The format operation on pen drive removes all dangerous viruses, making it virus free and usable.
Right click on your removable pen drive device and select “Format”. “Disk Management” shows all the logical and external storage drives. A windows appears, select computer management from the left panel and then click on “Disk Management”. Right click on “My Computer” and select “Manage”. This is due to dangerous viruses’ infection, in such cases you need to use the following method: Sometimes, even after following the above techniques you won’t be able to format your pen drives. Go to Run -> Regedit -> My Computer -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> StorageDevicePolicies -> Delete the StorageDevicePolicies in Your Registry and then perform format operation. Procedure to clear registry is given below. It indicates that the pen drive is write protected, in order to format these drive. In case if you are not able to format thumb drive, even after following the given procedure. This operation will remove all viruses and other contents of your pen drive. 
Tick “Quick Format” check-box and click on “Start” button. Open “My Computer”->Right click on your pen drive device->then choose “Format” option->After selection a windows pops up, displaying a lot of other options. After which you can format the device, to make it usable Don’t copy the whole directory! Because there are a lot of hidden files, the virus could potentially be one of those hidden files, so it is advice to copy pen drive files folder by folder.
Copy important Files: Backup your important files and save it on a virus free drive. Scan your pen drive: Running an antivirus application will determine, whether or not your pen drive is infected by virus or any other malware infection, if you find any malwares / viruses delete it. Here’s how you can remove virus from your pen drive However removing a virus from a pen drive is not impossible. When you try to delete a file an error message pops-up saying “Access denied”. The files in pen drive are displayed in weird characters like “ΩäCÄφyu.┼" or "√¬O+úφ.$⌡"and so on. A pen drive infected with virus has the following symptoms. Viruses on pen drive can severely damage the files stored on it and worse make the drive inaccessible and unusable. However since these devices are plug and play, they are more prone to virus infection than any other devices. Pen drives offers many useful features like high storage capacity, portable, speed etc. 
Many people frequently use pen drives to store and transfer a wide and variety of data between computers.
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