USB Flash Drive Format Tool for Windows

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Developer’s Description

Format USB flash drive securely and create bootable USB stick to install Windows.

USB Drive Format Tool is a tiny freeware utility designed for formatting any USB storage devices (USB Flash drive, USB stick, USB pen drive, USB portable drive, and SDCard) in FAT, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS file systems. To get started, you will need to connect the USB device that you intend to work with to the computer, so the utility can detect it and display it in its main screen. Users simply need to specify the USB device they wish to format, select the file system and assign the volume a label, then optionally choose quick format or enable compression. One of the differences between USB Drive Format Tool and the regular formatting tool found in Windows is the fact that this freeware allows users to securely erase data on USB drives with 12 algorithms of industrial strength, while the Windows version does not provide this option to wipe any disk drive.

Moreover, the free tool can be used to format USB storage devices that cannot be formatted by Windows; anyone who encounters this problem "windows was unable to complete the format" might use this tool to repair the USB drives that are behaving badly. Users can easily recover any USB Flash drive to its full capacity by removing any tracks of malicious software, preloaded software, pop-up ads, or hidden disk partitions that cannot be removed in the traditional way. Furthermore, one also has the possibility of creating a DOS startup USB drive, or making a bootable USB stick to setup Windows, by either using a Microsoft Windows Setup CD/DVD, or an ISO image file located at a specific path. The conversion from ISO to USB is straightforward; the software helps you write the ISO image file to USB disk. You only need to select the ISO file you want to burn, and select the USB flash drive, then the software can quickly burn the entire ISO file. Meanwhile, you can create bootable USB disk with a USB flash drive. The software has been tested with many storage device units for safety and stability.

USB Flash Drive Format Tool for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: January 30, 2017

Latest update: July 3, 2025

Version: 2.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2003
Windows Vista
Windows Server
Windows 10
Windows XP
Windows 7
Windows 8

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Total Downloads: 47,368

Downloads Last Week: 8

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User Reviews

3/5

4 User Votes

not free at all
campah1April 29, 2018
Pros
Does only work if you buy the pro version for about US $20.00.
Cons
Claims to be free but it's not
Summary
One can not even try it for free
A reliable utility to safely erase data on my USB drive
MaryOnCloudSeptember 29, 2017
Pros
I have tried many different software programs to erase data on my USB flash drive, and eventally found what I need. USB Flash Drive Format Tool erases my USB flash drive for more than 10 passes. Great!
Cons
It's for Windows only, no Mac OS X version.
Summary
Fast and realiable. Thumb up.
False claims--not really free
kevinwc11May 28, 2017
Pros
This WILL format to existing partition size ("Quick Format"), not sure if this free version really will write bootable partition or do anything else it claims.
Cons
Most claims made seem to apply to the paid version only, NOT to this free version.
Summary
I had a 8GB USB drive that was partitioned to 2GB by a Dell diagnostic utility, and I needed to restore it to the full 8GB size. Although the description indicates that this will reformat a drive to any size, there was no such option. If you need to do anything more than the most basic format operation which can be done with the built-in operating system utilities (windows, etc.) you will probably need to get the pay version of this software. I found a free utility called HPUSB that would do what I needed, and it didn't try to sell me anything.
Easy to download and worked perfectly for my USB stick.
LindaJacksonAtworkJanuary 31, 2017
Pros
Worked when my other formatting tool wouldn't on Windows 10. I have a write protected sandisk that once used on Mac and once used for linux boot.
Cons
This free download is able to format my USB thumb drive that could not be formatted with Windows built-in formatting tool. No cons to date!
Summary
Easy to download and worked perfectly for a USB stick I was unable to format through Windows.