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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tshirtZ" data-source="post: 16061007" data-attributes="member: 371199">Like with any physical hard disk, the file system can become damaged,  such as if you unplug the USB drive while it is being written to. In  your case, it seems the partition table has been damaged. There IS a  partition there, just NOT one recognized, and since it is taking up the  whole disk, that is why the format fails. Since you SEE the drive in the  list of drives and can see the properties, then you need to run the  FDISK program in a DOS command window. Select the drive and examine the  partition information. I'll bet you find a partition and it says  something like "non-dos" and is using 100% of the drive capacity. If so,  go through the menus and find the place to delete partitions and try to  delete the partition so there are NO partitions on the drive.  Hopefully, you CAN delete the partition. Exit and reboot. After you  reboot, you should still see the drive in the drive list. Now, use your  drive utilities to create a new partition and format. Try FAT32 first as  not all machines can handle NTFS, but most current windoze versions  from W98 and up CAN handle FAT32.source - yahoo answers</blockquote>

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