Windows 10: Unformatted disks not accessible for formatting in optical drive

Unformatted CD's or DVD's are not recognized and there is no format command option when I right-click on the drive in Explorer. I can burn videos and photos to an unformatted disk using a burn program but I cannot write files or format an unformatted disk when attempting to use the drive like a flash drive. The drive operates as expected when reading written disks and is accessible via burn programs with video and photo editing software. Why is there no format option when I right-click the recognized drive in Explorer?

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Unformat a hard drive?

unformat? hm.

theres no way to completely "unformat" a drive. there are, however, ways to recover lost data.

Firstly, make sure you don't access the drive you formatted. don't put any data on it or anything. Then, try using a freeware data recovery program on it. that may help.

if it doesn't, then you're most likely screwed...sorry......

 

Optical drive letters keep swapping

Open Disk Management (click Start, type diskmgmt.msc in the Search box, and press Enter).

1. In the lower pane, right-click on your optical drive and select "Change drive letter and paths"
2. Assign Y: to the first optical drive
3. Repeat step 1 for the second optical drive and assign Z:

 

How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

¿You already tried this one?...

Run CMD


1. diskpart
2. list disk

Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

2. select disk #
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

good luck!