Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Still Need Help? Have your problem been solved? Connect your problematic SanDisk drive or removable device to your PC and follow next steps to format it with ease. Step 1. Step 2. Step 4. As Windows File Explorer is a Windows built-in tool, you don't need to download it at all. As long as the File Explorer is working properly, you can format your SanDisk or other brands of devices with ease.
Connect SanDisk device to your PC. You can easily apply it to format or change a device file system. As a result, no download and installation are required. Set the volume label, file system, and click "OK" to start formatting the drive.
Windows DiskPart command prompt is more like a disk management tool that cannot only format your SanDisk device but also work to resolve other issues on your devices. You can easily bring it up without downloading or installing it.
Keep your SanDisk device connected to PC. Step 3. Type exit and hit Enter to close the command window when DiskPart reports it has successfully formatted the volume. For the situations in the second category, simply formatting the disk will likely not be sufficient. Instead, it will require some advanced operations, such as applying SanDisk repair tools to fix these issues on your device.
Here, we also collected several SanDisk repair tools for you to pick up and apply to repair corrupted, unreadable and even write-protected SanDisk devices:. As the solutions toward different cases are different even using the same SanDisk repair tool.
In the following, we'll guide you through the process to repair different SanDisk device errors with respective SanDisk repair tools. When a SanDisk card, USB, or other brands of storage devices become write-protected, you cannot direct format to remove the write protection. For example, when an SD card or USB becomes write-protected, you can try to unlock the device by toggling its switch. However, if this doesn't work, you'll need to fix a write-protected SanDisk drive with the following methods:.
Method 1. Connect SanDisk device which is write-protected to your computer. And then continue to remove write protection with the following steps.
It's free. If you don't consider yourself a pro-computer user and you're not familiar with command-lines, don't worry. There are graphical-based solutions to help you remove write-protection from your hard drives, USB drives, and even SD cards. EaseUS CleanGenius is one of these tools that helps you fix aforementioned issues on your drives without knowing a thing about command-line.
When you have removed write protection from the device, you can then apply EaseUS Partition Master with its Format feature to format the device usable again. You can revert to the formatting tutorial in Part 1 as a guide. Please make your own choice according to your own needs. Step 3. Now you can observe the disk map. The SanDisk Partition will have the file system you appointed. To put this change into effect, just click Apply button from the menu bar and wait for the success.
Click to tweet. You see! But if you don't want any third-party software, you can also move on to find another 3 SanDisk format tools included in Windows. Windows is very smart, and can fulfill most of user demands. EXE Command Prompt , the command-line interpreter on Windows, which can be found at the Start menu on each operating system. Type diskpart and you get a new diskpart.
In the new window, type the following commands in order:. The second tool you can find in Windows is the Disk Management utility. Disk Management is also very easy to use because of its concise Graphical User Interface. Please follow the guidance below:. Run diskmgmt. At the disk map area, right-click the SanDisk partition and choose Format from the context menu.
In the pop-up window, customize the Volume label, File system and Allocation unit size before you click OK. Windows tells you formatting will lead to data loss on this drive. To continue, click OK.
Then SanDisk formatting will be finished quickly. Windows Explorer is the place where we can observe hard drive partitions and access files. To format SanDisk drive, you need to do the followings:.
Right-click the partition and choose Format from the context menu. In the format window, choose the desired File system, Allocation unit size, and Volume label.
Then click Start. You will see a data losing warning message. To confirm the format, click OK. To quit, click Cancel.
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