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Windows cannot format my thumb drive

Discussion in 'Windows OS' started by taylub, Mar 22, 2008.

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  1. taylub TechSpot Enthusiast

    I have a 2gb cruzer micro thumb drive and it has worked before in the past but I needed to use it for a windows boot disk and that requires fat32 format, I formatted it to that and now that all of the files are off of it windows tells me every time I plug it in that it needs to be formatted so I click format and it says “windows was unable to complete the format” any suggestions would be great.





    Ok I just figured it out. Use the windows disk and go into the partiton manager and reformat it there and turn the computer off before it starts installing windows :)
    taylub, Mar 22, 2008
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  3. taylub TechSpot Enthusiast

    thank you I will download that for future use :)
    taylub, Mar 22, 2008
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