It's up to you if you need these options or something possibly better than Windows default format tool.USB flash drives are this century's floppies, holding everything from personal and medical information to music and pictures and even secure data, with the added advantage of being small and rugged enough for keychain duty. It does add the compression and startup disk option. While you can always format your drive from Windows Explorer or File Explorer, HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool adds some options, but it also leaves a few out.įor example, HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool cannot format to exFAT or the restore to the default option. Our 32GB test drive took under 10 seconds to format to NTFS, so speed is one of HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool's strong suits. You are given a warning before you begin that all the data will be erased and a status of what afterward. To make it a startup disk, you'll need to have system files available somewhere on your computer. After that, you have format options including quick format, enable compression, and create a startup disk. You can choose the file system and volume label (drive name) first. Once you have the right drive selected, you can go through the options. It also detected all of our included card readers, so you'll want to be sure to check the drop-down box to select the proper drive. In our tests, we used a SanDisk Cruzer 32GB thumb drive.
Insert the flash drive you want to format before using it, and HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool will detect your USB drive. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a free, portable app to format or make your USB drive a startup disk.īe sure to run this app as administrator or access to your drive will be denied.
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