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Konstantinos Tsoukalas

Konstantinos is the founder and administrator of Wintips.org. Since 1995 he works and provides IT support as a computer and network expert to individuals and large companies. He is specialized in solving problems related to Windows or other Microsoft products (Windows Server, Office, Microsoft 365, etc.).

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  1. Muhammad Arsalan
    October 12, 2020 @ 7:12 am

    Nice, I found many solutions on the internet but not work, you have solved my problem. Thank you so much!

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  2. Rahul
    February 23, 2019 @ 10:21 pm

    No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created)". Same bar bar a raha hai format karne ka koi or tarika bata do plzz

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    • lakonst
      February 25, 2019 @ 10:36 am

      @Rahul: Are you performing a fresh installation of Windows? At this case you have to delete all partitions before installing Windows (See Step-3 (8a) from this article)
      If you facing the problem in any other case, please give me the details of the procedure you follow.

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  3. Mark
    August 3, 2018 @ 5:52 am

    Thank you so much for this website :)
    Seems like all possible procedures have been explained clearly here step by step. You have saved me from further frustration. In my case previous procedures didn't work till I get to the method switching my computer to safe mode. Once I got there then my flash drive was visible with its full capacity. Great!
    I have to say that you do the good job running this website :)
    BTW: I'll make a donation:)

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  4. Amir Ali
    February 28, 2018 @ 4:22 pm

    hello i do the same as you said, i could see my sd drive, sd card is 8 GB, but now i can see on the format panel just 30.6 MB, i follow your way until here : create partition primary
    then i get a message:
    " No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition, (only logical drives may be created)".

    all this 3 Method you said, i do, but unfortunatly i could fix it.
    please say me how i can format and use again my sd card ?

    thanks

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    • lakonst
      March 1, 2018 @ 10:02 am

      @Amir Ali: Boot in Safe Mode and try method 2 or try to delete and recreate partitions by using Easeus Partition Master Free.

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  5. G.O.D.
    January 9, 2018 @ 8:17 am

    2. If you receive the following error after executing the format command: "DiskPart has encountered an error: Access is denied. See the System Event Log for more information.", then:

    a. Close command prompt.
    b. Restart your computer.
    c. Log in on your computer as Administrator.
    d. Open Computer Management > Disk Management.
    e. At the right pane: Right click on the disk and select Format.
    f. When the format is completed you can use the disk normally. (Ignore all other steps listed here).

    not working help plz there is no damage to my sd card

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  6. Athul
    December 7, 2017 @ 3:04 pm

    How much time will it take in clear all command??

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  7. nitin george
    November 9, 2017 @ 7:58 pm

    my disk size shows 64mb whereas it is actually a 16gb pendrive. Also it shows the "no usable free extent could be found" error, and when i give the "select partition 1" command it says no partition selected and the "clean all" command works within seconds. What to do?

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  8. kassim
    September 20, 2017 @ 1:59 pm

    This is error that i receive when i run create partition primary command
    " No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the speciffied size and offset. Specify different size or value or don.t specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using MBR disk partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition " please can you help me to solve this issue

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    • lakonst
      September 20, 2017 @ 4:06 pm

      @kassim: Have you followed the instructions mentioned under the "Note" about this problem? If yes, then download and then burn to a CD the GParted LiveCD. Boot your system with Gpated LiveCD and carefully select from the top right list box the SD card. Then Right click on each partition and delete all partitions. When done, Right click on the unallocated space and select NEW to create a new partition in NTFS file system.

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  9. dan
    September 16, 2017 @ 9:27 am

    if my sd card is damaged is there any way that i can reformat and use my sd card sandisk 32 gb?

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    • lakonst
      September 16, 2017 @ 1:59 pm

      @dan: If your card is damaged, then it is not reliable to use it.

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  10. rahul
    August 27, 2017 @ 8:40 am

    Hello sir ,

    I am unable to format my memory card …i started with cmd command , everything was going good till CLEAN command but then after using create partition primary i got error that " no usable free extent could be found "

    Plz suggest

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    • lakonst
      August 31, 2017 @ 9:56 am

      @rahul: Try to format the memory card in Safe Mode.

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  11. Harish Kumar
    June 28, 2017 @ 4:37 am

    DiskPart has encountered an error: the parameter is incorrect. See the System Event Log for more information… what to do with this problem sir!!!

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    • lakonst
      June 28, 2017 @ 9:47 am

      @Harish Kumar: insted of "format fs=fat32" type "format fs=fate32 quick" or "format fs=NTFS quick"

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      • MJ
        April 18, 2018 @ 11:46 am

        How can they do this to me. They didn't put 'quick' on the format command above and now my sd card formats slowly! But it works so thanks anyway lol.

        this page is amazing.

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  12. Sanket
    April 4, 2017 @ 1:21 pm

    I went through all your given steps but still after step 9 the same message is displayed(the one you mentioned in the *note). What should I do?

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    • lakonst
      April 4, 2017 @ 3:06 pm

      @Sanket: Have you followed the instructions (methods) below my note?

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      • Sanket
        April 12, 2017 @ 11:17 am

        Yes I did.

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        • lakonst
          April 12, 2017 @ 2:41 pm

          @Sanked. If you still cannot format your disk then probably the disk is damaged and you must replace it.

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  13. Joshua Dela Cruz
    March 16, 2017 @ 5:29 am

    I think that all of the steps of your tutorial done correctly and I followed every details of it correctly too, but when I am in the state of formatting it like this "format fs=ntfs quick label=NewDisk" right now I spent almost an hour for the formatting to be done but it still stuck on 0%. Why is it like that? My flash drive is only 16GB. Thanks for the help man!

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    • lakonst
      March 16, 2017 @ 1:21 pm

      @Joshua Dela Cruz: Maybe your flash drive is damaged.

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  14. goody
    January 6, 2017 @ 4:17 pm

    please can
    this work on my damaged sd card….if i delete a fule and restart the phone rhe files appears back…can this fix it pls

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    • lakonst
      January 7, 2017 @ 10:04 am

      @goody: I'm sorry, but I don't understand your question.

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  15. John Denver
    December 3, 2016 @ 6:38 pm

    Hello, thanks a lot for this page. I've been pulling my hair out for an hour trying to resolve a permission issue to delete an iso from a USB stick. The 'attributes disk clear readonly' command was the missing piece of the puzzle and now it all works like a charm.

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  16. Amanda
    November 16, 2016 @ 6:15 pm

    I am using windows XP. It only shows one disk in the "list disk". The one I'm looking to fix is not listed. Any fixes?

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    • lakonst
      November 17, 2016 @ 9:46 am

      @Amanda: I suppose that the disk is damaged.

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  17. sam
    September 18, 2016 @ 10:53 pm

    u mentioned that formatting is gonna take long time . well i have done every step u mentioned and everything went as it should i only wanna know how much time does it actually take to format because it has been over 15 mins since i started formatting it

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    • lakonst
      September 19, 2016 @ 10:06 am

      @sam: The time is depended from your disk's size.

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      • Marquis
        September 26, 2016 @ 10:53 pm

        kinda the same problem here ive been waiting and when i typed "clean all" and hit enter it stays there idk if its gonna just pop up or if it just stopped working so i figure id ask if its working because ive followed all the instructions

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        • lakonst
          September 27, 2016 @ 8:57 am

          @Marquis: It is working (but it takes much time) unless your disk is damaged.

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