Thread: Can’t format my flash drive

When I try to format my flash drive as it won’t open and not format the flash drive. I've attempt to using the Restore disks, on Linux, windows XP, and vista. Please give some advice.

TO fix this problem Try to reformate your flash drive on a another computer it help to fix your problem that works

Is it noticeable in the Disk Management tool? Usually just like external hard disks they come with a Fat32 or exFat32 volume on them previously. As in the DM tool you just right click on the drive and select the format selection to see changed to the NT File System. That will of course wipe something currently on the flash drive.

In case all that fails you may have a bad drive if new and never been used before needing substitute. If the three volumes are corrupted someway you may have to boot up from a live GParted cd and just delete the offered factory partition in order to see a fresh one that works go on.