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The most problems with USB drives can be fixed by "formatting the drive", but when you try to fix it by formatting the drive, you are prompted with "Windows could not finish formatting". In this occasion, you can try these 3 ways to format encrypted usb drive .
1. The data on the USB flash drive is corrupted, so it cannot be formatted.
2. Operating system or unconventional operations (such as incompatible reading and writing devices) lead to the inability to format.
3. The flash drive is write-protected and in read-only mode, so it cannot be written and formatted.
4. Encrypt the usb drive to protect the data on the usb drive by bitlocker, but you forget the access password, and this article is main guide on how to format encrypted usb drive.
Step 1: Press "Windows+R" to open the Run box, type "regedit" command in it, click "OK" and enter the Registry Editor.
Step 2: Click under the "Registry Editor" to expand the "Control" folder and see if there is an option for "StorageDevicePolicies", if not, then you need to create it.
Step 3: Right click in the "Control" folder, create a new "Key" and rename it "StorageDevicePolicies", then right click and select a new "Value" in the window named "WriteProtect".
Step 4: Double click "WriteProtect", enter "0" in the box of numeric data, select "Hexadecimal" and click "OK", the setting is finished. Unplug the USB drive and insert it again, then you can format the USB drive.
Step 1: Press "Windows+R" to open the run box and type "CMD" in it, click "OK" and enter the Command Prompt window.
Step 2: Enter the code of diskpart and press "enter" to open the program window of "diskpart.exe".
Step 3: As shown in the figure, enter the appropriate command codes in the window in order to clean disk (Note: Press "enter" to confirm each command you enter).
diskpart
list disk
select disk x
clean
Step 4: Create a new volume for the formatted USB flash drive. Open the "Disk Management" system window, choose the USB flash drive, right click and select "New simple volume", and follow the system wizard to complete the operation.
Step 1: Press the "Windows+X" key to open the "Disk Management" window.
Step 2: Find the encrypted USB drive, right-click on it and select the "Format" option. In the pop-up window, check "Perform a quick format" and click "OK" to quickly format your USB drive.
Conclusion:
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