00:00Hey everyone, welcome back to Victor Explains.
00:13In today's video, I'm going to show you how to fix the can't format USB drive or Windows was unable to complete the format error on Windows 11, 10, 8, or even Windows 7.
00:23So here's what we're going to do.
00:25First, open command prompt by typing cmd into the search box.
00:29Then right click it and choose run as administrator.
00:44Once command prompt is open, type disk part and hit enter.
00:50Then type list disk and press enter again.
00:54And also type select disk and now you must know your USB number that why this part is really important, you must know exactly which one is your USB drive.
01:03To double check, just right click the start button, open computer management and then go into disk management.
01:09And here we go, my USB shows up as disk 1.
01:18Yours might be different, so just match it based on the size.
01:22It might also show as raw, unallocated, or even completely blank, and that's fine.
01:27That simply means the drive is corrupted.
01:29Now, head back to command prompt and type, your USB number in my case is I will type 1 and press enter after that type at rebutes disk clear read only and press enter.
01:46Then type clean and hit enter again.
01:49Cleaning removes all corrupted partition information that's stopping Windows from formatting the drive.
01:55Next, we create a brand new partition by typing create partition primary and press enter.
02:01And finally, we format it by typing format FS equals NTFS quick and press enter.
02:06You can replace NTFS with FAT32 if you prefer that.
02:10I'm using NTFS with a quick format, which only takes a few seconds.
02:15And that's it, as soon as the format completes, the USB drive comes back to life and starts working normally again.
02:22When we open File Explorer, perfect!
02:29The drive is recognized, accessible, and formatting works just the way it should.
02:34When we open over to the USB drive, we look at this point of what is possible.
02:39Like this, the drive is not a virtual drive, but it's got a virtual drive, but we're going
02:44to get a power to use the drive class.
02:46We're going to go to the start.
02:47We're reading the drive for a couple of minutes.
02:48It's just that the drive to exit.
02:49If we're going to do this, we can just work at the end of the drive.
02:51Right?
02:52Now, if you get the drive on the drive, we're going to start to the drive.
02:54Okay, we're going to get the drive around.
02:55We're going to do that.
02:56We're going to take the drive right away.
02:57Let's go, go.
02:58We're going to start to the drive.
02:59We're going to get the drive up.
03:00We're going to try to drive it.
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