You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use.

On Windows 10, you can quickly format a USB flash drive to erase content or fix data corruption using File Explorer, Disk Management, PowerShell, and Command Prompt, and here’s how.

Here are best free USB Flash Drive Format Tools for Windows 11/10 to format a USB drive in multiple file systems e.g., NTFS, FAT, EXT2, exFAT.

ULTIMATE is a combination of a wide swathe of file system hacking tools that [Ben] had developed over the preceding years. Capable of dealing with most FAT variants, Ext4, ...

Make sure to have a backup of all your files as your going to use the DISKPART tool, and any mistake can result in loss of all data. This issue is one of its kind and was accidentally discovered ...

ReFS isn't exactly new in the grand scheme of things, but it hasn't been widely used in Windows so far. However, a recent discovery showed the option to format a drive using the ReFS file system ...

MS-DOS File System is the older FAT filesystem used with MS-DOS and Windows. Note that you can't have files of 4GB or bigger on a FAT volume. UNIX File System (UFS) is exactly what the name suggests.