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How To Fix A Corrupted Pen Drive or SD Card Using Command Prompt?

The document provides steps to use the Command Prompt to fix a corrupted USB drive or SD card. It explains that inserting some commands into the Command Prompt window will forcefully reformat the storage device. The steps include opening Command Prompt, using Diskpart commands to select the corrupted storage device, then using the "clean", "create partition", "active", and "format" commands to reformat it. Once reformatted, the storage device should be repaired and working normally again.

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How To Fix A Corrupted Pen Drive or SD Card Using Command Prompt?

The document provides steps to use the Command Prompt to fix a corrupted USB drive or SD card. It explains that inserting some commands into the Command Prompt window will forcefully reformat the storage device. The steps include opening Command Prompt, using Diskpart commands to select the corrupted storage device, then using the "clean", "create partition", "active", and "format" commands to reformat it. Once reformatted, the storage device should be repaired and working normally again.

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How to Fix a Corrupted Pen Drive or SD card using Command

Prompt?
BY CURIOUSPOST · PUBLISHED MAY 8, 2016 · UPDATED OCTOBER 22, 2017
Has your Pen Drive or SD card stopped working suddenly? Are you tired of formatting it
again and again? And still your storage devices continue to malfunction.

Most of you might have faced this problem with your Pen Drives and SD cards. If yes,
then we are here to help you solve this problem and fix your corrupted USB drive.

We can repair a corrupted pendrive or SD card using Command Prompt in windows.


This How to guide will help you do that in a simpler way. In this technique all you need
is to enter some commands in command prompt and windows will forcefully format your
corrupted pen drive or SD card.
Follow this simple steps and you can do that in just a few minutes.

Step-1:
Connect the corrupted pen drive or SD card to your computer.

Step-2:
Now open Command window. You can actually do this in several ways. Press Windows
Key+R and type cmd in the dialog box and click on OK. This will let you open command
window. Also you can click on start button and type cmd in search box and select the
command prompt program.
Step-3:
Once done with opening the command prompt window, its time to enter some
commands into it.

Type diskpart and press Enter.


Diskpart command window

Next type list disk and press Enter. This will display a list of all the storage devices
connected to your computer.
Step-4:
Now type select disk <the number of your disk> and press Enter. Here the number of
your disk is the number assigned to your removable storage.

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Note: Make sure you enter the number correctly. Otherwise, you may format your internal
hard drive.
Step-5:
After selecting the disk accurately, type clean and press Enter. Next type create
partition primary and hit Enter.
Step-6:
Now type active, and press Enter.
Type select partition 1, and hit Enter.
Step-7:
Finally, type format fs=fat32 and hit Enter. You can write ntfs instead of fat32 to format
drives larger than 4 GB.The format process will complete in a few minutes. Do not close
the window untill the process is done.
Here is the entire process.
Diskpart final list of commands

Once done your USB drive is back to normal again.

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