Go ahead and right-click on each item under Universal Serial Bus controllers and choose Uninstall. If you are not using Windows 7, you can go to Device Manager by going to the Control Panel, then System and clicking on Hardware. You can do this by clicking on the Start button and then typing in devmgmt.msc in the search box and pressing Enter. Method 2 – Reinstall USB ControllerĪnother thing you can try is to reinstall the USB controllers on your Windows machine. If you are still being asked to format it, keep reading. Now go ahead and restart your computer and then try to plug in your USB device and see what happens. Hopefully, you won’t have to do that though. If, for whatever reason, system file checker cannot replace all corrupt files (which it will tell you), then you will have to manually do it.
Get ready to sit back and wait a while because this process usually takes a long time.
