I am having trouble with my thumb drive. I can format it okay with FAT32, but not NTFS. Both Full and Quick format both end with "The format did not complete successfully". I have also tried from the command prompt and GParted. GParted did not return any errors, but Windows would not recognize it. Any suggestions?
Try it from an elevated cmd prompt.
You could use #1-#11 in this tutorial (method 2) to do it.
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JK - You could open a command prompt and type;
diskpart
list disk
select disk # (be deadly sure it' the right disk!)
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit
exit
Thanks for the tips, Nate and Stu. Neither solution worked. Nate: the program succeeded, but it formatted my drive as FAT32.
If you used method 2 in that tutorial and typed format=ntfs I don't know how that could happen.
I have had flash drives I could not format to different that default. Maybe this is one.
You may need to try a different flash drive.
Sorry I could not have been more helpful. Good luck
I have been thinking similar thoughts. Let me post a screenshot, just for your benefit.
I did not do a full format, just for the sake of time, but believe me, after it finishes an hour later, it gives the same message.
I am still having trouble with my Event Viewer, so I cannot check the error. Later tonight I will do a Repair Install.
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