That is it, you are done formatting USB drive from command prompt. So, execute the below command to assign a drive letter to your USB drive.
#How to reformat a usb drive through command prompt windows#
You have to specifically tell Windows to assign a drive letter. This is because Windows did not assign any drive letter to the newly formatted drive. Even after formatting, you will not see the USB drive in the File Explorer.
You will see it as a checkbox when you try to format drives from File Explorer. The “quick” part in the command is signaling the system to do a quick format. If you want FAT32 file system then replace ntfs with fat32 in the below command. In general, Windows drives are formatted as NTFS. Execute the below command to format the USB drive with the NTFS file system. For that, execute the below command create partition primaryĩ. After cleaning the drive, it’s time to create the primary partition. Execute the below command to clean the USB drive. After selecting the disk, you need to clean it. Once you replace the above command with the actual disk number, the command will look something like this. After identifying the USB drive from the list of disks, type the below command and press Enter to execute the command. So my USB drive is represented as “Disk 2” with 3818MB.Ħ. For instance, I’ve plugged in a 4GB pen drive. You can generally identify the USB drive using its size.
From the above list, identify your USB drive. Execute list disk command to list all the disks in your system.ĥ. You will now be inside the Diskpart utility. To format the USB drive, we need to make use of the Diskpart tool.
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