@@evanray8413 thank you! I figured but I was just double checking. The title threw me for a loop, but then I thought well HDD can be used as external USB drive. Duh, lol.
This has solved a real headache of a problem I was having with a USB stick. Lesson learned that you can't always easily swap a USB stick between Windows NTFS & Linux EXT4 filing systems. The memory stick worked perfectly fine in Linux even with NTFS, but Windows just wouldn't mount it or even format it when I tried. Third party software seemed to be able to format it, but the problem appeared to be I couldn't get the USB to take a letter - hence without a path, Windows won't mount it for access. DiskPart wouldn't even clear it - your attributes command must have done something to allow everything to start working again. Nightmare nearly over now haha, thank you sir!
Thank You for making and uploading this Video .. I'm having a Problem with a USB Drive .. I followed your instructions - but got this .. "" DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly Disk attributes cleared successfully. DISKPART> clean DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk. DISKPART> create partition primary No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created). DISKPART>
I had a pendrive which was used on MacOS and the disk manager wouldn't format it or give it a letter. Then I found this video and with the command prompt inputs it worked like a charm. Thanks dude!
thank you Brian, been coming for years for every screw up i did to my pc, cant believe its now my flash drive, followed step by step and fixed it perfectly, thanks again.
I was using rufus to write this thumb drive and windows defender didnt like something, halted the operation and rendered the drive useless, providing no further info. This got it working again ! thank you thank you.
I had this problem on Windoze 10, and this is too much work. I normally use Linux, so I put the USB drive in Linux and took care of it. Microsoft needs to fix this problem, because I got a feeling it is more common than we might think. Good video for anyone without a Linux computer.
Amazingly, your tip solved my problem. In my case partition was not seen, but volume was seen. I selected volume and rest i did as you said. It is so good tip. Thanks a lot.
Britec is the best. Every tutorial I have watched in this channel has never failed. Still following you guys since 2017. I just subbed here with my other account. Thanks again men. You are a genius
I have tried all the other ways to fix my usb but I wasn't able to fix it. I tried the first method is this video and I was able to fix it in seconds! 👍 Thanks alot!
Lovely, I don't regretting clicking on your vidoe, almost gave up on the 1st video I came across when a gent stated it's corrupted or unretrievable. Clearly you know your stuff!
awesome video !! but i had a problem saying that no volume was select, after a little research i got it to work :) if anyone is having the same problem as me, here is how i did it DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 465 GB 1024 KB Disk 1 Online 931 GB 1024 KB * Disk 2 Online 30 GB 29 GB DISKPART> sel dis 2 Disk 2 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> cre par pri size=30000 DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition. DISKPART> sel par 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> active DiskPart marked the current partition as active. DISKPART> format fs=fat32 quick 100 percent completed DiskPart successfully formatted the volume. DISKPART> assign letter=F(a letter of ur choice) DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.
A relatively little known and forgotten shortcut feature of diskpart that has been in there since the days of NT is the fact you only need to type in enough of most commands and arguments that will uniquely identify them, in most cases the 1st 3 characters of most commands and arguments are enough eg: lis dis sel dis 2 att dis clear readonly cle cre par pri ass letter=z for quick
Thank you!!! you really helped me my problem was "This disk is write protected" I tried other solutions on google and youtube, but non of them worked, but your method is works really well.
IT WORKED IT WORKED IT ACTUALLY WORKED!!! I built a custom gaming PC and I was reusing an older CPU so I saved up some money to buy a new one, but I wanted to make sure that I knew everything before I did it cause I didn’t wanna accidentally forget to do a step and possibly risk ruiningmy motherboard so people said that I had to update my bios before I installed this new CPU and I had a flash travel laying around which I used before but it wasn’t letting me format it to FAT 32 and it wasn’t letting me format it to anything in fact, but I used it before so I knew that it worked at one point so after watching this video, it really freaking worked
I can't thank you enough for this vid. I was able to fix my acer computer by using this method to format my internal hard drive. I just had to delete all the partitions and format the full unallocated space using diskpart and follow your instructions which were very well done and easy to follow and see. All I had to do after doing that was change it to GPT and I was able to install a fresh Windows 10 OS. Cheers. I've been trying to fix this thing for over a year and if not for finding your vid I would have given up. So you saved me large bud, thank-you.
Holy.. someone actually knows what he's talking about. It took me 3 articles, 5-6 videos on RUclips and all of them didn't fix my issue. Thank you @Britec09 your method actually saved my USB!
I went through so many videos and all of them were missing the part where you enter "format fs=fat32 quick" thanks for the video as my USB had many issues after installing the Zorin boot media
Wow! Brain Its been 1 year and 1 million views since you did "How to fix USB drive not recognized in Windows 10" Its crazy how they tried to kill DOS but you can still do the Dos style commands in windows 11 decades later 🤓👍🏻
Thank you so much for this video, I managed to restore 3 non functional USB sticks just by formatting them and than using this tutorial, nothing else worked for me
Thanks for the tutorial. Worked like a champ. At the end, you checked the freshly cleaned, partitioned, and formatted drive for "viruses." Where might a virus reside on that drive, at this point?
Wow, you are a tech god. I try everything online, and your solutions work fine every time for different things. This might be the 12 issue I faced and solved by you again. Thanks a lot for making our problems a little easier 🙂
Awesome! I love it when you show and instruct us on how to properly use the command prompt. I am somewhat familiar with this from the old DOS days, but could not remember all the commands. That's how I first learned computers. The command prompt is very useful but sometimes scary. That's one of the reasons why I love it when you do these videos on it. Way too many commands for me to remember. But still it's kinda fun to do. Thank you Brian.
Thank you for this tutorial! I managed to format an Samsung EVO 8 used previously as system disk in an desktop computer, than as an USB drive. With windows disk management utility I had no options to format entire disk but thanks to your tutorial, it was very simple.👍
Thank you so very much. This was driving me crazy. So what is the root cause of USB drives that were working fine to suddenly go readonly? Is this a Windows security issue?
After i write "clean" and run it says this error - DiskPart has encountered an error: G/C The request could not be executed due to a device problem. See the System Event Log for more information. what should i do
How can you remember so much of the commands in rectifying problems, I'm in awe of your knowledge, keep up the good work, your videos are very helpful. 👍 😎
"/f /r /x" The "/f" isn't needed. Both "/r" and "/x" imply "/f", so "/f" will be run automatically when either of the other 2 switches are used. The exception is "/r /scan".
this helped. I formatted it in the usual way, but it wasn't letting me 'shrink volume' (to create a second partition?) but after following the vid it let me do it. thx
common USB drive problem solved. Drop us a LIKE 👍
One question does this same method work with a HDD or just thumb drive?
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Both.
@@evanray8413 thank you! I figured but I was just double checking. The title threw me for a loop, but then I thought well HDD can be used as external USB drive. Duh, lol.
Hey, Hi there.
When I tried to create the partition, the ststem told me there's no space for the operation
Hi, in my case, it says 0 percent completed when I hit enter after format fs+ntfs quick. Why is this so? is there a solution for this?
Still saving lives 2 years after the original upload, thanks man
This has solved a real headache of a problem I was having with a USB stick. Lesson learned that you can't always easily swap a USB stick between Windows NTFS & Linux EXT4 filing systems. The memory stick worked perfectly fine in Linux even with NTFS, but Windows just wouldn't mount it or even format it when I tried. Third party software seemed to be able to format it, but the problem appeared to be I couldn't get the USB to take a letter - hence without a path, Windows won't mount it for access.
DiskPart wouldn't even clear it - your attributes command must have done something to allow everything to start working again. Nightmare nearly over now haha, thank you sir!
can u explain me in detail what to do
Thank You for making and uploading this Video ..
I'm having a Problem with a USB Drive ..
I followed your instructions - but got this ..
""
DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly
Disk attributes cleared successfully.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> create partition primary
No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient
free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify
different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the
maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk
partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no
more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended
partition, (only logical drives may be created).
DISKPART>
I had a pendrive which was used on MacOS and the disk manager wouldn't format it or give it a letter. Then I found this video and with the command prompt inputs it worked like a charm. Thanks dude!
Damn after watching 25 videos, I have finally found video that solved my problem. Literally I was so fed up that I was gonna crush my usb.
Thank you a 1000 times. I tried it all, only your solution worked
thank you Brian, been coming for years for every screw up i did to my pc, cant believe its now my flash drive, followed step by step and fixed it perfectly, thanks again.
I was using rufus to write this thumb drive and windows defender didnt like something, halted the operation and rendered the drive useless, providing no further info. This got it working again ! thank you thank you.
I spent hours looking for a solution... THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I thought my USB is a goner after I used it to download some file to fix my phone, but now it working again, thank you very much 💕
This also worked on a faulty USB stick. But did full format, it took a while but now works great thanks.
I had this problem on Windoze 10, and this is too much work. I normally use Linux, so I put the USB drive in Linux and took care of it. Microsoft needs to fix this problem, because I got a feeling it is more common than we might think. Good video for anyone without a Linux computer.
Thank you! Can't believe how simply and easy this was. You explained it very well
Amazingly, your tip solved my problem. In my case partition was not seen, but volume was seen. I selected volume and rest i did as you said. It is so good tip. Thanks a lot.
Britec is the best. Every tutorial I have watched in this channel has never failed.
Still following you guys since 2017. I just subbed here with my other account. Thanks again men. You are a genius
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It worked like a dream and rescued an unusable USB drive.
I have tried all the other ways to fix my usb but I wasn't able to fix it. I tried the first method is this video and I was able to fix it in seconds! 👍 Thanks alot!
Lovely, I don't regretting clicking on your vidoe, almost gave up on the 1st video I came across when a gent stated it's corrupted or unretrievable. Clearly you know your stuff!
awesome video !! but i had a problem saying that no volume was select, after a little research i got it to work :) if anyone is having the same problem as me, here is how i did it
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 1024 KB
Disk 1 Online 931 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 2 Online 30 GB 29 GB
DISKPART> sel dis 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> cre par pri size=30000
DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.
DISKPART> sel par 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> active
DiskPart marked the current partition as active.
DISKPART> format fs=fat32 quick
100 percent completed
DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.
DISKPART> assign letter=F(a letter of ur choice)
DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.
Saved my day, thanks. Very easy and clear instructions helped. Other vids not really helped. This worked first and every time.
A relatively little known and forgotten shortcut feature of diskpart that has been in there since the days of NT is the fact you only need to type in enough of most commands and arguments that will uniquely identify them, in most cases the 1st 3 characters of most commands and arguments are enough eg:
lis dis
sel dis 2
att dis clear readonly
cle
cre par pri
ass letter=z
for quick
that is correct, I try and keep full commands so people learn easier
your videos are honestly legendary, by far my favourite tech support youtuber on this platform
Fantastic! I've tried dos commands and did not work. Added "Clean" and "create primary" to my steps and it worked!!! Thanks Britec09!!
Thank you!!! you really helped me my problem was "This disk is write protected" I tried other solutions on google and youtube, but non of them worked, but your method is works really well.
This is perfect!! I've been searching for an hour for this walkthrough. Thanks!!
The only video that actually fixed my issue.
thanks a lot, the only person who actually helped with a working instruction guide. I thought i fried my usb stick or something
I gave up though i need a new USB drive this video fix my drive and it 100% works
Thankyou for saving me loads of trouble. Did it and it works.
IT WORKED IT WORKED IT ACTUALLY WORKED!!! I built a custom gaming PC and I was reusing an older CPU so I saved up some money to buy a new one, but I wanted to make sure that I knew everything before I did it cause I didn’t wanna accidentally forget to do a step and possibly risk ruiningmy motherboard so people said that I had to update my bios before I installed this new CPU and I had a flash travel laying around which I used before but it wasn’t letting me format it to FAT 32 and it wasn’t letting me format it to anything in fact, but I used it before so I knew that it worked at one point so after watching this video, it really freaking worked
Wow Thanks a lot man. Still now working. This is the real content.
That was so seamless and straightforward your steps, thank you 🙏🏻
This is the only solution that worked for my USB drive. Thank you!
Thank you so much Sir🙏🙏. It really worked
Thank you, this worked perfectly! This helped saved my USB stick. You saved me a lot of time and headache!
I can't thank you enough for this vid. I was able to fix my acer computer by using this method to format my internal hard drive. I just had to delete all the partitions and format the full unallocated space using diskpart and follow your instructions which were very well done and easy to follow and see. All I had to do after doing that was change it to GPT and I was able to install a fresh Windows 10 OS. Cheers. I've been trying to fix this thing for over a year and if not for finding your vid I would have given up. So you saved me large bud, thank-you.
Thank you!!!! This video came in time to prevent me from throwing away a couple of "damaged" flash drives.
I love the content... keep them coming :-)
Thanks for watching
Me too.
Holy.. someone actually knows what he's talking about. It took me 3 articles, 5-6 videos on RUclips and all of them didn't fix my issue.
Thank you @Britec09 your method actually saved my USB!
I went through so many videos and all of them were missing the part where you enter "format fs=fat32 quick" thanks for the video as my USB had many issues after installing the Zorin boot media
Thanks you! This work great! I literally tried every other thing I could find on RUclips before finally fixing the issue with your video.
Wow! Brain Its been 1 year and 1 million views since you did "How to fix USB drive not recognized in Windows 10"
Its crazy how they tried to kill DOS but you can still do the Dos style commands in windows 11 decades later 🤓👍🏻
I should of probably titled it windows11 because am on Windows 11, but its the same thing really
Thank you so much for this video, I managed to restore 3 non functional USB sticks just by formatting them and than using this tutorial, nothing else worked for me
You are welcome!
Was just having this problem, and your Video Came right on time. Thnx
Glad it helped
Thanks for the tutorial. Worked like a champ. At the end, you checked the freshly cleaned, partitioned, and formatted drive for "viruses." Where might a virus reside on that drive, at this point?
"Attributes disk clear readonly"-trick worked for me. Thanks :) I could format via windows GUI after that was done
you just saves my USB 3.1`s life thank you sir
Litreally recovered a small batch of Sandisk 32GB drives this way. 🙏Thank you so much!
thank you, I was going to buy a new usb memory stick but you saved the day
Thank you for this, saved my 128gb usb! Earned a sub.
Excellent, I could not format a thumb drive after making it multi-bootable. This fixed it!
Glad it helped!
This is by far the best help with this issue!🎉
Thanks i was ready to put my 64GB stick in the bin, but you saved it Thankyou very much...
Wow, you are a tech god. I try everything online, and your solutions work fine every time for different things. This might be the 12 issue I faced and solved by you again. Thanks a lot for making our problems a little easier 🙂
Your solution worked. Thank you so much. I thought my usb has hardware problem.
Awesome! I love it when you show and instruct us on how to properly use the command prompt.
I am somewhat familiar with this from the old DOS days, but could not remember all the commands. That's how I first learned computers. The command prompt is very useful but sometimes scary.
That's one of the reasons why I love it when you do these videos on it. Way too many commands for me to remember. But still it's kinda fun to do.
Thank you Brian.
You're very welcome!
Thanks! You really made that so easy to follow. You're a Godsend. Thank you so very much.
Thanks for the donation 👍
Thank you for this tutorial! I managed to format an Samsung EVO 8 used previously as system disk in an desktop computer, than as an USB drive. With windows disk management utility I had no options to format entire disk but thanks to your tutorial, it was very simple.👍
I was struggling man u are the best this video get five stars it was really helpful thanks ❤️
thank you so much brother... you saved my 2 64gig usb's
This is the only video that worked for me. Thank you so much.
Thanks man I can't express how grateful I am for this tutorial
very very good. Took me 5 minutes to solve this problem, after many hours of frustration
thank you this is the only video that worked. THANK YOU SO MUCH👍
Aye it worked! Thanks for your help :)
I was going to throw my 240gb NVME but you saved it thank you so much
I solved this problem today without using cmd
I just created the new simple volume from the disk management and it fixed
Thank you so very much. This was driving me crazy. So what is the root cause of USB drives that were working fine to suddenly go readonly? Is this a Windows security issue?
I followed the steps and it work, thankyou
After i write "clean" and run it says this error - DiskPart has encountered an error: G/C The request could not be executed due to a device problem.
See the System Event Log for more information.
what should i do
try a different format. Mine failed on fat 32 but worked on ntfs.
Its working Thank you very much ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks to you I have my first working USB! Cause I was never good at this kinda stuff and was so confused why it wouldn't format.
You are a genious sir!! It worked like a charm. Thank you very much for your help, you have a new subscriber to your channel.
thanks my dude, in my case it initiated formatting but could never be completed. i just waited for it to finish like a moron till I found this video.
Thank you. You just save me some money and wish I had found you earlier. I've thrown away flash drives in the past because of the this problem.
Searched hours and your video helped thanks :)
still working 2 years later thanks
thanks man ,i was trying from 2 hours !!
Oh man the cmd method works perfectly thank you
Great video! Your clear and concise information helped me very well. Thank you!
Thank you very much with this video i saved a usb drive.
Glad I could help. Don't forget hit the subscribe button. I appreciate it. Thanks!
Thank You, you saved my 64g flash drive. I really thought it was done/fried.
Thanx for that. I haven't come across this issue but have bookmarked this video. Could you have done this from the Windows Disk manager??
you deserve an award! Thank you so much!!!!!!
How can you remember so much of the commands in rectifying problems, I'm in awe of your knowledge, keep up the good work, your videos are very helpful. 👍 😎
Thanks buddy ❤❤ I appreciate your work 👏👏
Thank you, this is actually saved my SD! Worked perfectly..
"/f /r /x" The "/f" isn't needed. Both "/r" and "/x" imply "/f", so "/f" will be run automatically when either of the other 2 switches are used. The exception is "/r /scan".
You are the STAR... Thank you very much...👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you! Fixed my USB perfectly!
Thank you so much you saved my usb we both thank you for saving his life👍
this helped. I formatted it in the usual way, but it wasn't letting me 'shrink volume' (to create a second partition?) but after following the vid it let me do it. thx
Thank you you saved my usb drive 😅
Thanks a lot!!
Excellent video, thanks for the guide. Worked like a charm.
It's very helpful Sir. Thank you 🙏
thank you so much, finally i was able to format my usb
Exactly what I needed, thanks!
wonderful, I thought my usb is gone but I tried this method and worked. :-) Thanks
It worked for me, thanks my guy, u saved me 👏
Thankz for the wonderfull video. Solved my problem. Liked & subscribed. 😊