How to format your SSD/HDD when it can't be formatted? [Force Format Command]

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[jasonfricke]

this is exactly what I needed after hours of research! So quick and easy. Thank you!

[lucasseal]

Lil help? "Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume." Would be very much appreciated thanks :)

[debibiner]

Thank you so much! I, like many others, couldn't get my SSD set up properly and you provided a clear, concise answer in a very friendly manner. I can finally use it as it was intended to be used.

[jacobmaczynski]

Holy crap! this video was a god send. used O&O cloning program to make a new hard drive for my son's computer and it messed it up and created these partitions that i couldn't figure out how to delete. Your video really helped me out and thank you for this.

[waatao]

Clean is not allowed on the risk containing the current boot. System page file. Crashdump or hypernation mode

[KJ-bjkk]

Thank you so very much! After reading tons of articles and a lot of videos, I was led to this outstanding and very thorough video. My SSD showed up in disk management but would not allow me to format it so you helped me to wipe it clean and start over. Thanks again! I have spent several days and many hours trying to resolve this issue. Seven minutes with your video and "BAM!" I can sleep now. Lol.

[ThaniesProduction]

You're a life saver! Recently my drive got virus attack and the drive totally corrupted. Then i use Disk Drill software to recover what i can. Few files were corrupted but majority were okay. Then when i want to format the disk, it was unable to complete the format. Finally i jumped to this video and i can use my drive back! Thankyou sir!

[CrowdControlGuy]

When I asked the "Universe" (Internet) how to initialise an SSD stick up popped this video. The beginning steps using Disk Part and Clean was my saviour. You saved me yet-another-trip to the computer store because the SSD stick was not appearing. Thanks mate.

[FriskiesonGfuel]

4 years in the making ssd has been sitting in my computer unknownst to me with my harddrive booting up every game slowly day by day for 4 years straight thanks to you i have found freedom props go to you man

[whyjordie]

Whenever I hit Clean it says it’s not a valid command 😭😭

[bcwarlock]

I was hoping this video would help me but alas. I took an old ssd out of a machine and I cannot clean it. I have gone through this process a few times. I initialise the disk, assign a drive letter, and it still has all the old file system folders in tact. Cannot format it at all. Any advice?

[matthewshillaker]

Just formatted a previously used HDD from my tv to use on my computer, Without this video I would never have achieved it....Superb !!

[kryptorick]

I see a few comments saying it doesn't work. That's usually because diskpart detects what it thinks are files from an OS. You won't be able to clean from within windows with diskpart. If you have this error instead create a bootable USB windows installer. Boot from this USB stick and instead of starting a windows install go into repair my computer and then command prompt and perform the operations there (diskpart > select the right disk > clean > create partition primary > format > assign).

[tonytools]

Life Saver! I found an old laptop rocking WindowsXP, and these steps STILL worked! Huge thanks.

[kaizer]

I need help, even this doesn’t work and it says error

[reesedwards]

After countless hours trying to sort mt drive out, this took a couple of minutes. thank you for the content. worked like a charm.

[PalliumImmortalis]

After searching hours on the internet your video made it so simple and fast to fix my issue. Thanks a lot!!

[Chnguaur]

hi, i find your video to be very informative. And recently my SSD got corrupted and following the steps shown in the video towards the point of "clean" command i got an incorrect function error on disk part both volumes and disk cant be cleaned with CMD usage are there alternative step to take upon this?

[EndyDan]

For those are using Windows 11, it's the same steps. I can confirm it because I've been trying to format my damn hard disk for months and this guy helped me

[connorslaughter]

This helped so much, I was searching for so long. This was the only actual tutorial that worked. You are an incredible human being, thank you for all that you do.