If u try to format a pen drive/flash drive/memory card/portable device or any removable media and you get a message " Can't format this drive " or " drive is in use " , here is the solution for you to format your device.
Firstly you want to know why this is happening. There are mainly three reasons for this.
- Virus or Trojan is infected
- Chip board (flash chip) of your pen drive/flash drive/memory card/portable device is corrupted.
- Fake pen drive/flash drive/memory card/portable device.
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Solution 1: Scan with the antivirus application and remove all Virus or Trojan and restart your computer. Now onwards you can format your pen drive/flash drive/memory card/portable device. If you don't have a Antivirus application right now, do the below thing is a must to avoid spreading the virus on your computer.
Don't double click on pen drive.
Cancel the Autorun operation if it starts automatically.
Solution 2: Chip board corruption is due to some rough use or the device is dropped down from your hands or some thing same like that. If you are lucky, you will get replaced it if the warranty period is not over. Otherwise no solution for it.
Solution 3: Beware! There are lots of fake pen drive/flash drive/memory card/portable device are available in the market with the name of branded devices. So always purchase from a trusted store with the warranty card or bill.
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One of the most common way by which a virus can infect your PC is through USB/Pen drives. Common viruses such as ’Ravmon’ , ‘New Folder.exe’, ‘Orkut is banned’ etc are spreading through portable drives. Most anti virus programs are unable to detect them and even if they do, in most cases they are unable to delete the file, only quarantine it.
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Here are the things which you can do if you want to remove such viruses from your USB drives
Whenever you plug a USB drive in your system, a window will appear similar to the one shown below
Don’t click 'OK' , just choose ‘Cancel’.
Open the Command Prompt by typing ‘cmd‘ in the run box.
In the command prompt type the drive letter: eg:- g:
and press enter . Now type dir /w/a and press enter.
This will display a list of the files in the pen drive. Check whether the following files are there or not
Autorun.inf
Ravmon.exe
New Folder.exe
svchost.exe
Heap41a
or any other exe file which may be suspicious.
If any of the above files are there, then it is sure that the USB drive is infected.
In command prompt type attrib -r -a -s -h *.* and press enter. This will remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from all the files. Now just delete the files using the command del filename. example del Ravmon.exe.
Delete all the files that are suspicious. To be on a safer side, just scan the USB drive with an anti virus program to check whether it is free of virus or not.
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Now remove the drive and plug it again. In most of the cases, the real culprit turns out to be the “Autorun.inf” file which mostly gets executed when someone clicks Ok in the dialog window which appears above. Thus the infections can spread.
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