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.

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.

Learn how to format (NTFS or FAT32) a USB Pen Drive using CMD in Windows 11/10. You can use a simple Format command or Diskpart tool.

If Windows won't format your USB drive to the FAT32 file system, remove the write protection or use CMD, PowerShell, or free software to do the same.

When exFAT is not showing up on Windows 11, change the port, mark the partition as active, assign drive letter, or reformat the USB 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.

Here is how to create a partition in Windows 11 To open the Disk Management app, open Start > search for Create and format hard disk partitions > click the Open button.

To partition and format your drive, you can use Windows’ built-in tool called Disk Management. You can repartition and format your hard drives in Windows using the Disk Management tool.