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How to format a USB flash drive in Windows 10

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How to format a USB flash drive in Windows 10

If you are using a USB-drives, it is likely that, faced with such a situation when you need to reformat the memory stick, and do it, not by any means known to you, you can not. It is clear that we can try to resort to third-party software, but most likely, they will also not help... It is for this reason, we decided to tell you, how to format a USB flash drive in Windows 10 from the command line . The described method below, very few people know, and if someone has and knows practically no use, since for most PC users, it seems quite difficult, in fact, everything as simple as possible.

1. Press the keyboard «Win + R» key for it to appear on your screen "perform" in which you'll need to register a team, "the cmd", then click on the "OK" button.



2. As soon as you produce the launch of a black screen with the command line, you will need to register a team the following lines: «format / fs: ntfs j: / q», and then, click on «Enter»:





Now, let's see what is entered in the previous step the team:

• format - formatting commands are invoked;

• / fs: ntfs - command allows you to select a file system (here it is possible to register as a «NTFS», and «FAT32» or something else);

• j: - the name of your USB-drive;

• / q - runs the command to "quick format".

3. Now, in the command line, you will see a call to insert removable media (in our example - the drive «J»), in this case, you just need to click on the keyboard «Enter»:



4. Once you see the volume label, then click again on the «Enter»:



5. If you see exactly the same window as in the screenshot below, you could format your USB flash drive in Windows 10 and now, she is the idea, should fully work because the problem that caused a crash when formatting, simply just disappeared.





Please note that this method of formatting is perfect in order to use it to format the external hard drives or other media that, for whatever reason, have failed.

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