Unable to Format Pen Drive? (Format Guaranteed)

If you are trying to format your pen drive or other removable storage devices like memory cards, flash drives, or external HDD, but your are not able to format it, then you are in the wright post. There are several reasons for what sometimes you may not be able to format your USB drives. Reason can be anything but sometimes the problem can be very irritating. And I hope and I can also say sure that the solution that I am gonna show in this post will definitely help you to get rid of this USB drive format problem.

There are several way by which you can format your pen drive or other removable storage devices like memory cards, flash drives, or external HDD on your windows PC. As I said before sometimes you can not format these drives by using Quick Format option of your PC. But still before formatting your USB drives by any other format method you should Quick Format option at least once. Then you can use the following methods. If the first one is not working then try the next one.

Quick Format: Insert your pen drive into your PC. Then from My Computer click Right button on the USB drive and select Format. Now mark the Quick Format box and click on Start button.

Note: Make sure that your USB drive is connected to your PC.

Methods to Format USB Drives:

Using Command Prompt:

• First open the RUN option. (Press Windows Key+R to open RUN). 

• Then here type CMD and press Enter. Command prompt dialog box will open. 

• Then in the command prompt box type format and give an <space> then type your pen drive letter after : and press Enter. Suppose your pen drive letter is P, then type format :P and press Enter. 

• Then will have to press Enter again to start the format process.

The format process will take a few minutes to complete depending on the data that the drive has. So, be patience, it will format your pen drive completely. 

In case this method is not working then your should try the following software to unlock your USB drive. Because you can't format your USB drive until your unlock it. This software will unlock your USB drive so that you can format it. Beside that you will get confirmation that your USB drive is locked or not.

Using Unlocker Software:

• First get the software from here Unlocker (It's only 394 KB) 

•  Then install the software in your PC.

• Now click right mouse button on  the Pen Drive and select Unlocker. 

• Then click Yes in the next step. A new window will open to Unlock your pen drive. 

• If your pen drive is locked then from No action select Delete and click Ok or Unlock it. If your pen drive is not locked then you will  have a confirmation message.

After unlocking your pen drive click right mouse button on your pen drive and click Format to format your pen drive.

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