Below are steps about how to format USB to FAT32 with Command Prompt. However, if you fail to format hard drive to FAT32 successfully via these two built-in tools and receive formatting errors like " Windows was unable to complete the format" or "The format did not complete successfully", you can turn to DiskPart.exe tool. Usually, you can format a disk to FAT32 in File Explorer and Disk Management. Full guide: Diskpart format to FAT32 in Windows 11/10/8/7 ③If you need to connect your hard drive to a NAS device, but the NTFS won't allow the NAS device to access the drive, then you need to format or convert NTFS to FAT32. ②If you want your device to be compatible with more operating systems, like Mac, Linux and some other older versions of Windows including Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, etc, the FAT32 is the best choice. ①If you plan to use the disk on PS3, Xbox or some other games consoles that only supports FAT32 file system, then you will need to format the disk to FAT32.
Now your USB drive or SD card is ready to be used again.No matter you are using a pendrive, SD card, USB flash drive, SSD or other external hard drives to store your data, you will need to format it to FAT32 in the following situations. Create a new partition with create partition primary and then mark it as active.įinally, we can format the disk with format fs=Fat32 quick. Once you have selected your disk, use clean to remove all existing partitions. Select the disk by using the command select disk X where X is the number of your disk from the previous command. You will want to be 100% sure of your selection here because the following commands will wipe ALL DATA from whichever disk you select. You can usually identify it based on the sizes listed.
Now determine which of these is your Linux disk. This will open the Diskpart command line application in a new window.įrom here, start by using list disk to show all of the disks connected to the PC. Start by launching a command prompt or Powershell session, then run the command diskpart. Here is a super quick way to format a Linux USB drive or SD card on a Windows PC using Diskpart so that it can be repurposed. You may have noticed that if you connect a disk with Linux partitions to your Windows box, that you cannot view all of the files or the size of the drive seems to be reported incorrectly. Format a Linux USB or SD Card Using Windows
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