cant format pen drive

[hardcore_gamer29]

i have a 4gb pen drive and tried too many times but cant format it it says quit any disk utilities that are using it and there is no virus in it

 

[Deders]

What about quick format?

 

[HOSED]

I would also recommend trying a live Linux distro to do the format.

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

linux i have win7

 

[dma0991]

There might be a disk utility or your antivirus program trying to access your USB drive. Either disable these applications completely before formatting or run the disk formatting in Windows Safe Mode. Other alternative might be to format with diskpart.

 

[Doomer]

What's a pen drive?

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

There might be a disk utility or your antivirus program trying to access your USB drive. Either disable these applications completely before formatting or run the disk formatting in Windows Safe Mode. Other alternative might be to format with diskpart.

i did not have antivirus installed when i tried to format it how to do in safe mode?

 

[corkyg]

Pen drive = Thumb drive = flash media (USB). They do wear out. A 4GB drive is fairly long in the tooth. It just may have died of old age.

 

[HOSED]

Not to point out the obvious, have you rebooted your system then try the format ?

linux i have win7

If all else fails see : http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
(you will be running Linux from a bootable USB pen drive, and this will not alter your windows 7 system) This will rule out a windows issue and confirm a pen drive issue as CorkyG suggests.

 

[dma0991]

i did not have antivirus installed when i tried to format it how to do in safe mode?

Just restart, press F8 repeatedly and it should boot into Safe Mode. I recommended Safe Mode as it isolates any other program that might interfere. Try the diskpart method first.

Pen drive = Thumb drive = flash media (USB). They do wear out. A 4GB drive is fairly long in the tooth. It just may have died of old age.

I have a 256MB Kingston thumb drive that still works to this day. :awe:

 

[VirtualLarry]

Seriously? Just junk it and buy another one. They're like, what, $5?

 

[MongGrel]

A 4GB drive is fairly long in the tooth. It just may have died of old age.

:thumbsup:

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

hi sorry i am noob at this stuff when i pressed f8 all drive names came and i selected pen drive and it said ntldr is missing ctrl alt to restart lol and how to do it with disk part thanks

 

[HOSED]

http://www.spywarefixpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/windows-safe-mode.png
this is the menu you should see, if you do not wait a few seconds longer to tap F8 (the BIOS needs to be loaded to get to this screen).
It sounds as though you have accessed the boot menu (which you would use to boot from CD or Flash drive instead of the hard drive)