In this guide, we'll show you the steps to format a USB flash drive on Windows 11 using File Explorer, Settings app, Disk Management tool, Command Prompt, and PowerShell.

That's usually not a problem when formatting a drive from a Windows PC, but regardless, this tool ensures you'll never run into that. How to format (initialize) a new internal hard drive ...

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.

After clicking Format, a small window will appear. Here you’ll be able to give the hard drive a name, choose which file system the drive will use, and determine the allocation unit size.