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Trouble:
We have received many problems mentioning that they are not able to format their pen drives. Some of them have written that the pen drive capacity displayed is not correct.
When they try to format the pen drive, Windows Shows error "Can not format the pen drive". There can be more than one reasons behind such problems, some of the common problems are:

1. Virus or trojan infection.
2. Corrupted flash chips on the pen drive (hardware fault)
3. Fake pen drives ! (Many such drives are there in the markets, beware)
Lets see what to do to fix the issues.
Fix:
Virus or trojan infections:
Virus or trojans can run some process that keeps running in background. This not only harms the computer, but also prevents the pen drive from formatting as it shows that the drive is in use. Remove and re-insert the pen drive, don’t double click on drive and cancel autorun operations if it starts automatically. Run a virus scan on pen drive, this will help fix the issue. Now format the pen drive.
Always take precautions while using pen drives on other computers. See the some of our posts below on protecting your pen drive from viruses:
- Protect your computer from virus in pen drives
- Autorun.inf eater to remove autorun.inf related virus
- General safety tips against virus and trojans
Corrupted flash chips on pen drive:
If the pen drive is not detected at all, or shows a less capacity, then there are high chances that its a chip corruption. Flash chips are the actual hardware components that save the data. A physical or electrical or electromagnetic damage to these chips make the pen drive faulty. This can happen because of voltage fluctuations and faulty USB ports. In such case, get the flash drive replaced if its under warranty as it can not be fixed otherwise.
Fake pen drives:
Sounds a bit un-believable but true. There are a lot of pen drives in the market which are of very cheap quality which are fake copies of some known brands. Beware of such pen-drives. Always purchase pen-drives or memory-cards from a reliable source with bill and warranty to avoid any mess later.
We hope the information provided above will help.
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hi im having a problem with my pendrive
when ever im trying to format or copy the data to pendrive it is giving the type of error like write protected
so how i can cure this problem
please send me on my emial id
thanku
ur thankfully
MAHMOOD ALI
@mahmood
See this link for solutions :
http://www.troublefixers.com/disable-data-writing-on-your-usb-drive-to-protect-it-from-viruses/
and do the reverse
when i tried to open my pendrive, it gives a message ” dive is not formatted , do you want to format it now”
but if i clik it does not format or it works.
hi im having a problem with my pendrive
when ever im trying to format or copy the data to pendrive it is giving the type of error like write protected. i also tried to format from the command prompt its saying that file system is in raw and asking for /FS
so how i can cure this problem & i am not able to format also
please send me solution on my emial id
thanku
when ever i am trying to format or copy the data to pen drive it giving the type of error, like write procted. It says to remove the write protection from the volume.
when ever im trying to format or copy the data to pendrive it is giving the type of error like write protected
so how i can cure this problem
please send me on my emial id
thanku
ur thankfully
sir
my pendrive is copting the data but when the data is being retrieved for mit then it seems to be corrupted.
how can i solve this problem?
i would rather appreciate if you send me the solution on my email ID.
thank you
Pankaj Bhardwj
my pendrive is detected but does’t show data and same not formated what can i do it would rather appreciate if you send me the solution on my email id
when i tried to open my pendrive, it gives a message ” dive is not formatted , do you want to format it now”
but if i clik it does not format or it works
would rather appreciate if you send me the solution on my email id
when ever i am trying to format or copy the data to pen drive it giving the type of error, like write procted. It says to remove the write protection from the volume.
would rather appreciate if you send me the solution on my email id
when i copy .jpg/.bmp files on pendrive but it can’t show the image.Also After formatting pendrive it shows the previous content.so plese help me..
i m having problem in formating or writing into the pen drive
i got the following message:
“the disk cannot be written to becouse it id write protected, please remove the write protection from the volume i: in drive\device\harddisk
dr3″ (sometimes dr7 also)
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when i tried to open my pendrive, it gives a message ” dive is not formatted , do you want to format it now”
but if i clik it does not format or it works
would rather appreciate if you send me the solution on my email id
Dear Sir,
when i tried to open my usb flash drive, it gives a message ” drive is not formatted , do you want to format it now”
but if i clik it shows “windows was unable to complete this format” when i close the window another msg came up “the disk drive can not be formatted”. I noticed one more changes I can’t see the capacity of my drive in formating window.
I will appreciate if you send me the solution on my email
hi,
i format my pen drive.Later i clicked on the drive, its showed a messaged ” format the drive ” and clicked ok then again another messaged popped up saying this volume cannot be formatted. can you assist me with getting my pen drive work.
when ever im trying to format or copy the data to pendrive it is giving the type of error like write protected
Please advise us.
Regards
Srinath
hi,
i format my 16 gb pen drive.Later i clicked on the drive, its showed a messaged ” format the drive ” and clicked ok then again another messaged popped up saying this volume cannot be formatted. can you assist me with getting my pen drive work
antirus does not run on my pendrive and the pendrives space was shown 0 kb but it was 16 gb wat can i do …………autorun is also not there and the pendrive name is changed from mbpendrive to removable disk
I am getting a message dive is not formatted , do you want to format it now” whenever trying to access the USB.Kindly help
i cant start format for my pendrive.it shows that the drive is in use.and when i was exploring it only + sign folders are appearing.what to do ??tell me plzzz
i want to remove 16GB kingston pan drive write protection
Hiiiii,
I have 16 GB kingston Pan drive when i format it the massage show that this is write protected drive don’t format it.
what can I do.
Pls Help me.
Thanks
hi,
i format my 64 gb pen drive.Next i clicked on the drive, its showed a messaged ” format the drive ” and clicked ok then again another messaged popped up saying FAT 32 But I decided format in NTFS this volume cannot be formatted. can you assist me with getting my pen drive work, when i tried to open my pendrive again, it gives a message ” dive is not formatted , do you want to format it now”
but if i clik it does not format or it works
Thank You for your help.
my pen drive is detected but data not accessed and can not
format .how to format and access .other kinston pen drv is
not detected .pl suggest solution
i accidiently inserted pen drive in my windows98 laptop
virus entered into boot sector thru pen drive now my system
is not boot up also the hard drive is not accessed thru usb
hard drv casing thru other laptop .how to retrieve
data and make my hard drive working
pl suggest
i have 8gb pen drive and was usb flash secured. i forgot my password so i format it but now it is showing only 476 kb instead of 8gb please give me solution…and yes in properties , volume when we populate it is showing 8gb
hi im having a problem with my pendrive
when ever im trying to format or copy the data to pendrive it is giving the type of error like write protected. i also tried to format from the command prompt its saying that error like write protected
so how i can cure this problem & i am not able to format also
I have a 16GB pen drive which I bought in Dubai.
The problem is- when I insert the pen drive,computer recognizes it but as when I try to access it a message box appears saying : (Drive is not accessible !-Incorrect function ! )
And when I right clicked the drive to “format” no further action is processed.Nothing happens ,no progress is shown neither any dialog box appears.
I look forward to hearing from you
Bibek Gyawali
BE, Mechanical Engineering
Kathmandu University
sir i have a 32 gb pen drive . if i use on system it is deceted in my computer but its not opening and not able to format solve this problem soon please….
I hav a moserbaer pen drive and it was working but suddenly nw it is giving a msg ” isert a disk into drive H.” whenever i insert the pendrive it recognises but when i try to open it that msg gets displayed and also format cannot be done-while formating gives a msg “there is no disk inthe drive H”
please help
i have a kingston 32gb pendrive. My computer detects the pendrive and show it as Drive I: but when i try to open it, it doesn’t open, i tried formatting it, it doesn’t format a message ”Drive I: cannot be formatted”
i tried foratting using disk management it says it the disk is unreadable
i tried cmd also but failed there as well
Need urgent help guys, what should i do. No worries of the data lossing just need my drive to work well
Thanks in Advance!!!!!!!!!!!
Murugan
I have a pen drive kingston 128 GB, when ever im trying to format or copy the data to pendrive it is giving the type of error like write protected. i also tried to format from the command prompt its saying that file system is in raw and asking for /FS. By giving command in command promt e.g. say my pen drive is I and the command I have given is c:\>format /fs:ntfs i: it takes formating done up to 100% after that whenever drive creats the system files by the time it shows “system unable to format”.
Need urgent help guys, what should i do?
thanx
Rajendra
hi im having a problem with my pendrive
when ever im trying to format or copy the data to pendrive it is giving the type of error like write protected
so how i can cure this problem
please send me on my emial id
thanku
ur thankfully
Arif
when i tried to open my pendrive, it gives a message ” dive is not formatted , do you want to format it now”
but if i clik it does not format or it works.
hai my pen drive is showing used space is zero and free space
is zero it is not open
hii..
when i tried to open my pendrive,it gives a msg
” drive is not formatted , do you want to format it now”
but if i clik it does not format or it works.
pls pls help me out
hai my pen drive is showing used space is zero and free space
is zero it is not open
hii..
when i tried to open my pendrive,it gives a msg
” drive is not formatted , do you want to format it now”
but if i clik it does not format or it works.
I have a pen drive kingston 128 GB, when ever im trying to format or copy the data to pendrive it is giving the type of error like write protected. i also tried to format from the command prompt its saying that file system is in raw and asking for /FS. By giving command in command promt e.g. say my pen drive is I and the command I have given is c:\>format /fs:ntfs i: it takes formating done up to 100% after that whenever drive creats the system files by the time it shows “system unable to format”.
Need urgent help guys, what should i do?
thanx
Praveen singh
when ever im trying to format or copy the data to pendrive it is giving the type of error like write protected
Please advise us.
Regards
ashish kumar singh
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