how formate protected usb drive

guys..
many a times u come across the
situation when u want to format your
USB drives or external hard disks..
but u are not able to..because of
some reasons like they are password
protected or protected in some other
way... but it has become very easy to
format external drives... just use this
awesome technique to format them
using command prompt(cmd).....
1) Click Start > Run... and type cmd
in the box then Click OK
2) The command prompt window
appears.
3) Type the following command:
format X:
Note: Replace "X" with the name of
your USB Flash Drive.
4) If you want to format it as FAT32
then type:
format X: /FS:FAT32
5) After typing one of the above
commands, press Enter.
6) When it asks for pressing Enter
again, just press it to confirm.
7) It will prompt you to enter a name
for the drive, write it and hit Enter. chakshu