The following table lists the most common media descriptor bytes: Byte Capacity Media Size and Type F0 2. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. The device is not ready. Disk is not formatted The disk in drive A is not formatted. Do you want to format it now? Need more help? Expand your skills.
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Are you searching for why Windows could not format a partition during installation? Read " Windows could not format a partition on disk 0 " to find the solution.
Before we get to the solutions, we would like to tell the possible reasons for this error. In this way you may avoid the possibility of getting such error.
Normally, five factors may lead to Windows was unable to complete the format:. Since formatting is a kind of writing operation, you need to remove the write protection before formatting it. How do you know it is write protected? Well, copy something to it.
If you see the following message: "The disk is write protected. Remove the write protection or use another disk", then it is write protected indeed.
Files stored on hard drives usually occupy many sectors. Sectors are the smallest units for data storage. If a sector is damaged and cannot be read or write, it is called bad sector. Bad sector can affect the formatting operation as well as the data recovery operation. What caused bad sectors? Bad quality, excessive defragmentation, or falsely unplug the USB drive, etc.
Physical damage is another important reason that leads to storage device inaccessible, so Windows requires formatting it. Professional repair center can repair the bad spots but the cost is not low at all.
So you may consider changing another removable disk. Since USB drives are often carried by users and are connected to various computers, they are more likely to get virus infection than other hard drives.
The virus often fills the USB drives with dangerous files and makes them out of service. The last reason for Windows was unable to format removable disk is that there is no partition on the hard drive. However, you will find there is a drive letter for it. Thus you are able to see the removable disk in Disk Management and then receive the formatting suggestion. As formatting is based on partition instead of unallocated space, Windows is unable to complete the formatting.
If your USB drive can't be formatted properly and reports "Windows was unable to complete the format", please do not abandon the drive before you have tried the solutions below to fix this issue. However, please note that all these solutions will not work if the USB drive is physically damaged.
If there is no partition on the removable disk, only unallocated space is presented, then you will need to recreate a partition on it. There are three ways for you to create new partition. Its concise interface and user-friendly operations has helped million of users manage their hard drives better. When it comes to creating partition, do the followings:. Then click on the removable disk and choose " Create Partition ".
Then click " OK " to continue. Step 3: Back to the main interface and you will see there is a partition on the removable disk.
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