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USB RAW formating
hello! i'm new at the forums i've been checking out many answers to a similar problem but i can't seem to solve it, the trouble lays in here: i had my USB-flash memory working out fine till one day i was unable to open, and windows asked me to format to proceed, as i didn't care for what was inside i clicked yes, but after a while it said windows wasn't able to format.Then i read some possible fixes around the web and wound up at windows computer management and i saw the file system was converted to RAW, so i needed to convert the file system to NTFS or FAT whatsoever, the problem is that i need to format to do so, but then i read that i can delete the volume and recreating it to get it formated, unfortunately the delete volume option(on the right-click menu) was grayed out, so i went to cmd instead and tryed to do it manually to say so, but then when i was at diskpart and pressed enter after typing "delete volume override" (i'm skiping a lot of steps ) a message telling me i couldn't delete it appeared so i went on info. about how to do so, and the solution was setting the volume as "active" wich i had to do using diskpart because the option at computer management was disabled too.
So after setting it to active and finally being able to delete the volume
the newt step was creating a new simple volume using the instance of the previous, so this time i tryed it using computer management right-clicking on the "unallocated" square of the device and then "new simple volume" so a wizard appeared and guided me trough the process and then it had to format before creating it, i chose FAT 32 then it took some time, the "loading- pointer" appeared and after a while,, nothing! there was no new volume and nothing! the disk/volume/partition was still as unallocated, sending me back to the start, please some help me if you know a way to convert the RAW system to NTFS or FAT, or a way to farmat it, i would really apreciate it. and i don't want some tool to recover my RAW files i don't care about the files, i want my USB usable, i have been trough the web for more than 5 hours. i've tried so many things please help me, i know my usb is not totally lost cuz the RAW file system is just another file system not compatible with windows. thank you.