I thought my computer was attacked by a certain virus since I can't process the formatting my pen drive. As trying to format it, an error appear stating; ''cannot format the pen drive''. Thinking it was a cause of a virus, I scan my computer already and reformat it again, but still the same error shows. Please help me.
Dear June,
There are many causes for this error:
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Take care.
Stephy
Hi,
Please try to confirm first if really it's an virus attacked. You must know that not all anti-virus works the ways it is, sometimes some of those kinds cannot detect something wrong. To help you to know how it is, here are methods you must follow before proceeding. Try to disable all the running process even the virus process; to do this Click start button and then type cmd to open the command prompt. After opening type this one; taskkill/f/fi ''username ne dummyx''.
Result to that all the Windows and taskbar will disappear. Just press CTRL+ALT+DEL then click task manager if you wish to open it again. Next, hit the new task menu and type ''Explorer''. You will now then go back to the explorer and format your pen drive. If luckily working It must be a virus that cause the problem.
Another reason for the issue is that flash chips might be a corrupted one. It shows a less capacity and faulty one. Damages of the chips is cause by electromagnetic or electrical reason that happens because of voltage fluctuations and faulty ports of USB's. Much possible check your flash drives. I hope I have helped you.
