As a necessity in work and study, one of the most common problems in the use of USB flash drive is to pop up"The USB flash drive needs to be formatted"。If there is more important information in the USB flash drive, we can't easily click to format the disk, because formatting will lead to the loss of our data.
USB flash drive prompt format reason:
There are many reasons why the USB flash drive needs to be formatted, such as we accidentally dropped the USB flash drive and caused a physical failure, or the USB flash drive you bought itself is a copycat disk, the chip quality is not up to par (must be purchased in the official store), and the computer USB power supply is insufficient, the USB disk partition is damaged, etc.
U disk prompt formatting solution:
How can I save the USB flash drive without damaging the data in the USB flash drive? Here are 4 ways to share with you to solve the problem that the USB flash drive cannot be opened and needs to be formatted. Each method has the risk of losing your data or even damaging the disk, so it is recommended that you make sure to back up your important data.
1. cmd command repair method.
Enter the command prompt interface as an administrator and enter the command" chkdsk j:/f "(where j needs to be replaced with your own USB drive letter), and then press enter. Wait patiently for the detection repair to complete.
This command is a dos command for disk check and fix errors on disk.
2. Make use of DiskGenius to search for lost partitions.
* Install the DiskGenius tool, open it and select your USB flash drive, right-click"Search for partitions that have been lost"。
Select the entire hard disk and save all the searched partitions. Then open the USB flash drive and try it.
If searching for the missing partition doesn't solve the above problem, I can also use the DiskGenius tool to recover the important files in the USB flash drive.
3. Make use of usboot for repair.
Open usboot, select your USB flash drive, and select the working mode"Bootstrap processing", and then tap the Start button.
4. Force Formatting - USB flash drive formatting tool.
The first three methods are repaired without damaging the data of the USB flash drive itself, if your USB flash drive does not have important data, it cannot be completed by formatting it directly. At this point, we can try to use this tool to force formatting.
Original Source: Select your USB drive letter and check Force Formatting.
In addition to the above methods, we can also use the method of mass production for various problems of U disk, mass production of U disk is more troublesome, sometimes it is not worth doing that, here it is recommended that you buy U disk must go to the official store to buy**U disk, generally there is a 1-year warranty, you can directly replace it.