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ayoubi.94 Posts 4 Registration date Monday January 4, 2016 Status Member Last seen January 5, 2016 - Jan 4, 2016 at 01:45 PM
Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 - Jan 5, 2016 at 04:24 PM
Hello,
I put my flash memory in a lot of laptops, so yesterday it showed up "your drive need to be formatted....",I don't care about data in my flash so I clicked on format but it failed
i tried it a few times but didn't work :(
i tried chkdsk but it said "CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives"
PLEASE HELP

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Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,169
Jan 4, 2016 at 04:37 PM
Hello

I strongly suggest you try this tool:

https://ccm.net/downloads/tools/4639-hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool/
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ayoubi.94 Posts 4 Registration date Monday January 4, 2016 Status Member Last seen January 5, 2016
Jan 4, 2016 at 04:40 PM
I've tried this, and it said "device media is write-protected"
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Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,169 > ayoubi.94 Posts 4 Registration date Monday January 4, 2016 Status Member Last seen January 5, 2016
Jan 4, 2016 at 04:48 PM
You must remove the write protection.
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ayoubi.94 Posts 4 Registration date Monday January 4, 2016 Status Member Last seen January 5, 2016 > Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023
Jan 5, 2016 at 02:50 AM
I didn't make any write protection
how can I to remove it?
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Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,169
Jan 5, 2016 at 04:40 AM
Click start
then run regedit
go to this directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Currentcontrolset\control\
if you can't find StorageDevicePolicies under control folder
then make some new one. Follow this steps:

step 1:
go to this directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Currentcontrolset\control\
again and right click control folder

step 2:
select new, then click key and rename the new key #1 folder into
StorageDevicePolicies

step 3:
right click StorageDevicePolicies folder and select new DWORD(32-bit) Value
for 32-bit Operating System and select new DWORD(64-bit) Value
for 64-bit Operating System

step 4:
rename dword newer folder into WriteProtect, then double click WriteProtect
and change the value data into 0 with hexadecimal base, Then close regedit

step 5:
open my computer and refresh it 5 times without do anything to your usb, and
properly eject your flash drive

step 6:
plug in your usb again into your computer and format it using exfat instead of fat32
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ayoubi.94 Posts 4 Registration date Monday January 4, 2016 Status Member Last seen January 5, 2016
Jan 5, 2016 at 10:01 AM
I tried that,it took some time then it said "Windows can't format H. Check to see that the disk and drive are connected properly,make sure that the disk is not read-only, and then try again" :(
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Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,169
Jan 5, 2016 at 04:24 PM
Hi

Sorry but it seems that your flash drive is damaged.
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