Unable windows not formated

My experience with Windows formatting goes back many years. Almost every time "Windows was unable to complete the format" means the hard drive needs replacing. For a PhotoBall, a new unit is recommended.

I experienced the same problem (my USB device ). try these steps:
1. Start, Control Panel,
2. Performance and Maintenance,
3. Administrative Tools,
4. Computer Management,
5. Disk Management,
6. Find the USB drive (usually the last storage device before the optical drive),
7. Click on the USB drive,
8. Right click on it and you will see the options (New Partition or Format)
9. Follow the instruction (I chose FAT32), but please do NOT chose Quick Format.

You are plugging it in, going to windows, right clicking the drive - format - quick format and its not working?

Try right clicking the drive, going to properties, and run the error checking or disk checking for errors. Windows can attempt to clear the problem.

You will probably need to remove the drive and use another computer to format it. You can buy an adapter to connect it to another pc as a USB drive and format it this way. They are not very expensive. Hope this helps.

if window is unable to format try to format it using some utility software like hp disc format utility
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It seems that the card is bad. Try to format the card on a different machine to rule out your Windows formatter.

Far too often these little things have an almost invisible read/write protect button on them. Look carefully, over the entire surface of the USB Flash Drive. You might have this switch turned to Write Protect, which means there is nothing you can do, until you turn it the other way, and allow the device to be written to.

Cheers!
-a.

windows was unable to complete the format flash drive

sir
u dont need to buy a new one. You can download file shredder from here . do following things :

1. download and install file shredder
2. shred all the files which are in pendrive(after shredding u will not be able to recover them)
3. then try to format it .,

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