Windows was unable to complete format-know the cause of this error message

Now a days, most of the people use USB Flash drives or memory cards to store or transfer their important data because its need small physical  space and easy to carry or transfer data. Sometimes, we need to format our USB Flash drive but when, we try to format it but we are unable to format the USB drive and got the error message- windows was unable to complete format.

Know , why the windows can’t format the USB drive ?

Bad Sectors in storage device

Bad sector is one of the main reason to disrupt the formatting process as well as recovery . Any storage device divided into sectors that are the smallest unit for the data storage. Files are stored in USB or hard drive usually by occupying the discontinuous sectors. Sectors that are damage or can’t be read or write, due to the bad quality, excessive defragmentation, unplug USB drive directly while it is working, are known as bad sectors.

Virus Infection

Usually we used USB drive on various computer system to transfer data or take backup that is the reason , USB drive easily get damaged or infected by the virus. When we connect the USB drive to computer system that are not secured by the antivirus software like public computers then USB drive will quietly get under the infection of virus that makes USB drive non- working.

So be careful about the the protection of your computer system and USB drive against the virus because these viruses becomes more dangerous to your important data. But don't be bother, use antivirus and keep secure your computer system and its data. But still in case of any problem, you may contact us on norton antivirus customer service phone number usa@1-844-798-3801 to solve your computer or USB  Drive virus issues.  

 

 

USB Drive becomes write protected

Sometimes, USB drive will become write protected, means-when you connects the USB drive to computer system and try to start copy file or documents to it, then you can’t copy it and shown a message on your screen The disk is write protected. Remove the write protection or use another disk. In this case you need to remove the write-protection before format the USB drive.

Damaged Storage Device

However, physical damage is the another main reason that makes storage device inaccessible. No one computer can’t be able to format USB drive , if it is unable to use the storage device like chip or circuit board does not work .To make damage part workable again, we need to repairing the device from the authentic repair center. 

Know, how can you fix the USB drive when it shows error:- 

Format the USB drive via disk management Format the USB drive  with the use of command prompt Use Partition Guru to fix the issueRead More to know how can you format USB drive with command prompt and disk management.

How can you create your pen drive bootable using command prompt

Now, bootable pen drive is preferred by the so many people to install the new windows operating system.Because with the bootable pen drive, formatting will be done fast and easy as well as no software is needed in this method.
You just need to follow some simple step to make your pen drive bootable:-

For Windows7 Users:-

Start your computer system, click on start button wand write cmd on the search box and click Enter,then cmd icon will appear on top of the panel.

Click right on the cmd icon and then click on run as administrator.

 Click on run as administrator opened the command prompt.

Now, For Windows8 Users:-

 For the command prompt icon, press windows key and then press c and now, same as before right click on command icon and then click on run as administrator.

It opens the command prompt as like in windows7. Now further steps are same for both windows7 and windows8 operating systems.
Write DISKPART on the command prompt and click enter

To prevent the other external hard disk, flash or pen drive from accidental format ,its better to disconnect these devices. Only connect the certain pen drive (4 GB,at least). Now type the list disk and press enter.

This, shows all the connect disk of the computer system like Disk o, Disk 1 ans so on with the description.Now you have to recognize your pen drive with the specific size. Disk 0 is the computer system disk where windows operating system is installed. Here, suppose Disk 1 is that pen drive that is going to  be a bootable pen drive.
Type Select Disk 1 and press enter, it selects the Disk 1 that is pen drive for all the next steps

Write Clean and press enter that will erase all data of pen drive.

Type Create Partition Primary and press enter that creates a primary partition in pen drive.

Type Select Partition 1,press enter that selects the created partition in the last step.

Type Format Fs=Ntfs Quick and hit enter that quickly format the pen drive with NTFS file type.

Type Active, press enter, that makes the partition as Active for the booting restarting the computer system. In case, this step is missed, the computer will not boot from the pen drive.

Now, Type the Exit and press enter to close the Diskpart and command prompt.

After the last step pen drive has become bootable.Further, copy all the files from the root of windows operating system setup DVD or ISO inside the pen drive root. For that open the windows setup file from the DVD or ISO and copy all the file by selecting with Ctrl+A and paste in the pen drive's root as like shown in figure
 

Finally, pen drive bootable process is complete for windows 7 or 8 operating system. Now you are able to format your computer system with the bootable pen drive-restart your computer , press F12 when BIOS screen appears that shows the option to boot from CD/DVD Drive, Hard Disk and Pen Drive. So select pen drive and hit enter. Now your system starts booting and ready to install windows OS.

Here , I would like to mention to avoid the formatting system again and again, protect your computer system from the malicious software like virus, worms, trojan ans others because these malicious software is the big reason of windows operating system corruption.If you want any kind of antivirus related information, or to fix your computer system issues regarding to antivirus you may call me on norton antivirus customer service phone number usa@1-844-798-3801