Unable to format new 8GB Sony Pen Drive

[Jorgea]

I purchased a new 8GB pen drive of Sony last month. I have not used it much. For my project related work I plugged my Sony pen drive to a college computer. When I came back home there were a bunch of viruses that had invaded my pen drive. When I tried to format the pen drive, I was not able to format it. Please help.

[Bon-Z]

You need to scan your pen drive using your anti-virus. Update your anti-virus before scanning. Scan your entire system before scanning the pendrive. And then scan the pen drive. Try the AVAST aniti-virus which is really helpul. I am using AVAST and I am well protected from any virus/trojan. Once scanned your pen drive, then try formatting it.

[Regina]

Try to format your Sony pen drive from the Command Prompt. Click on the start menu, select run, in the run box type 'cmd' and hit enter. Now on the command prompt screen enter the pendrive drive name follwed by : and enter. Now type 'format' followed by pendrive drive name and enter. This will help you format your pen drive.

[Simond]

I also had a similar issue with my Transcend 4GB pendrive. I was not able to format the pendrive. I was able to scan it. But when I tried to foramt it, I could not do so. I even tried to format the pendrive from the DOS prompt, but even here I was not able to format it. I took the pendrive to the dealer from whom I had purchased it and got it replaced. Take it to the dealer from whom you bought it and get replaced till it is in warrenty as the pendrive might have gone bad.