Universal program for formatting flash drives. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

SD Card Formatter is a free desktop program for formatting SD/SDHC/SDXC cards. It is an indispensable tool for restoring the compatibility of SD and microSD memory cards with operating systems and devices. Correct formatting does not always, but in many cases eliminates the problem of file system incompatibility.

The SD Formatter application is designed entirely to work with memory cards, format them using SD / SDHC / SDXC standards. Therefore, if for some reason your sd card is not formatted, we strongly recommend SD Formatter as a formatting tool instead of the standard utilities included with the operating system. Those applications also work with almost all types of flash drives and cards, but the result is not optimal in terms of speed. Manufacturers advise formatting the sd card using special applications. SDFormatter is one of the best for formatting.

How to format an android device

In fact, formatting the memory of a tablet or phone running Android is not difficult.

To format the memory card, you need to go to Settings - Privacy - Reset settings. However, in the latest versions of Android, this method is not available, so we would advise you to format the memory card on your computer. How to do it - read below.

How to format a phone tablet through a card reader

To format a tablet or phone, you will need a card reader and the installed sdformatter program, which can be downloaded from the link above.

We take out the microsd / sd card from the android device
We take a card reader, connect it to a computer and insert a memory card into it
Run the sdformatter program
In the list of disks in the sdformatter window, specify the letter of the memory card connected through the card reader (you can check the correspondence by the disk label or by the contents of the memory card). Be careful, make sure that you are going to format exactly the memory card that was in the phone!
We go into the settings of the sdformatter program (Option button) and select the Full OverWrite formatting type.
Click Format, wait for the formatting to finish.
We take out the sd card from the card reader and insert it into the phone.

How to format a memory card on your phone using SD Format

You can read about how to work with SD Formatter in the official instructions or follow the instructions in the Message Area of the program. The utility is very simple in its design, and we will note the key features when working with it.

Download SD Card Formatter

The first thing you need for successful formatting is to download the SD Memory Card Formatter application.

Important. Administrator rights are required to run SD Card Formatter.

Connecting a memory card to a computer

We carefully remove the memory card from the mobile phone (or tablet) and connect it to the PC using a card reader. Alternatively, you can simply connect the device to your computer, which has the SD Memory Card Formatter program installed.

To work with media, you will need one of the following special devices:

USB SD Card reader - a separate device, connected accordingly through the USB port of the computer
SD Card slot - usually available in any laptop/Macbook.

Formatting settings

Formatting is configured through the Option window. The Format Options provide two types of formatting:

Quick format - files and folders are marked as writable, but the formatting does not affect the data in the files
Full (Overwrite) format - the program also deletes the contents of files.

In other words, after Quick format, you can still try to recover files, while after Overwrite format, the chances are extremely small.

Selecting a disk to format

From the Drive list, select the sd card to format. As a rule, the program does this on its own. Conveniently, hard disk partitions are not displayed here, so it's hard to get confused and select the wrong disk. However, it is still worth double-checking the name of the letter if other storage media are connected to the computer.

If the flash drive was inserted into the SD slot after the program was launched, the disk may not be displayed immediately. In this case, you need to click the Refresh Button and check the status field. The blue logo in the main window indicates the successful connection of the SD card.

A similar scenario is also valid if you do not know how to format an Android phone: follow the instructions exactly, SD Format is quite suitable for working with this mobile OS.

Performing formatting

To apply the settings, click OK, to start formatting - Format in the main program window.

When formatting is complete, a window will appear with the status Memory Card Format Complete! Information about the file system, available memory card capacity, and cluster size is also available here.

Instructions on how to format an SD card

Summary. SD Formatter is an excellent program for formatting microsd, sd and other memory cards. If you do not know how to format an sd card using standard means or are faced with certain problems reading information from a memory card, this utility will provide all possible assistance. The program is absolutely free and safe, and you should not be afraid that after formatting you will get a "brick" at your disposal.

Supported SD card interfaces

The sdformatter utility supports multiple device interfaces for working with SD, SDHC, microsd and SDXC

SD slot on computer
USB SD reader
PC card, CardBus or Express Card SD adapter (ExpressCard SD)

Before downloading sdformatter and just before starting to work with the application, you need to make sure that you have the ability to work with the sd-card using one of the above protocols with the sdformatter program.

SDFormatter application interface

SD Formatter interface A few SDFormatter program settings required when formatting a memory card. If your memory card is not being formatted, we advise you to pay close attention to all parameters without exception.

1 Status

This field shows the status of the SD memory card/SDHC/SDXC memory and the device interface.

Blue: activity status.
No logo: SD memory card or SDHC/SDXC memory card or SD interface of the device is disabled.
Grey: no connection. These can be SD memory cards, SDHC/SDXC cards recognized by the SD Formatter utility.

2 Drive

This list indicates the disks of the SD memory/memory card, SDHC/SDXC card that have been opened and recognized by the SD Formatter. A drive from this list can be selected for formatting the SD memory card.

3 Size (Size) sd card

This field indicates the capacity of SD/SDHC/SDXC cards on the selected drive.

4 Message Area

This area displays messages or notifications from SD Formatter to users. This area is useful for additional information in case the sd card not formatted.

5 Refresh Button

This button is used to update the information on the SD memory card/memory card or SDHC/SDXC storage cards. When this button is pressed, the SD Formatter receives the latest information from the SD storage card. This button is useful when new memory cards, SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards are added via the unit's SD interface.

6 Volume Label

This field in the sdformatter program is used to display the label of the sd volume. Enter a new volume label that will be written to the SD card during formatting. You can enter up to 11 characters in the Volume Label field. If the volume label name was NOT English, this field may not display correctly. In this case, you should enter a new sd card volume label in English.

7 Select button (Option)

This sdformatter utility button is used to select options when performing a format operation. When the button is pressed, a window with options to format the SD card is displayed on the screen.

8 SD card format options

This area shows the current SD card formatting options selected in the format window options. If the sd card is not formatted, you should vary with the program options.

9 SD start button (Format)

This button starts formatting the sd memory card. After clicking this button, a format confirmation window will appear on the screen. You can continue or cancel formatting the disk/sd card.

10 Exit button

This button is used to exit the SD Formatter application after the memory card has been formatted.

It should be noted that memory cards supporting SD/SDHC/SDXC protocols have a so-called protected area dedicated to standard security features. The SD Formatter 4.0 utility does not format this same security zone. Therefore, always use an appropriate application or an SD compatible device to provide an SD protected function to format the protected area on the memory card.

System requirements to run sdformatter

This information will be useful if your memory card is not being formatted and you need to install the sdformatter application.

If an sdxc card is connected directly through the computer's sd slot without installing a driver, the card may not be recognized correctly, and therefore a message will appear asking you to format it. In this case, do not agree and do not format the memory card: this may result in a complete deletion of data on the storage device and unwanted formatting in a file system that is not compatible with the SDXC device.

SD Card Formatter vs Standard Formatting Tools

In Windows and Mac OS, basic tools are available for formatting a hard drive, usb drive, and sd card. However, this method is not recommended as formatting can significantly degrade the performance of the storage device.

There is no such drawback in SD Card Formatter. Moreover, the program is often used to fix memory card recognition problems after incorrect standard Windows formatting.

Unlike system utilities, SD Formatter does not affect the protected area. This reserved area on the memory card is required for security functions. Formatting is not recommended.

As the developers of SD Formatter clarify, formatting is configured for maximum performance (for the FAT file system). Thus, when formatting, you can use the default settings.

Like other programs, SD Formatter cannot format encrypted memory cards (for example, BitLocker To Go). Therefore, a mandatory step is to decrypt the content before performing the operation.

Answers to questions from readers

How to format a flash drive on Android?

Answer. To format the memory card of an Android device, you need to remove the card from your phone or tablet, then connect it to your computer using a card reader. After that, open SD Formatter and find the flash drive in the list of storage devices. All subsequent actions are described in the instructions for formatting a memory card above in the text.

The operating system gives an error with the following content: "Windows cannot complete formatting." What would it mean, how to solve the problem?

Answer. Usually this error appears in two cases: if for some reason it is not possible to complete the formatting or it is not possible to format the USB flash drive using standard OS tools.

There are two methods for solving formatting errors and, accordingly, two tools. The first is the built-in system utility diskmgmt.msc (launched via Start - Run). The second program, you guessed it, is the sd formatter. Through it, you can perform quick and deep (low-level) formatting of the microsd card.

What is low-level formatting microsd?

Answer. - this is a type of formatting a memory card and a flash drive, in which cleaning and subsequent testing are performed, a file table is created and copied to the service section of the storage device. As a rule, low-level formatting should be resorted to only in extreme cases, if the microsd or sd card works with errors.

I recently bought a 16 GB memory card. The phone supports more, but during operation there was a problem when using the phone for an hour or two for a long time. Applications on the memory card open and immediately close, but when the phone is rebooted, everything gets back to normal, and then it's bad again. Why is that?

Answer. Not the fact that the problem is related to the memory card. If a certain application causes a conflict, it may affect the operation of other programs. It might be running in the background.

Check if there are any unnecessary applications on your phone. Removing them may improve the situation.

If the method with deleting applications does not work, try formatting the microsd memory card. This can be done both through the phone (in the Android settings), and through the card reader, on the computer. SD Formatter is just this very program for formatting a memory card.

Flash drive problem. 2 days ago I bought a new 16 gig flashcard. I inserted it on Android and completely formatted it and then moved the files from Android to it. After formatting the sd card, everything is fine, but when I download some videos and applications from the Internet after 5 minutes, they are damaged. More precisely, he writes: it is impossible to play the video and the black screen. The application writes: error parsing the package. I formatted the microsd again - everything seems to be clean. And the files get corrupted again. last night in the android folder in the sd card I saw strange files with an unknown format 2-3 gig in size. I tried to delete, but writes a failure when deleting. rebooted Android and they disappeared. could it be a virus or something else?

Answer. The package parsing error in Android occurs, as a rule, due to the wrong size of the apk file. This means that the installer was not completely copied to the microsd card.

It is possible that the wrong format was specified during formatting. Android supports FAT and exFAT, try this one or that one. See above for how to format a microsd using SDFormatter.

If the problem persists, uninstall unnecessary and recently installed applications on the phone, as a last resort, update the Android firmware.

The phone sees the flash drive, reads the photos that were on the flash card, but does not open applications on the flash drive. Samsung galaxy s3 mini phone.

Answer. If you can't open apps on your phone, you can move them to your phone's internal storage using the app manager. The second option is to download them again from Google Play and install them on a memory card.

If the application still does not open, format the memory card in FAT or exFAT.

I was watching a video on the Nomi_i4510 phone and suddenly I forgot about the percentage of the charge and the phone passed out. I put it on charge, turned it on, and it says to me in the notifications they say "sd card is missing, if you can't connect the sd card, press forget the device." I reboot the phone and go into the settings, then into the storage and drives, and there is such a picture: the internal storage SD card (damaged) and below - the SD card is missing. I go into the SD card is damaged and it says that in order to continue using the SD card, you need to format it. I click "Format" and now it's formatted, everything is ok. But the fact is that the SD card partition (missing) is still there and the reboot does not help. That is, the SD card is connected and working normally and as if it is missing. What to do, how to format the sd card?

Answer. Try formatting the sd card not through the phone, but using the sd formatter program. Also try inserting another memory card into your phone and check if information about the missing card appears. If yes, update the phone firmware and reboot the device. As a last resort, you will have to perform. Whether the game is worth the candle is up to you (be sure to save all important files from your phone to your computer beforehand).

About 2 months ago I bought a HUAWEI LUA - 21 phone. It reads a memory card, but when I download a photo or a program from the Internet, they always write: "no memory", although I have a new micro flash drive. And every time the notification "Preparing SD card" appears.

Answer. The appearance of errors may be due to incorrect formatting of the memory card. This is a fairly common problem, it is easy to fix it:

remove the sd card from the phone,
connect to PC (via card reader)
copy the files from the flash drive to the PC (make a backup copy)
format the memory card to Fat32 or exFAT
copy files from PC back to flash drive

After these steps, the sd card should be normally detected by the phone.

Can you please tell me if it is possible to decrypt the sd card with this program? Since there was a failure in the phone, and the files remained encrypted and the phone does not read them.

Answer. Unfortunately, you will not be able to recover encrypted data after a factory reset. Neither additional software like SD Formatter, nor the built-in features of Android will help. For further use, you need to format the sd card. It is clear that you will lose encrypted data on microsd.

Formatted phone. Now he asks for an account that has been synced with him. I don't know this account because I turned off sync. What to do?

Answer. Probably, we are talking about a Google account, which is indicated in the Android settings or immediately at the stage of initial phone setup. Create a new Google account and connect a new email.

Phone Lenovo A7000. Reads microsd as internal memory. There is a lot of free space on the map, but it does not even allow applications to be updated. I deleted a bunch of applications, left only the most necessary - I still can't download anything. How to make a memory card an external media? Resell only?

Answer. Most likely, the problem is in the wrong formatting of the card. Try formatting the sd card on your computer, choosing Fat or extFat as the file system on microsd. The SDFormatter utility will cope with this task.

It is far from always possible to format a USB flash drive using the utilities built into Windows. If you have already tried all the methods available in the system, it's time to consider programs for formatting a flash drive ... unfortunately, if the standard methods do not help, saving data from such a medium is much more difficult!

We will try to consider the most popular and versatile utilities for working with flash drives or memory cards. Almost every manufacturer has its own proprietary utility for working with external drives - we will not focus on them. There are paid applications - I deliberately do not include them in the review, there are enough free alternatives.

Important! Before formatting the flash drive, copy all its contents to your computer. All data on the formatted device will be permanently deleted

I am writing a note based on my professional experience and I may be wrong with this collection, but I can confidently say that the utilities listed here are widely used by specialists when working with flash drives (and not only).

Probably for the first time I will not direct you to the official site, but will upload all software distributions to the note itself - some official resources are not available ... and the rest are only in English - but you can always google if you need it!

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - formatting utility

If you need to format a problematic SD card or a regular flash drive, then you definitely need to first test the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - anyone will tell you that this is the No. 1 program for their purposes without exaggeration. So, download the archive with the program (only 500 kilobytes)

Unzip the archive to any place convenient for you and run the program as an administrator (otherwise it won't work)... as usual, right-click and select "Run as administrator" from the menu!

I like the HP USB Storage Format Tool for its simplicity - just a couple of buttons are enough for almost any formatting of a flash drive! In the drop-down menu "Device" select your drive. In the "File system" select the file system (FAT32 or NTFS) ... set the volume label and optionally check the box "Quick Format" (Quick Format) and click Start ...

... after formatting, you will receive a report on the process as in my picture below - this means that the flash drive is formatted and can be removed.

Quite often, flash drives lose read or write speed over time - this is easily solved! Just try reformatting your drive and uploading your data to it again - verified!

HDD Low Level Format Tool - low-level formatting

We actively used the HDD LLFT utility to revive client hard drives. Quite often, bad sectors were fixed if you perform a low-level formatting of the drive - this is not fast, but it allows you to save on buying a new hard drive.

In the process of work, it turned out that this program perfectly supports not only classic hard drives, but also various memory cards and USB flash drives familiar to all of us.

Not so long ago I received a letter:

My external hard drive is not detected correctly in the system - when connected, a notification appears that I need to format the drive. Formatted on another computer and found a lot of bad sectors ... is there a way to somehow "correctly" format my hard drive?

Of course you can - all this applies to flash drives. The request to format it is not so uncommon and is probably more common than on the HDD. We can use the free version as well. Differences from paid only in speed (180 GB per hour)

At the first start, select our flash drive in the list of devices and click "Continue" (in my case, this is a flash drive from SONY)

Go to the "LOW-LEVEL FORMAT" tab and click FORMAT THIS DEVICE

Important! After a low-level formatting of a flash drive, it is almost impossible to recover information from it even in specialized companies (not to mention public programs for recovering deleted files)

Do you understand that by pressing the "Yes" button you will destroy all the data on the flash drive? ...

... and wait for the end of the data erasing process. After completion, the progress bar will turn yellow - this means that the formatting is complete!

Please note that after formatting the LLFT HDD, you must re-create the partition on the USB flash drive through Disk Management or simply run it again through HP USB DISK STORAGE FORMAT TOOL - otherwise you will not see your drive in Windows Explorer.

USB Disk Storage Format Tool

I looked at what my colleagues are writing about formatting external devices - in the top of most resources, the USB Disk Storage Format Tool utility. Here is what the developers stated (by the way, their official website was unavailable at the time of this writing):

Allows you to format flash drives where standard methods did not help
Checking and fixing Bad Blocks
Low-level formatting of flash drives and other goodies

What did I actually get?

Unfortunately, on my Windows 10, the program could not even format a known-good USB flash drive ... the worst thing is that when choosing a disk in the list, when you click the “Format Disk” button, he tried to format it - it really scares!

I did not have the opportunity to test the program on Windows 7 or earlier OS. I cannot recommend a utility that does not work on the current version of Windows. However, I’ll post it anyway - all of a sudden, the program was really relevant earlier, and the unavailability of the official site does not give you the opportunity to download it without problems ...

Default password: itshnegcom

I noticed that without assigning a label, the program does not even try to format the USB flash drive.

I want to draw your attention to the fact that when you exit the program, it tries to impose on you the installation of third-party software and constantly asks you to buy the full version ... in general, the IT blog does not recommend it!

Results

Now you know the key programs for formatting a flash drive. As I already said, some manufacturers of USB drives have proprietary utilities - if nothing from this note suits you, then you should not ignore them ... the most popular JetFlash Recovery Tool works with A-DATA and Transcend drives (but you can experiment on another) and Kingston USB Format Tool you know for whom.

If the flash drive is write-protected for reasons unknown to you ... then most likely it has simply exhausted its resource. I didn’t find this confirmation anywhere, but after talking with familiar experts, we agreed that when the resource is exhausted, the drive simply switches to the “Read Only” mode

What is a hard drive formatter? In different cases, it can be a powerful software package or a small utility with a couple of functions.

In addition to formatting, such programs can perform many tasks when working with hard drives and partitions.

Let's take a look at them.

One of the most powerful representatives of software that works with disks and partitions. In addition to formatting, Acronis Disk Director performs many tasks - from creating partitions to scanning and defragmenting disks.

The program allows you to create striped and mirrored volumes. The work of alternating is similar to RAID 0, and the mirror ones perform the function RAID 1.

Acronis Disk Director is notable for the fact that it works "in pair" with other software from Acronis - Acronis True Image. Bootable disks are created from this bundle, allowing you to solve most problems with disks and data.

MiniTool Partition Wizard

MiniTool Partition Wizard is a program for formatting an external hard drive. It can do almost everything that Acronis does, but there are significant differences.

1. The program is free.
2. MiniTool Partition Wizard allows you to convert NTFS to FAT and vice versa, while the data on the disk is saved.
3. There is a function to check the partition surface for reading errors with visual support of the process.
4. It is possible to move Windows (system partitions) to another drive.

EaseUS Partition Master

Another program for formatting a hard drive to fat32. EaseUS Partition Master has several features that are different from previous representatives:

1. Able to clone disks, both as a whole and only the OS.
2. Create boot disks.
3. Clean up disks of large or unnecessary files.
4. Optimize selected sections.

HDD Low Level Format Tool

HDD Low Level Format Tool is a program for low-level hard disk formatting. It has no other functions than reading S.M.A.R.T data from the disk, if supported, and device data (name, serial number, etc.). Works only with physical drives.

Among other things, HDD Low Level Format Tool has an official portable version that does not require installation.

The conclusions are as follows: no matter how good Acronis Disk Manager, but MiniTool Partition Wizard still free. If you want to have at hand (why?) a powerful program with many functions, then take a closer look at the first three, but if you are going to just bring the disk to a pristine state, then HDD Low Level Format Tool Help you.

Introducing programs for securely formatting a flash drive

In this article, we will address the issue what program to choose for formatting flash drives. Nowadays, flash drives of various types are used everywhere.

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Let's get down to business...

Introduction

In terms of convenience and speed of work (in the movement of information), it is better not to find a device with a flash drive. But like any device, a flash drive can fail, that is, break. Their breakdowns are different.

For example, if it is a mechanical failure, such as the flash drive fell to the floor and became unreadable, or the flash drive was in water, and so on. Such breakdowns are usually almost not even repaired, only if in a specialized repair.

But since their prices are not very high now, then repairing them in a specialized service is not profitable, unless there was very important data on the flash drive that can often be restored.

From this we can conclude that a flash drive is a rather fragile device and careless use of it can lead to its breakdown and loss of all data on it.

Formatting a flash drive

But it also happens that the flash drive just needs to be formatted in order to improve its performance or change the file system, install ntfs or fat32. Of course, this can be done in the standard way in the operating system ( go to my computer - right click on the flash drive "properties" - format), but that doesn't always help.

But in this case, there are many different programs that help not only change the file system, but also return the flash drive to “life” or improve its speed. These are the programs that we will discuss in this article.

Such advice, if you decide to find a program for formatting a flash drive, then it is advisable to use the same one as the flash drive manufacturer. For example, if you have a Kingston company, then it is advisable to select a utility for Kingston flash drives, but it only has such an opportunity, if not or do not want to bother with the search, then just use the ones below.

But this is not always possible to do, so that you can completely use universal ones for all types of drives.

Let's move on to downloading programs for formatting a flash drive - we present below the 2 most effective and popular

The first program we will analyze will be HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. A very good tool to fulfill our purpose.

Also, you can download it from the official site. The program can be downloaded from this link http://www.teryra.com/articl_comp/kak_otformatirovat_fleshky/HPUSBFW.ZIP (copy, paste into browser and press enter). The program does not need to be installed, just run it.

It is packed in an archive, in order to run it you may need an archiver, in general, this is a standard program, how and where you can download it, see the article how to open a rar file.

And so, the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is very easy to use. All you need is:

Run her
Indicate your flash drive in the first line
Next, specify the file system, preferably NTFS, although FAT32 is also possible
And check the box next to Quick Format. There is a small nuance here. If you just need to change the file system, for example from FAT32 to NTFS, then check the box. The checked box indicates that the formatting will be fast. If we need to fix the incorrect operation of the flash drive or you can’t write files to it at all, then we don’t check the box. This means that the formatting will be complete. With full formatting, in simple terms, some errors that have accumulated on the flash drive are corrected, and perhaps after this process it will work better.

Do not forget that formatting deletes all information from the flash drive, so we copy it if there is anything important

If everything is specified, then click "Start":

The following program is hdd low level format tool

To download it, click here:

Install hdd low level format tool

The installation process is standard, everywhere we click further and further, only in the license agreement window we click "Accept".

The entire program is installed, the only thing is that it is paid and at startup a window will appear asking you to pay or use it for a limited time. But we have enough to perform several operations in full.

If you do not want to pay, then choose a trial version, that is, click the bottom line "Continue for free":

The program looks like the picture below. In our case, as we can see, the program identified two devices, this is a 1.5 Tr hard drive. and a 16 GB flash drive:

How hdd low level format tool works

This program approaches the formatting process more thoroughly. It performs low-level formatting (as stated, although there is an opinion that this process can only be started in the factory, but we are still trying).

In the process of this formatting, sectors are edited, bad zones are excluded. It can show the technical condition of the hard drive (only for hard drives), for this, in the initial device selection window, select your hard drive and click "Continue", and then go to the S.M.A.R.T. tab. and click on the "Get Smart Data" button:

In order to format the flash drive in the initial window, select it ( ATTENTION! HERE VERY CAREFULLY, CHOOSE SLOWLY, Otherwise, you will format your hard drive and lose all the data accumulated over a long time), click "Continue":

In the next window, go to the LOW-LEVEL FORMAT tab and click on “Format This Device” at the bottom. The process of low-level formatting will begin, it will take from 40 minutes to several hours in time:

This program often helps to cope with such a problem as, for example, a flash drive has stopped being read or has begun to work slowly. It is very important to do everything slowly and deliberately. If you are in doubt about something, then it is better to ask someone else than to regret later on hasty actions.

Here we have considered such an interesting and popular question as a program for formatting flash drives. This is very useful information. Thanks to her, in many cases you can save the flash drive from the problems that have appeared.

Currently, one of the most common and versatile storage media is a flash drive. Users know how to fill their USB drive with the necessary information, but they are lost if the device becomes infected with viruses or if a question arises regarding changing the file system format. Therefore, we will devote today's article to such an important concept as formatting.

Consider what programs for formatting a flash drive exist today, and how to use them. When formatting a USB drive, most users resort to using standard Windows tools. To do this, just insert the USB flash drive into the port and right-click on it, then you need to select "Format" and determine the format of the required file system.

However, please note that using the tools built into the operating system, it is not always possible to search for bad sectors, set volume labels and change cluster sizes. Therefore, advanced users download special programs to format their flash drives.

The name of the program	Short description
JetFlash Online Recovery	Universal program, ideal for Transcend and ADATA models. This utility will be useful in cases where your USB drive constantly crashes and errors, does not allow you to read information. The process of the program is to scan and search for non-working memory blocks. Formatting is possible for two file systems - FAT, NTFS. It also provides automatic correction of errors with saving data without deleting all documents from the flash drive.
HP Drive Key Boot Utility	This program is one of the most powerful programs designed to format damaged flash drives. One of its advantages is that it is designed to work with hundreds of models of USB drives. The user will be able to select the file system: FAT, NTFS or FAT32. You can also create a bootable DOS flash drive, which not many formatting programs can boast of.
USB Disk Storage Format Tool	A simple and easy-to-use utility is compatible with flash drives of different brands. It supports FAT, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS file systems. The program scans and fixes errors, sets labels for volumes, and performs low-level formatting at high speed. Unlike other formatters, it can create a bootable USB flash drive for Windows.
HDD Low Level Format Tool	Perhaps this is one of the most versatile programs that can format both flash drives of different models, as well as hard drives, memory cards. The utility has a high speed of work and does not require installation. If you want to "bring" your flash drive back to life, then try this particular program!
MiniTool Partition Wizard	One of the simplest managers that allows you to format partitions and erase clusters. Additional features include: splitting and hiding some sections, copying, resizing and assigning letters. Compatible with MBR and GPT partition tables. Supports NTFS, FAT, EXT as well as Linux Swap.
Aomei Partition Assistant	This utility can be called a large free "combine" that combines a huge number of functions and features for working with hard drives and USB drives. The program is compatible with all popular Windows operating systems, supports the Russian language. According to the developers, the utility works according to a unique algorithm, which allows it to recognize even "very problematic" media.
MyDiskFix	Using this utility, you can restore the real size of "fake" Chinese flash drives, which are often sold with an overestimated amount of memory.

Choose the program that suits your needs and the parameters of the USB drive. Carefully and carefully approach the question of choosing a utility for formatting a flash drive, and then the process of erasing data will not take you more than five minutes!

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