Sometimes in windows you may face that when you try to format an usb disk by right clicking on it and choosing the format option, windows displays ¨Unable to format¨ message. In such a case there is an alternative way to format your disk. Please follow these steps to get it done:
1. Gor to Start->Run
2. Type ´cmd´ and press enter.
3. The windows command prompt will open.
4. Type ¨FORMAT H:\¨. Exclude the quote sign and replace ¨H¨ by the drive letter of your usb drive and press ¨Enter¨. Be careful at this step not to give a wrong drive letter. Otherwise it will format that drive.
5. Now follow the instructions that the command prompt shows you. It may ask you to provide a name for the drive. In such case just enter any name of your choice and press enter.
6. congrats. Your drive is successfully formated.
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