How to format 32GB SanDisk Cruzer

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Hi,

I also have a SanDisk Cruzer 32GB.

I tried all of the suggested topics here and elsewhere and nothing worked!

Finally, I was able to format the disk with a Chromebook which uses a completely different filesystem.

Then, I was able to into disk managment and format it, assign it a drive letter, etc.

Try formatting it on something other than windows!

Hope that helps.

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With EaseUS Partition master, It also fails to format to NTFS, but if you highlight the partition and select “convert to NTFS”, it works.

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NTFS is a lousy format for a USB drive. Use exFAT if large files are necessary.

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Why is it a lousy format???

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It was designed for hard drives and includes journaling which adds extra writes to the drive. On USB drives that makes them slower and wear out faster.