{"id":12181,"date":"2021-12-09T00:27:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=12181"},"modified":"2021-12-09T00:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:27:46","slug":"unable-to-format-usb-flash-drive","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/mac\/unable-to-format-usb-flash-drive\/14758.html","title":{"rendered":"Unable to Format USB Flash Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I compressed my Photo Library on my MacBook Pro (with Mojave) and was copying Photo Library.zip file onto SanDisk Ultra 128GB Dual Drive USB Type-C flash drive. Disk has exFAT format. While copying something happened and now my drive is readonly. I cannot copy anything to it or delete any files from this flash drive.<br \/>\nI tried Mac Disk Utility to format using Erase option but it said Operation Failed.<br \/>\nThen I tried NTFS for Mac. I used verify command in it which said cluster chain of Photo Library.zip has too many clusters for its size. The volume couldn\u2019t be verified completely.<br \/>\nI tried Windows 10 to format still it threw error saying disk is read only.<br \/>\nI tried diskpart command however clean command fails for this disk. I tried tools like EaseUS, IOMEI Partition Manager however both apps said it is readonly volume. I am not been able to use this USB flash drive. Please help me I need flash drive to be formatted to MSDOS 32 format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":21},"question-category":[59],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-12181","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-mac"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/12181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=12181"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=12181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}