Now sometime your flash disk or diskette might have corrupt data, don't worrry just format it. follow these simple steps:

1. Double click "My Computer" on your desktop. It opens a window with all the available disks.

2. Right-click, your "Removable Disk" or "3 1/2 Floppy"

3. Then click "Format" it would bring out a window

4. you can either choose "Quick Format" option to make the formatting faster.

5. then click the format buttooon. it formats the drive.

When it finishes it show you the "format complete" dialog, click "ok" and it is done.
you have a formatted disk

Dear,
I have followed your instructions but
it giving me this:
capacity:unknow capacity
file system: FAT
Allocation unit size: Default allocation size

and if a press start
it gives windows was unable to complete

-kasongo

Very helpful for those who don't know how to format.

LoL I haven't used a floppy disk for years, flash drives FTW!

Also depending on the size of your flash drive you may want to use NTFS instead of FAT.
The maximum file size that can be stored on a FAT drive is 4GB, where as NTFS is unlimited.

Even I haven't used floppies since ages!
Most flash drives don't have more than 4GB capacity. So no question of NTFS here.

I tried formatting my transcend JetFlash and I gave me these two options: FAT or FAT32

What is the difference between the two. Also I would like to know the difference between a normal format and a quick format. The quick format is really very quick!


Update:

I did some googling myself and came to the conclusion that when you run a normal format, it deletes all your files and check the entire disc for bad errors. But when you try to quick format it, it does not check for those bad sectors.

Checking for bad sectors takes up most of the time. therefore it can take even longer if the disc actually has bad sectors!

It is advisible to check your dissc for bad sectors once in a while if you had earlier used quick format. If you instaled WindowsXP on a partition that was formatted by using the Quick format option, you can also check your disk by using the chkdsk /r command after the installation of WindowsXP is completed.

This post has been edited by angad619: Dec 13 2007, 06:08 AM

Trap Feedbacker,
What are you trying to format?
Without that information, I can't really help you. Keep in mind that this is a 2 year old topic

Just a quick question, what should be the partition type or file type in windows Xp. should you choose, FAT or FAT32.

um, try formatting the device through cmd with format then the drive letter, that usually works.