help!!! i can't format my pen drive

**mikethien** · 04-09-2010

when i format my pendrive, popup a message "the drive in disk f cannot be formatted",any help?

**mikethien** · 04-09-2010

windows also pop up a error "windows was unable to complete the format"

**Expertz** · 04-09-2010

Have you tried using Parted Magic which is a Linux based Live CD (you boot the computer with it) including partitioning tools. With it you can format internal and external hard drives as well as the pen drive. You can also clone your pen drive, to create a full backup, it has many such features, download Parted Magic 4.9 now.

**mikethien** · 06-09-2010

thanks for ur reply! other than parted magic, is it still hav any software? i didn't hav linus OS. thanks.

**premprs1** · 28-09-2010

Originally Posted by mikethien

windows also pop up a error "windows was unable to complete the format"

windows also pop up a error "windows was unable to complete the format

**Ernesto4** · 29-09-2010

This is quiet important where your hard must be properly formatted. If not then there can be two reason. Either the drive has lots of bad sector or it is very slow in performance. Use Windows bootable disc to format. But if the same fails then you will need to add a new hard drive there and use this just for storing your data as a secondary drive.