My kingston usb is 8gb when i'm trying to format the drive the computer tells me that's unable to format and the flashdrive was zero capacity

click start control panel user accounts click on the administrators account if you have made one or you will have to create one in windows XP

click start right click on my computer select open
Right click the icon of your Usb Drive (It should be E:/ or something)
Click Properties in the menu that comes up
Click the Sharing tab
Click permissions
And finally, click Allow next to Full Control.


click start click on my computer to open you should see your drive
right click then select format

another way
click start control panel administration tools computer management disk management right

click on your usb drive select format
if you need more help with this post a reply

hope this helps you

Files on a flash drive canbe corrupted if it is not removed from the USB port properly.
Before removing the flash drive click on the Safely Remove Hardware icon andthen click on the flash drive you want to remove and then remove the flashdrive when the computer message says it is Safe to remove.
To restore the flash drive to working order you need to format the flash drive,BUT you will lose the data stored on the flash drive.
If you need the data on the flash drive these WEB sites may help: -
Data and Digital Photo Recovery
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format the flash drive

insert your pen drive
click start click on my computer you should see your pen drive
right click then select format
another way is to control panel administrive tools,computer management disk management right click on your drive select format

hope this helps

hi,
its not a issue , down load HP low device formatting freeware , then format your usb using that software , then reboot you computer inject the usb, again format your usb in windows , use FAT32, not ntfc to format, it will for mat then try to save it it will , its nothin your usb is affected by autoexe virus it will be find if you follow what i said,

thank you,
domnickr...

your usb drive has a virus or file that cannot be read. try format on mac pc. if it still cant read your usb flash is damage.

some cheap flashdrive has no option of format..only delete option..but if you do is format may flashdrive firmware was lost ..thats why read zero value...

but trying it to insert to the other conputer if same problem occuring..
if so...your USB is have lost firmware..

Do you have a write protect switch on the pen? If so switch it to the open position.

have you tried it on a different usb port? if that doesnt work you may also try it on a computer

You can try formatting the drive by using "HP USB drive format utility". Try first with FAT and then FAT32 do not format it in NTFS. It's free. Download it by Googling. You can even try in a different computer, sometimes due to driver problem also it happens. Best of luck.