Kingston Format Utility.exe Download
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Kingston Format Utility is a formatting solution developed by Kingston Technology Corporation that is very useful to ensure your Kingston memory device is usable on different systems with different file systems.
I have a 4GB HP USB flash drive that I had written a Chromium OS image to with Win32DiskImager. Now I am trying to reformat it but I can't. Everything tells me the disk is write protected. Being a USB flash drive, there is no write-protect switch. I have tried the standard windows format thing, disk management, diskpart and HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. I also tried the registry modification. Any ideas? Here is the results of trying to use diskpart:
P.S.If you have trouble finding the right tool, export you device information and send a link so I can check it. It might look impossible to find the right one, but I've fixed almost all types of USBs, expect some chinese copies of Kingston USBs.
I ended up fixing it by re-partitioning it using Disk Utility on my MacBook. This was back before El Capitan, when Disk Utility was redesigned. I made it one partition and formatted it as MS-DOS File System. It's been working fine ever since.
I completely hosed a few SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB 2.0 2 GB Flash Drives at work when I deleted the original contents of the drives, installed the CruzerPro software that had shipped with some older Cruzer Professional drives, and then used the CruzerPro application to password protect the drives. This process rendered the drives completely unusable and unable to be formatted.
I knew of one nifty program that had helped me out a few times before, so I tried running the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool v2.1.8, but attempting to format the drive with this utility returned the following error message:
So, with nothing to lose, I pasted _installer.asp?custom=1.6.1.2&brand=PelicanBFG into Internet Explorer, thinking that it would at least get me some new files that might allow me to reformat the drive. I followed a few prompts and lo, the U3 Launchpad Installer software launched and restored the drive to its factory settings of 2 GB capacity formatted as FAT. It even replaced the original U3 files, making it truly good-as-new.
I had a same problem with kingston 8 GB pen drive. I have tried many softwares to format the 0 byte usb drive. Finally the software which worked was this tiny executable =L6PSHSO4. Hope this will help the drives other than SanDisk
Deepak, thank you very much dude!!!! thanks to you i could fix my Kingston USB 4Gb memory, i tryed a lot of programs and anything works; the .exe you give us, says an error when formating, but the windows says that Disk E: has no format, then i formated it, and Works Again!!! thank you!!! really man, i apreciate it too much man, thanks!!! sorry for my bad english hahaha. thank you Deepak ^^
I have a HP pen drive, my pc is detecting the drive, but size shown is 0B
Also, i am not able to format the drive.
Tried using HP USB DISK STORAGE, but it did not work for me, it cant recognise the the drive.
Any suggestions ??
Your drive should show up here. A format from here fixed my issue, after I deleted a partition that was probably stopping it from working. But many thanks for the user who posted this method and to the original author for beginning this helpful discussion.
I tried in vain entry #28 GreyGrue 23 July 2010 at 2:39 am and I was sure it was what I wanted when I saw I could use the command line to force the USB drive to do what I wanted. After many many attempts, I tried the AUTOMOUNT command and my drive sprang back to life. After that, I did CLEAN and I was able to format it after that. Hope that helps someone. Thanks to GreyGrue for old school commands to force things to work again.
I tried all the solutions provided by all of the worthy contributors, but nothing worked with my kingston dt101 g2 32gb. i have very important data on it, dont care about the device but any way may i get some data back
regards
It doesnt work to me. I downloaded it, I try it as administrator, but says to me that the currently inserted U3 drive is not SanDisk, but in real it is a Sandisk. (I cant format this usb, becouse my system felt while it was formating last time, so it stopped in the middle probably)
I dont know what else to do..??
It is a SanDisk Cruzer Blade 4 GB Pen Drive
Hi there , I have experienced the same problems with my Sandisk Ultra Dual usb drive as you have described. I have tried out all the options possible and finally stumbled upon your page. I could not find the installer file for the usb I have on the sandisk support site and was wondering where can I find the same. Also there are files which I want to recover before I go ahead and try these steps. Is there any way I can change the file system from UNKNOWN to either Fat 32 or NTFS to at least try and recover my data before going in for the format? Thanks.
I had a Transend 64 GB pen drive that was unusable since last 3 years as it got corrupt when a format was interrupted midway. Today, I could finally revive it.
Steps:
1. First, I opened the device manager and uninstalled the usb drive from there, reboot the system. Go to power setting and disbale usb suspending and the drive started showing in file explorer.
If you are unable to format Kingston USB Flash Drive, it might be due to a fault in your USB Drive, or it might be Windows error. Whatever the reason is, it's important to properly format your USB Drive to use it properly in multiple devices and keep your data safe in it. Thus, go through the article to find out various reasons that make you unable to format your Kingston Drive, and also various methods to format it properly.
Formatting your Kingston USB Drive is as easy and straightforward as any other USB Drive. All you need to do is to connect your USB Drive and follow a procedure to successfully format it, and most of the time you can do so with the help of Windows built-in features. Yes, there are multiple integrated tools in Windows that can help you in formatting your Kingston USB Drive.
There are various ways to format your Kingston USB Drive, some are straight forward, and some require a certain level of expertise. However, there are several cases when Windows might fail to format Kingston USB Drive, in such cases, you can try different methods including built-in Windows tools, and third-party tools as well.
Step 1. To format your Kingston USB Drive on Windows, go to the search panel on the task-bar of your Desktop. On the search panel, type "Disk Management" and click Enter to see the search results. You will see the "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions" option in the results, click on it to enter the "Disk Management" window.
Step 3. You'll see a pop-up window with various options to configure the formatting as per your requirements. Select the "File System" based on your requirement and disable the "Quick Format" option. Now, click "OK" to start formatting your Kingston USB Drive.
Once the process is completed, your USB Drive will be formatted. But there can be cases where Disk Management might be unable to format Kingston Flash Drive. It might show you an error while trying to format the Drive or it might format it incorrectly as well. In that case, try another method to format your USB drive.
Step 5. As your Kingston drive is now the selected drive, any command given will now apply to your Kingston Drive only. Now, give the command "list partition" and press Enter to list all the partitions on your Kingston Drive. Once all the partitions are listed, you need to give the command "select partition #" and press Enter. (# = Number or letter of partition, according to Command Prompt window, that you want to format)
Step 6. Once the partition is selected, you need to simply give the command "format fs=fat32" to initiate the formatting of your Kingston USB Drive. Wait for the command to process entirely, and then quit the CMD.
After the successful completion of the process, your Kingston USB Drive will be available to the latest formatted configuration. However, there are several cases in which CMD can not format your Kingston Drive. It will either show you that it's unable to format Kingston USB Flash Drive, or it will fail to process the format command. In any case, you should prefer any other method or a third-party tool to format your Kingston Drive.
If due to several reasons your Windows is unable to format Kingston USB Drive by using its integrated features, then you can try other ways as well. You can use various third-party apps that can help you in formatting your USB Drive.
There are various USB Drive formatting tools available in the market that comes with more features and are more powerful than the integrated tools of Windows. You can use tools like USB Disk Storage Format, HDD Low-Level Format, HP USB Storage Format Tool, etc. All these tools allow you to perform the formatting of your USB Drive in a very easy yet effective manner. These tools also allow you to format kinds of USB Drive in ways that are not supported by Windows through its integrated formatting tools.
In normal cases, Windows is capable enough to format any USB Flash Drive or any Storage Device by using its built-in formatting features. But, if Windows fails to format Kingston USB Drive, it can be due to various reasons. The reasons might include some fault in the USB Drive or failure of the tools.
There can be more reasons due to which Windows is unable to format Kingston USB Drive. But in any case, you will not be able to format your USB Drive until the issues are solved. Thus, it's highly recommended to recover your data from your USB Drive to stay safe from the risk of losing your important data.
When Windows is unable to format Kingston USB Flash Drive, then it's best to try third-party apps. You can choose the third-party app that meets your requirements and format your USB Drive. However, if your Kingston USB Drive is unable to format, then it's highly recommended to recover your important files using the Recoverit tool.
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