How to format a USB flash drive in standard and not very ways?

Many of us use flash drives - compact carriers of the most diverse information. USB flash drives have found their use almost everywhere. In the car, at work, at home - everywhere you can see these electronic trinkets. But, like any other electronic device, flash drives have a property to break sooner or later. A flash drive does not necessarily have to be completely and irrevocably, more often than not, they simply begin to receive recording errors. What do we do in such cases?

First of all, of course, we are trying to throw off important information from a broken flash drive. If this can be done, then you are definitely lucky. But most often the scenario unfolds quite differently. When connecting a USB flash drive to a computer or laptop, it is defined by the operating system as a storage medium with a size of 0 Mb. In this case, the information can no longer be saved, since it is necessary to format the USB flash drive.

But even at this stage, you may be caught in a dirty trick. Happens and such that it is impossible to format a flash drive. Windows starts formatting the media, but by the end of the operation, an information window is displayed indicating that the formatting can not be completed. This is the most sad outcome. Windows can not format the flash drive using standard tools. But, nevertheless, even in this case, there is a chance to save the information carrier.

You can try to replace the file system of the drive. To do this, use the Windows command line. To call the command line, you must click the "Start" button, then run and run the CMD command. Or it is easier to do it - press a combination of two keys Win and R, after that, in the appeared window, drive the CMD command. When a black command window opens before you, you must enter the following: Convert (your drive letter): / fs: ntfs / nosecurity / x. This command will convert the drive's file system to NTFS and then format it. If everything worked out, format the USB flash drive in the standard way. If not, read on.

If standard Windows tools did not do their job, you can try to format the USB flash drive using the HP USB Disk format tool. This small and that is important - a free program, very often restores already, it would seem, forever lost media. If you can save the drive, then after a successful restore, you need to format it using standard Windows tools. Well, if this program did not help, then we continue to use all methods for data recovery.

Now you need to try to format the USB flash drive using proprietary utilities for low-level formatting. To do this, you need to know the name of the manufacturer of your defective drive. If the manufacturer is known, then you need to go to its official website and there to find the program you need. This task is not easy, since all these sites are mainly English-speaking. But if you want, you can find everything. The main thing is to remember that when using an unsuitable program, the risk is great to ruin the flash drive forever. If you managed to find such a utility, then with 90% probability it will help you and the flash drive will work again.

If none of the methods described above have helped you and the USB flash drive has not worked, then, no matter how sad it may be, this flash drive can be safely thrown out. But if it contains very important information, then you can include such a drive in a specialized service center. There, professionals are more likely to be able to extract information from your drive and even repair it.

Now you know almost all the ways to repair a defective flash drive. Of course, there are many more exotic ways to restore drives, but the methods described in this article, as a rule, in most cases help.