Format You Hard Drive or Flash drive or Pen Drive or Memory card using MS - DOS

Sometimes you may not be able to format your drive using normal windows format option.
This may be due to some background process running in the drive. This may be due to viruses.
Here’s a simple method to Format ur drive.

This will be useful when you get following types of errors.
"Unable to format"
"Windows was unable to complete format"
Note that the format of drive will be FAT32 if u do by this method. So not recommended for internal hard discs

• Goto Start -> Run.
• Type Cmd & press Enter.
• Type the following command line

Format X:
(Here X: refers to your removable disk drive letter. It can be any letter depends on ur drive letter)
• Press Enter.
You may also need to specify name for flash drive (Volume Label). Its not always nessesary to give a label. So u can also just click enter.
You will get a warning like below
“
WARNING: ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE: E WILL BE LOST?
Proceed with Format? ? y
Verifying …
“
Then it will continue the formatting.

If there is any running process in the flash drive. It may be due to some viruses
You may need to face few more steps like below shown
Format cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? ?
Type “Y” and enter
That’s it.
Again Sometimes you may get an error like below
“
invalid media or track 0 bad - disk unusable
“
Then the problem may be with hardware.