Format pen-drive using cmd PART 1

Format pendrive using cmd 

Format pen-drive using cmd  is a common process that may need to be undertaken quite frequently, but unless you have gone through this procedure before it can be a mine field. The last thing you want is to finish the process and end up with an unusable pen drive . Here is a quick step by step guide to Format pen-drive using cmd

Steps

This guide formats your flash drive as FAT32, to format as NTFS simply substitute the term in the command box. FAT32 is the recommended formatting style by this guide but many do prefer NTFS. Follow the Below steps to Format an unconformable Pen-drive.

Step 1. Go into my computer and look down the navigation panel on the left hand side, this lists down to the popular and root menu folders and locations on your computer.

Step 2. Your Pen-drive should be listed in one of these locations, it may be referred to by brand, as portable storage or something similar. Next to this label will be a letter,

Step 3. Go to the windows start menu, click start or the Windows symbol depending on your edition of Windows, then click run.

Step 4. Type cmd into the run dialog box and click OK, this is to start the command prompt window from which you will be able to choose your format style and name your drive.

Step 5. Then the command prompt window is opened and you will need to type ” Format G: ”

 if you want to Format it as FAT32  then type ” Format G: /FS: FAT32 ”

Step 6. The G in this instance refers to our example Pen-drive location, instead you would enter the letter that you remembered or wrote down from the my computer side panel

After you have typed the above command press enter.

Step 7. Here, you will be asked to press enter again and then to give a name for your drive. Follow these prompts then click on enter again.

You have completed the process of Formatting pen-drive using cmd; go back into my computer to check that the formatting has been completed successfully.