Windows 10: Unable to format USB Drive

Hello, I've been recently trying to recover some of my old USB Drives for use and when I plugged this old USB drive into my pc it told me i must format the drive to use it. After i press format and go through the default formatting app from File Explorer, it gets stuck on a unresponsive screen and after a few minutes it tells me i need Admin Permission or "You do not have permission to format this Drive". I've looked at other discussions about this and one told me to do it through command prompt so i tried yet after i enter the command "diskpart", the CMD doesn't let me enter any more commands

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USB Flash Drive saying not formatted..?

Hi,

I have a Memorex Poker Chip USB Flash Drive 1GB, and It shows up fine on one PC as "Poker Chip" in explore, and I can transfer files... but on my other PC (the one I'm on now..specs in profile) it's listed only as H: Removable Disk, and when I click on it, it says: "The Device is not formatted, would you like to format it now? (Y/N). Why would it be recognized on one PC, but the not the other? How come the other PC didn't need it formatted? When I click yes to format it, it says: "Windows was unable to complete the format"

I went to the BIOS and USB 2.0 is enabled. And Device Manager does list it as a Memorex Poker Chip..

 

Unable to format USB drive in Windows 10

IF windows are not able to format USB drive then apply these manual steps as follows:
First open run command box > Now, write diskpart and hit enter > Once
Diskpart is open > Now writing the commands, one by one.
Command 1: List disk
[Now, it will list Disk 0 and Disk 1 in your PC. Clearly Disk 0 is your hard disk and Disk 1 is the USB flash drive.]
Now, write the commands given below One by One.
Command 2: Select disk
Command 3: clean
Command 4: create partition primary
Command 5: active
Command 6: select partition 1
Command 7: format fs=fat32
[In the above command fat32 is chosen as a file system, if you want to choose NTFS, you can choose that as well.]
It will take time. Do not close the window before it's completed.
This manual steps may help you to format the drive. Thanks

 

Unable to format USB drive in Windows 10

I am unable to format USB drive in Windows 10.

Even when I tried copy paste few files from local drive, it is asking me admin permission.

I tried same thing in other laptop having windows 7 and it works fine.

In laptop having windows 10, I tried all possible ways which are by default available in windows to format USB drive but none of them working.

Unlike in Windows 7.

Can somebody suggest how to format USB drive in windows 10?