Windows was unable to complete the format Sometimes when you try to format the usb drive by Windows built-in function, it would report 'Windows was unable to complete the format' together with other error code along with it like i/o device error, or wirte protected, file or disk directory is corrupted. Why Windows cannot format usb flash drive/disk
- Recover data from formatted usb drive if formatted by mistake.
- How to format usb flash drive using cmd.
- USB format tool write protected - How to remove write protection on usb.
- Windows was unable to complete the format usb disk/flash drive.
- Se ha producido un error es probable que la fuente esté fuera de servicio.
- Instructions for HIGH level format:Ĭongratulations, now your USB drive should be working again. The device is now ready to use, now you have to format it (like the old 3 1/2″ floppy disks). Once it completes the format, you will receive the following message: Select the tab «Low Level Format» and click «Format This Device» Then you will have more details in a windows with 3 tabs: Device Details, LOW-Level format and S.M.A.R.T. *Make sure that you select the correct device. Select your USB flash drive and click «Continue» You will find a screen with all the disk drives detected by Windows, it should look like this: Download and install the «HDD Low Level Format Tool» then launch it. Therefore, data restoration will be impossible after using this utility! Try to recover data before running this utility. WARNING: After running this free low level format tool, the whole disk surface will be fully erased. The program utilizes Ultra-DMA transfers when possible. The data cannot be recovered after using this utility.
Low Level Format Tool will clear partitions, MBR, and every bit of user data. Low-level formatting of Flash Cards is supported too.
Will work with USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures. This freeware Low Level Format utility will erase, Low-Level Format and re-certify a SATA, IDE or SCSI hard disk drive with any size of up to 281 474 976 710 655 bytes. MS Windows 2000SP4/ XP / 2003 (I did the recovery on VISTA RC1!).So, I developed my own guide that is very easy. I tried to use the Disk management of XP and Windows vista RC1 but my usb stick was unreadeable, the HP format tool did’nt work because the disk was locked, this was frustrating. I had a problem with a Sandisk mini cruzer 128MB usb drive and I had no success with the guides Before Posting Sandisk Cruzer Micro/Mini Problems and Flash drive recovery procedures