I'm currently trying to format a usb drive to be used as a Win10 home boot drive.
It has previously been a Fedora workstation and Fedora Server boot drive.
I used the DISKPART utility in the windows 10 shell to wipe the drive, which had had a efi partition on it.
Now, whenever I try to format it, it fails and says "The volume was created successfully but not formatted" and "The system cannot find the file specified."
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Chris Paris
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Try doing this from an elevated command prompt:
diskpart
list disk
select disk X
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=Fat32 quick
If Windows can't recover the drive then you will need to boot to Linux and format it in a way that is visible from both Linux and Windows. Like FAT32 or exFAT depending on the size of the drive.
HackSlash
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upon selecting the disk and running
clean, I was given the error messageDiskPart has encountered an error: Access is denied
I am running this as an administrator – Chris Paris Mar 22 '21 at 21:10 -
Run Windows update. Check for chipset and usb driver updates. Reboot. Try it again. – HackSlash Mar 22 '21 at 21:10
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also, I am running a Win10 home insider preview version 21337.rs_prerelease.210312-1502 if that makes any significant differences – Chris Paris Mar 22 '21 at 21:11
CLEANcommand? – HackSlash Mar 22 '21 at 20:41CLEANon it @HackSlash – Chris Paris Mar 22 '21 at 20:43Disk Managementto create partitions before formatting? (You can't format a drive with no partitions) – HackSlash Mar 22 '21 at 20:47Create New Simple Volumeand the error messages show up after I run through the wizard – Chris Paris Mar 22 '21 at 20:52