Or you may try the following different diskpart cmd command line to format your usb disk with the following words. (F is the drive letter of your usb drive that should be replace by the drive letter of your own flash drive latter that appearred on your PC) Connect your flash drive or usb removable disk to PC and then open cmdĢ. Step 3 type ' attributes disk clear readonly' and enter How to format usb flash drive with cmdġ. Step 2 type ' select disk 1' if your usb is listed as disk 1, you may replace disk 1 with the actual disk that your usb shows and enter

If it still does not work, disable the write protection with cmd diskpart.Ĭonnect your usb drive to your computer and then open cmd and then type diskpart There is a small switch button on the side of the usb flash drive that you can switch and get it turned off.

You need to turn off the write protection mode at first. If your flash drive or external usb disk is write protected, Windows may can't format it. How to remove usb drive write protection with cmd There are several possible reasons why Windows reported it cannot format your disk or usb storage and here in this article we will tell you how to format removable usb/disk if Windows cannot format it. 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

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