One of my favorite USB Flash Drive formatting utilities is the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. It is also bundled as part of the firmware download for HP computers, located in a folder named ROMpaq USB Key. The executable file is HPQUSB.EXE. Although rare, there have been a few occasions when this utility was unable to format my USB Flash Drive. I recently had a SanDisk Cruzer 8GB USB Flash Drive that reported the error “device media write protected” when I attempted to use the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. I attempted to use Diskpart to delete the existing partitions from the Sandisk USB Flash Drive but was also unsuccessful. Here is the fix that ended up working for me.

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Macbook Pro Disk Utility to the rescue! I used my Macbook Pro Disk Utility to erase the media. After successfully deleting the partition I noticed that the format was FAT. I plugged the USB Flash Drive into my Windows 7 computer and then opened Disk Manager. Next I assigned a drive letter to the partition, and then I was able to successfully format it with FAT32.

Hp Usb Disk Format Tool Device Media Is Write Protected Usb Format

Now that is settled to install the latest to your computer is to download the Media Creation Tool an save as a USB. Then moun that USB in File Explorer and open id and double click on Setup. This gets you updated. After all that is done go out and get a blank USB stick or two of 16GB and download the Media Creation Tool on to them. HP usb disk storage format utility has been designed to format any HP Drive Key or Disk on key USB devices and support both low level and high level format so you can format your disk by FAT,FAT32 and NTFS file system.HP disk format tool also support create bootable USB drives.