USB flash drive not formatting

Question

I'm currently trying to format a usb drive to be used as a Win10 home boot drive.
It has previously been a Fedora workstation and Fedora Server boot drive.
I used the DISKPART utility in the windows 10 shell to wipe the drive, which had had a efi partition on it.
Now, whenever I try to format it, it fails and says "The volume was created successfully but not formatted" and "The system cannot find the file specified."

Answer 1

Try doing this from an elevated command prompt:

diskpart
list disk
select disk X
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=Fat32 quick

If Windows can't recover the drive then you will need to boot to Linux and format it in a way that is visible from both Linux and Windows. Like FAT32 or exFAT depending on the size of the drive.