I'm having trouble with my USB drive, which got corrupted. I wanted to reformat it to NTFS, but when I attempted a quick format, the progress bar didn't move at all, so I canceled it. I then tried formatting it to ExFAT, and that completed successfully. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix the NTFS formatting issue?
2 Answers
Honestly, it sounds like your USB drive is actually damaged. If it's not responding to formatting like it should, it might be time to consider replacing it rather than trying to fix it.
You might want to try using Diskpart to clean and format the drive. It's a command-line tool that could help you out. Just open cmd.exe and run these commands:
diskpart
lis dis
sel dis [your USB disk number]
cle
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
I tried using Diskpart, but it got stuck at 0%.