean the disk 2 selected, I get an error that says diskpart has encounter an error: the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error...pls help
  19. why my cmd was error when I try formatted my flashdrive?
  20. it didn't work for me