SanDisk Cruzer 16GB flash drive not formatting, why?

Akhil10

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Hi,

Using Win32DiskImager, I wrote a chromium AMDx64 ISO image to a SanDisk Cruzer 16GB pen drive, which successfully worked to install the Chromium on the computer. When I plugged it back into another computer running windows 10, I formatted it. In a hurry, not paying too much attention, I formatted it to 1.18GB. Then I went to diskpart, List Disk, Select Disk 1, Clean and it gave me the error: "Diskpart has encountered an error: Incorrect function. See the system event log for more information" Click here to see the image. And as soon as I did that, a pop up showed asking me to format. See here!

So I went to the disk management section in control panel and I saw this. And if I go on My PC and see that the pen drive is being detected but has 0 bytes space free and 0 bytes space used. See HERE!

PLEASE, help me! I have spent my whole day trying to figure this out, but nothing seems to work. I will happily provide any additional information regarding this problem, just ask.

I have gotten errors like "the file specified could not be found" or "windows was unable to format the disk". ANOTHER thing I noticed is that, through disk manager, I can create a new simple volume, but the max allocated space for the partition is 14.9 where as when I bought the pen drive about 2-4 months ago, it was 15.7-15.9. So it is possible that there is space that I am not being able to access or wipe. That I probably lost during my format after installing chromium on another computer.

Kind Regards,
Akhil10
 

Akhil10

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I created a partition using diskpart successfully using "create partition primary" command as shown in this picture. Then, the usb didn't display at all on "My PC". So I went to disk manager in control panel and it was detected there. So I started to format. It showed me a warning to backup all data as format will delete, so I just checked yes and then this error popped up. CLICK here to see!