Cannot convert flash drive to NTFS

VistaKing said:

I'm getting to the point where it won't allow it to format to NTFS even though its 32GB flash drive .

You even get an error when you try to convert from FAT32 to NTFS

Code:

convert X: /FS:NTFS

   Note

X is the Drive letter of the flash drive

the above mentioned code gets me : "CONVERT is not available for RAW drives"
WHAT THE **** IS HAPPENING ??

RAW means it does not have any file system for Windows to recognise. I had noticed it after you ran a full format with LLF Tool. It was thus clean and you were able to format it to FAT32.

Get going, format it to FAT32 and test it with H2testw as mentioned in post #38.

Guys hang on, I'm in the middles of a H2testw..... or should I cancel it ?
My pen drive is in FAT32 (according to 'Computer' )

No, let it go.

I am also running it on my 32GB pen drive.:)

clean all doesn't do anything other than what you had done already with the Low Level Format Tool - writing zeroes to all sectors. So you will only be repeating what you had already done.

Again you will asked to format with diskpart and again you will get the same results.

I see no point in it.

Here it is. OMG, this smells like bad news :-


Warning: Only 32746 of 32747 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
226.8 MByte OK (464512 sectors)
31.7 GByte DATA LOST (66599296 sectors)
Details:23.8 GByte overwritten (49949472 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
7.9 GByte corrupted (16649824 sectors)
1.5 KByte aliased memory (3 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000000e2d0000
Expected: 0x000000000e2d0000
Found: 0x00000000aa55aa55
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 19.6 MByte/s
Reading speed: 20.6 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

Yes, there you are. It is a fake drive and a 256MB at it.

My drive is only 15% finished. Ya, real drive with 32GB and at the end, I shall post the results for posterity.

Case closed then ?