Fix Windows Can’t Format USB Drive - How To Solve Unable to Complete the Format SD Card / USB ✅

Name: Fix Windows Can’t Format USB Drive - How To Solve Unable to Complete the Format SD Card / USB ✅
Uploaded: 2026-10-31T11:51:59.635Z
Duration: 2 min 57 s
Channel: Victor Explains - 維克多解釋

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1 Video View·Oct 31, 2026 #WindowsFormatError #USBDriveFix #UnableToCompleteFormat

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👉“Windows Can’t Format USB Drive” or “Windows Was Unable to Complete the Format” — if you’re facing these errors on Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7, this video will help you Fix, Solve, and Repair the problem on any laptop, PC, or computer.

Whether you’re trying to format a USB flash drive, pen drive, SD card, microSD card, external hard drive, SSD, or portable HDD, Windows may show errors like:
• Windows was unable to complete the format
• formatting did not complete successfully
• USB shows 0 capacity or unknown capacity
• Windows can’t format the drive
• Unable to format SD card Windows 10/11

Even using Disk Management, File Explorer, or DiskPart doesn’t fix it — but in this guide, you will learn methods that WORK on all editions of Windows.

This issue happens across many USB, SD, and portable drive brands, including:
SanDisk, Kingston, Samsung, Toshiba, HP, WD My Passport, Seagate, Transcend, Lexar, PNY, ADATA, Crucial, Verbatim, TeamGroup, Patriot, Gigastone, Sony, and more.

It also affects all major laptop and PC brands, such as:
Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Acer, MSI, Samsung, Microsoft Surface, LG, Razer, Huawei, Sony VAIO, Fujitsu, Gateway, Toshiba, etc.

🔧 In this video, you’ll learn how to:

✔ Fix USB drives that won’t format in NTFS / FAT / exFAT
✔ Repair SD cards or microSD cards that show errors
✔ Use Disk Management, DiskPart, CMD, CHKDSK, and formatting tools
✔ Restore full capacity to corrupted USB flash drives
✔ Solve “formatting did not complete successfully”
✔ Repair drives stuck at 0 bytes or “unknown capacity”
✔ Fix formatting errors on any Windows 11/10/8/7 edition

No matter which device you're using — USB pendrive, flash drive, memory card, SD/microSD, SSD, external HDD, My Passport — this tutorial will help you repair, fix, and format your drive successfully.

🗎 Command Text :

diskpart
list disk
select disk (your-number)
attributes disk clear readonly
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick

⏱ Timestamps / Chapters
0:00 – Intro
0:10 - how to fix “Can’t Format USB Drive” error, or “Windows Was Unable to Complete the Formatting” message on Windows 11/10/8/7.
2:49 - More Suggested Videos

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Hey everyone, welcome back to Victor Explains. In today's video, I'm going to show you how to fix the can't format USB drive or Windows was unable to complete the format error on Windows 11, 10, 8, or even Windows 7. So here's what we're going to do. First, open command prompt by typing cmd into the search box, then right click it and choose run as administrator. Once command prompt is open, type diskpart and hit enter. Then type list disk and press enter again. And also type select disk and now you must know your USB number that why this part is really important. You must know exactly which one is your USB drive. To double check, just right click the start button, open computer management, and then go into disk management. And here we go, my USB shows up as disk 1. Yours might be different, so just match it based on the size. It might also show as raw, unallocated, or even completely blank, and that's fine. That simply means the drive is corrupted. Now, head back to command prompt and type. Your USB number in my case is I will type 1 and press enter after that. Type attributes disk clear read only and press enter. Then type clean and hit enter again. Cleaning removes all corrupted partition information that's stopping Windows from formatting the drive. Next, we create a brand new partition by typing create partition primary and press enter. And finally, we format it by typing format fs equals ntfs quick and press enter you can replace ntfs with fat32 if you prefer that. I'm using ntfs with a quick format, which only takes a few seconds. And that's it, as soon as the format completes, the USB drive comes back to life and starts working normally again. When we open File Explorer, perfect. The drive is recognized, accessible, and formatting works just the way it should. And that's how you fix a USB drive that refuses to format or keeps showing the Windows was unable to complete the format error. If you found this video helpful, please like and subscribe to our channel, leave comment and share it with others so they can benefit too.