Unable to format USB drive in Windows 10

Hi Harsh

If the usual methods do not work for you, try this:

Click your Start Button, then just type cmd

From the resulting list, right click Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'

Run this command and hit Enter:

diskpart

Run this command and hit Enter:

list disk

(Make note of the disk number you want to wipe and enter it into the next command - replace disknumber)

Run this command and hit Enter:

select disk disknumber

Run this command and hit Enter:

clean

Then close Command Prompt

Open Disk Management (accessible by right clicking your Start Button)

On that USB drive, you should now see it is just unallocated Space, right click that and choose 'New - Simple Volume', accept the defaults and apply that

I am unable to format USB drive in Windows 10.

Even when I tried copy paste few files from local drive, it is asking me admin permission.

I tried same thing in other laptop having windows 7 and it works fine.

In laptop having windows 10, I tried all possible ways which are by default available in windows  to format USB drive but none of them working.

Unlike in Windows 7.

Can somebody suggest how to format USB drive in windows 10? 

IF windows are not able to format USB drive then apply these manual steps as follows:

First open run command box > Now, write diskpart and hit enter > Once Diskpart is open > Now writing the commands, one by one.

Command****1: List disk

[Now, it will list Disk 0 and Disk 1 in your PC. Clearly Disk 0 is your hard disk and Disk 1 is the USB flash drive.]

Now, write the commands given below One by One.

Command 2: Select disk

Command 3:  clean

Command 4: create partition primary

Command 5: active

Command 6: select partition 1

Command 7: format fs=fat32

[In the above command fat32 is chosen as a file system, if you want to choose NTFS, you can choose that as well.]

It will take time. Do not close the window before it's completed.

This manual steps may help you to format the drive. Thanks

Thanks for explaining Sandra,

But I have already tried this. It fails while formatting.

As I have clearly mentioned in the problem statement - I am able to format, store information using Windows 7

But the same can not be done from the machine having Windows 10.

Whenever I plug-in the USB drive, it ask me to format it and I am unable to complete formatting even using command prompt.

I tried this, it doesn't work

Hi Harsh_1

Okay,at what command does tat process fail and what is the exact error you are seeing?

Please provide a screenshot of the commands . .