[electrix]

I plug it in, click on it, and it says it needs to be formatted and asks if I'd like to do it now. I click yes, start, ok, and then an error message: Windows was unable to complete the format. I tried going into disk management to format the drive; no luck. Couldn't even find an option to format the drive. I've read through some other threads posing similar problems but couldn't find anything useful. At this point, am I out a USB Flash Drive or is there anything I can do to make it usable again? The files on the drive are unimportant; they can be sacrificed.

[JohnWill]

In Disk Management, right click on the drive, you'll see the format option.

[electrix]

There is no option in disk management for formatting the drive.

[JohnWill]

Sorry, I'm not buying that. Let's see a screen shot of Disk Management after you right click on the graphic of the drive in question.

To post a screen shot of the active window, hold the Alt key and press the PrtScn key. Open the Windows PAINT application and Paste the screen shot. You can then use PAINT to trim to suit, and save it as a JPG format file. To upload it to TSG, open the full reply window and use the Manage Attachments button to upload it here.

[electrix]

Okay, here it is. Am I in the wrong place?

[JohnWill]

Are you right clicking in the right hand graphic that's under the drop-down? It appears you clicked on the left hand description, that won't work.

Here's what I see when I click where I'm talking about. Note that there is a format option.

[Rich-M]

Covered up in screen print is a removable disk E that is 3.78 gb...isn't that the flash drive?

[Elvandil]

Try the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool.

[JohnWill]

Originally Posted by Rich-M

Covered up in screen print is a removable disk E that is 3.78 gb...isn't that the flash drive?

Yep, and the black seems to indicate it's not formatted.

[electrix]

Had to partition it. Thanks!