How to Format USB using CMD | Quick Steps | Easy Method

So here comes the question, how to format a USB flash drive? This page mainly illustrates how to format a USB flash drive using Windows inbuilt Command Prompt, and the following is the detailed guide you should strictly follow.

To format any storage drive in Windows, you just have to right-click on the drive and select the Format option. It's a straight-forward affair. No deep menus, no nothing. But, there will be times when this process fails to format USB drive and throws bizarre errors like unable to format, unable to assign the drive letter, etc.

What's more, it's inevitable to develop bad sectors or corruption issues on a specified flash drive after a long-time use. By formatting, you can easily fix any USB flash drive, pen drive or memory stick that is write protected, virus infected, corrupted, damaged, unreadable, unrecognized by PC and Mobile.

But sometimes due to different reason bad sectors, storage device damage, disk write protection, etc you may receive error message “Windows was unable to complete the format”. If you are also struggling with such a situation, you can use the Command Prompt to format the USB drive. Here this post explained how to How To Format USB Flash Drive Via Command Prompt In Windows 10.

#(How To)Format USB Using CMD

1. First Open CMD with Administrator

2. After type 'diskpart'

3. Now Disk part is Successfully opened. Type 'list volume'

4. After select your volume(ex: select volume 10)

5. Now type 'clean' (to clean your usb partition)

6. After you want to create partition for your usb. type 'create partition primary'

7. Than type 'active' to activate your usb partition

8. Now you want to select your usb partition. Type 'select partition 1'

9. Than type 'active' to activate your usb partition 1

10. Now type 'format fs=(ntfs/fat32) quick (Ex: format fs=ntfs quick)

11. Wait until for your usb format completed

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Now your usb format completed successfully. Now you can able to use your usb.

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