Can't format USB drive in NTFS format

Anonymous
2010-06-07T17:17:06+00:00

Can't format USB drive in windows 7

I recently bought a kingston 64GBUSB flash drive.  This works fine but I need to  format it in NTFS and windows format says it can't complete the format. Can anyone help?  answer here or at *** Email address is removed for privacy ***.  Thank ahead of time.

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Anonymous
2010-06-08T16:13:23+00:00

Hi,

By default, Windows provides the option to format a USB flash drive with FAT or FAT32 file systems only, but not with  NTFS (New Technology****File System.)

The reason behind this is that there are some disadvantages of NTFS usage in this case. First of all, the speed of saving on the flash drive decreases (but the speed of reading data from the drive is the same), and you have to be more careful to always remove the USB flash drive safely.

However, you can still format the Flash Drive in the NTFS format. Follow these steps for the same.

1.      Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port.

2.      Click Start, type devmgmt.msc in the Search textbox and press  Enter.

3.      Find Disk Drives and expand it.

4.      Find the USB flash drive you want to format, and double-click it. It opens the  Properties dialog box.

5.      Click Policies tab.

6.      By default, the  Optimize for quick removal option selected, switch it to Optimize for performance and then pressOK.

7.      Now open  Computer. Right click on the USB Flash Drive and select Format. The Format dialog box now appears.

8.      Select NTFS in the File System field.

9.      Press Start and wait while the process will be completed.

10.   Now your USB Flash Drive is formatted with NTFS format.

Regards,

Syed N – Microsoft Support

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-08-25T23:07:08+00:00

    Your best chance is low level format, your hard disk has bad sectors thats why it can not be formated.

    cristal disk info could help  you findout if there are bad sectors

    http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

    low level format

    https://www.google.ca/search?q=low+level+format&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab&gfe\_rd=cr&ei=kik-V5-yBOzE8gfp2bjQAw

    regards

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-08T22:16:47+00:00

    OMG, didn't even think to partition it! (Obviously)

    Thanks Mark 😀

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-08-08T20:12:25+00:00

    This is the best solution! Installed the program and in 1 or 2 minutes a formatted NTFS partion 29GB.

    Was reading forums for a hour and found this post, thanks!

    Bad MS! Disk Management is probably to basic for these kind of actions.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-06-26T10:12:52+00:00

    This does not work for me

    When i tried this, it says "Windows can not format the disk"

    i have an 1 tb hard drive which is infected by viruses

    at first i formatted it in NTFS type with complete format, then after completing the half of the process it says "windows is unable to format the disk" .

    then i formatted it with ExFAT and it is successfully formatted

    but now when i tried again it to convert to NTFS it is not working and again says window is unable to format the disk...

    Help please!!!

    Thanks

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