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I have a USB Flash Drive. While formatting the drive with the Windows 7 it failed leaving the message which is:

windows was unable to complete the format

I can see the drive with the Windows Disk Manager, but it shows that it has a RAW file system, and any time I try to reformat it a second time, it simply says that It can't find the file or partition. Using DiskPart I've also not had very much luck as trying to use the FORMAT command results in an error. These are the commands I'm using and their output.

C:\>DISKPART

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: WINROID-PC

DISKPART> LIST DISK

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          149 GB      0 B
  Disk 1    Online         3816 MB      0 B
DISKPART> SELECT DISK 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> DETAIL DISK
SKYMEDI USB Drive USB Device
Disk ID: 00000001
Type   : USB
Status : Online
Path   : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only  : No
Boot Disk  : No
Pagefile Disk  : No
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : No
Clustered Disk  : No
  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
 Volume 4     G                RAW    Removable   3816 MB  Healthy

DISKPART> SELECT VOLUME 4
Volume 4 is the selected volume.
DISKPART> FORMAT RECOMMENDED OVERRIDE
    0 percent completed

DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrect.
See the System Event Log for more information.

DISKPART> FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="Windows7" QUICK COMPRESS
    0 percent completed

DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrect.
See the System Event Log for more information.
DISKPART> clean all

DiskPart has encountered an error: The system cannot find the file specified.
See the System Event Log for more information.

DISKPART> list partition
There are no partitions on this disk to show.
DISKPART> online disk
Virtual Disk Service error:
This disk is already online.
DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly
Disk attributes cleared successfully.
DISKPART> convert mbr

DiskPart successfully converted the selected disk to MBR format.

DISKPART> create partition primary

DiskPart has encountered an error: The system cannot find the file specified.
See the System Event Log for more information.

DISKPART>

As you can see, no luck. I googled so much but no answer satisfy me. Also I follow these steps. But no solution.

When I plug the drive in, the computer makes a beep noise as though it has recognised something, but nothing appears in My Computer

How can I format the disk so I can use it again?

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Format usb to NTFS using cmd on windows

Press the windows logo key and type cmd then press enter.

I'm assuming that you are not a tech guy/girl but you are not afraid of the command prompt (cmd) either.

At the prompt type the following commands one by one in this order: 

diskpart

This will show you available disk and size of each disk which would help you to select the right disk in the next step:

list disk

Substitute the x by the disk number, most likely would be thisk number 1, you will know by the size of the disk shown in previous step):

select disk x

clean

create partition primary

At this command, it will take a couple of minutes, you will see the progress of the formatting shown in percentage, once the process shows completed then type the last command:

format fs=NTFS quick

exit

Hopefully your USB is fixed.

habanany
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I met the same situation,too.Referring to someone's opinion,you can replace the command clean to clean all.Finally,I ended up with format fs=NTFS without quick.

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