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Cannot Format Flash Disk

Cannot format your flash disk?Do not worry! The data recovery software is able to recover the formatted data on your flash disk. Are you a frequent user of flash discs? Have you ever run into such a Gordian knot as flash disk unformatted? Are you still worrying about the data loss from your flash drive? What would you do if it occurs to you that your flash disk cannot be formatted?

Flash disk cannot be formatted:

It happens time and time again that important files are lost from flash drives due to unintentional deletion or formatting, but it happens even more often that a flash memory is not able to be formatted. And both would lead to data loss. In that case, you might as well recover your lost files by using the data recovery software.

I have the 8 GB flash disk which cannot be formatted. Whenever I connect it to my PC, it always says" Flash drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now?" I clicked "yes", but it still reminds me of that question. Oh, god, what's going wrong with it? Is there someone who can help me?

"Mom、mom! Come over right here!" I hurried to the bedroom where my daughter called me for help, "look, mom, there is something wrong with my USB drive!" An error message was given to us that the disk is not found, and it cannot be formatted, too. With all my knowledge I am not able to solve this problem alone. Then, I thought about the cyber sphere, and I hope there should be some helpful methods for us. Beg for your help, my dear net friends.

Scenarios of flash disk cannot be formatted:

1. See if there is a write/read only lock switch on the disk. Flash disks cannot be formatted when they are set as write/read only.

2. Employ a secure tool to scan and kill the virus if necessary. Flash drives are apt to be attacked by varieties of viruses such as malware, so you have to examine them regularly.

3. The corruption of computer system can cause disk unformatted problem, too.

4.Unformatted problems can happen if the flash drive is inferior or it just ran out of its service life.

How to handle the problem of flash disk cannot be formatted?

Similar cases just happen time after time, but the good news is, flash drive users can get help from a variety of sources. You cannot format your flash drive when it shows not formatted error and RAW drive error. You can remove your headaches through the methods below:

First, try your flash drive on several different electronic devices like computers, if you still get the message" Flash drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now", move to the next step.

Second, if there are some important files on the problematic flash disk, you are required to recover them first. One of the best ways to retrieve data from flash discs is to restore them by the data recovery software.

Recover data from flash disk

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the flash disk to your computer and run the software to scan the flash disk for lost files.

1Download the data recovery program and install it on your PC. Then, run the software.
2Get the program to detect the drives on your computer and locate the flash disk.
3Select the files types that you want to restore and get them scanned by the data recovery software
4Preview the scanned data and choose the files that you would like them to be recovered;
5Get down to recovering.

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