Windows 10: Formatting the usb used for creation media

So i recently used my 32gb usb stick to install windows on my dell XPS. i was previously using linux but i had to shift back to windows again. i was wondering how can i reformat the usb. whenever i try to format it, it says it is write protected. I tried almost everything but i cannot format it. I was wondering if i could get a little help

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Media Creation Tool


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Failed Media Creation Tool attempt at bootable USB flash drive

Shawn, these are the steps being referred to that NavyLCDR posted. They work for both UEFI and MBR.

Here are the steps to create a standard Windows 10 USB flash drive:

1. Use the Media Creation Tool to download and save the ISO file to your hard drive.
2. Insert the USB flash drive.
3. Open a Administrator Command Prompt and enter: diskpart (if it isn't an administrator command prompt, it will ask for administrator permission).
4. list disk
5. select disk # <- replace # with the actual disk number of the USB flash drive
6. clean <- this will erase the disk selected above, make sure you selected the USB flash drive!
7. create part pri
8. format fs=fat32 quick
9. active
10. exit
11. exit - and if the first Command Prompt was not an Administrator Command Prompt, exit that one too.
11. Mount the ISO file saved by the Media Creation Tool. If you are using Windows 8 or 10, you only have to right click on it and click on mount. If you are using Windows 7, then you must use a program like WinCDEmu to mount the ISO file:
WinCDEmu - the easiest way to mount an ISO. And more...
12. Copy all the files and folders from the mounted ISO file to the USB flash drive.

That's as simple as it gets. Between steps 7 and 8 you can enter: "select part 1" without quotes - but it should not be necessary.
Between steps 8 and 9 you can enter: "assign" without quotes - but it should not be necessary.

 

Headache with Windows 10 Media Creation Tool and 0x80042405 - 0xA001A related error.

Greetings,

recently, I have searched about this error regarding the Media Creation Tool and USB pen drive creation but none of the
solutions found were good for me: reformatting USB drive to FAT32, start the media tool from the USB drive itself, disable USB Selective Suspend via Power Options, create am ISO image and use Rufus, and so on. My Microsoft Surface
didn't want to create a bootable USB: I've spend a week and will have tried 20 times at least. To my surprise, my old HP laptop did it at first time instead. Why ????? (At now I don't know).

My first step was to examine the setupact.log file that the Media Creation Tool has created: the error was from the CDIpActionLayoutUsb:repareUsbMedia which by the way did not appear in the other file (???). The
logic told me that the problem was in the pen drive format: partition, disk, volume ? In short, the Format command and the Disk Management tool didn't seem to work and after much test the solution was the DiskPart Windows tool. Here is how to insert it into
the procedure:

• Attach a formatted USB pen to the PC;
• Start the Media Creation Tool, do the all steps until the download of the files starts (You must select first the USB pen disk);
• And now the magic DiskPart tool:
  • start it;
  • By the LIST VOLUME command identifies the volume of the USB pen and remember the attached number;
  • Select it by the SELECT VOLUME <number>
    ;
  • Now use the command CLEAN
  • Enjoy the end;

I don't know why, by this last command permits the Media Creation Tool to complete and create the bootable USB pen correctly. I've tried the procedure 3 times and all works well.

I hope this helps all users that has an headache with the Media Creation Tool.

Simone