Pen drive format problem.

Tarka Dal · 23 Jul 2011

I have tried to format a pen drive. I have taken ownership of drive but I am still unable to format it. Any help appreciated.

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The conclusion to this thread was that the stick was rendered useless.

speedgamer01 · 23 Jul 2011

What error message do you get?

Tarka Dal · 23 Jul 2011

As pictured.

speedgamer01 · 23 Jul 2011

Go to the properties of the drive, and uncheck the read-only option.

Tarka Dal · 23 Jul 2011

As pictured.

speedgamer01 · 23 Jul 2011

Aha, than go to the security tab and add administrators to it.
Then allow full controll for both Admins and 'everyone'.
If that doesn't work you can use unlocker, open the pendrive and select everything then right click and unlock, then select delete.

Tarka Dal · 23 Jul 2011

As pictured.

JaidynM · 23 Jul 2011

Copy the files you need from the device to your computer and open Disk Management. Right click your device and format it from there. If that still doesn't work, format it as FAT32/exFAT rather than NTFS.

speedgamer01 · 23 Jul 2011

Runckle_SP1 said:

As pictured.

Hey, this is not in connection what i have written.

Tarka Dal · 23 Jul 2011

speedgamer01 said:

Runckle_SP1 said:

As pictured.

Hey, this is not in connection what i have written.

BTW thanks for your help guys.

Speedgamer: That was the outcome.

JaidynM: Outcome as pictured