I have tried to format my flash Drive usb

Hi Good People
I have tried to format my flash Drive USB. and i keep getting a windows message
I have also tried formatting my flash Drive USB through windows explorer to no avail.
but when I populate the volume on the E:\ the drive registers after about 3 mins
I must do doing something wrong I have never had this trouble before 
Can anybody help me please
Kind reards
Gary
Gary Simpson

Hi Again Fangzhou Chen
Thanks again for suggesting the above. Here is a picture of what i have done in the command prompt:....
I put the flash drive in the USB port. and a message shows you need to format E:\ so I click format after about 4 minuets I get another Message saying:.....
Windows Cannot format drive E:\
I then Started the Command Prompt 
I typed List Volume ......... the top part of my picture showed                                volume 3     letter E     no label   no FS  type
it was removable   size 0 ..  No Media  Blank info
I removed the flash drive then re-inserted the flash drive... The first message came up again you need to format E:\ This time I pressed the cancel Button and went to the Command Prompt I typed In the Command Prompt again List Volume this time the CMD
said Volume 3 .. Letter E .. No Label .. No FS ..Type was Removable .. Size 14 GB Unusable  
Then In DiskPart I selected Volume 3 then type List Partition ....                                     ...It then said There are no Partitions on this disk to show...
                                             I then typed Create Partition Primary........                
                                                     It then said...Diskpart has encountered an Error: The System cannot
find the file specified  see the system event log for more information ......                                          I look In the system event
log It say's nothing.
So As I said previously "The Flash drive is destined for the bin 
Best Regards
Gary
Gary Simpson

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