Flash Drive: How to Format It

The steps to format a flash drive are as follows:

•  Connect the USB flash drive to your computer setup by plugging it into one of the USB port slots.

•  Wait for your computer to detect the flash drive.

You will see a pop-up bubble in the task bar at the bottom right of your screen to notify you that a flash drive has been installed to your computer successfully and is ready to use.

• Open the Start menu from the bottom-left of your screen and click on My Computer.

• Please right click on your flash drive that you have just installed on your computer.

It will come in the list of ‘devices with removable storage’.

•  Click on "Format" from the pop-up menu.

This will open the format window with window title indicating which drive you want to format.

•  You will see a window dialogue box, indicating the capacity of your flash drive.

• Tick the box next to ‘quick format’, if you want to check the flash drive hardware functioning properly and if not leave it unticked.

• Let the allocation unit size remain as the default allocation size.

• Select the file system that you want your flash drive formatted in. The file system attributes which will come are FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT.

• Press the Start button at the bottom of the Format window after you have finalized your selections.

• Confirm your action by pressing the OK button in the pop-up window.

These are the ways by which all your data will be deleted according to specification.