Introduction
You may have bought a thumb drive or HDD that isn't formatted or just not the right type of format. This guide will show you how to format the drive to a file system of your choice using Windows 7-11 file explorer.
What you need
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Open File Explorer.
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You can do that from either of the red highlighted spots, or search for "File Explorer."
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Right-Click on the drive you want to format, and click format
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This is what should pop up.
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If you will be using the drive for Windows, format it as NTFS. If you need a multi-OS drive, exFAT or FAT32 is recommended.
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Use default allocation size.
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If you want to rename your drive, put the new name here.
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Start the format. When It's done, you can close all the windows, and you are done.
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