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How to Format USB Flash Drive or microSD Card After Making it a Bootable Drive

Vincent by Vincent
2022-12-02
in Windows, How To
Reading Time: 4 mins read
usb flash drive

There are times when formatting your USB flash drive or SD Card using the file explorer doesn’t work and you will need a command prompt for it to be restored to its default capacity and select the file system of your choice.

This article walks you through the steps you will follow in order to get back your original flash drive capacity. This also applies to SD and Micro SD cards.

Steps to Format USB Flash Drive

Once you are done making a bootable media and installing windows in any other Operating System using Etcher or Rufus, you will need to format it using (Command Prompt) CMD to get back your original USB drive capacity. This command prompt method is necessary since formatting using file explorer doesn’t always work. It works for both USB Drives and microSD Cards that cannot be formatted in any other way. The steps work on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. Here are the steps :

Plugin your Disk

Plugin your flash drive or SD card to your computer and make sure you can see it in your file explorer

Flash Drive

Open CMD then diskpart utility

Open Command Prompt, type ‘CMD’ in Windows search box, and type ‘diskpart’ then click “Enter”  on your keyboard. This should load a second window as shown in the picture below

 diskpart

List the Disks

Type ‘list disk’ on the new window cursor location then click “Enter ” on your keyboard. 

list disk

Select the disk

Select the disk you would like to format. For our case, we will type ‘select disk 3′ then click “Enter” on your keyboard. 

select disk 3

Clean the disk

Type ‘clean’ then click “Enter” on your keyboard. Windows will notify you of the disk once done cleaning. 

clean

Make it the primary partition

Type ‘create partition primary’ then click “Enter” on your keyboard. There should be a success message below it once you click enter. 

create partition primary

Format with NTFS File System

Type ‘format fs=ntfs’ then click “Enter ” on your keyboard. This selects the file system for the drive. If it is an SD Card, type “format fs=fat32” . Give it a few minutes for it to get to 100 percent completion. NTFS stands for New Technology File System or sometimes NT file system. FAT32 stands for File Allocation Table 32 bit. 

Assign

Type ‘assign‘ and click “Enter” on your keyboard so you can add a drive letter to your USB drive or SD card. This last step is crucial as it will allow it to show up in your file explorer with the right capacity and free space. 

assign

If anything goes wrong, feel free to start from the first step to the last.

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