- Start your computer and plug in the flash drive in the USB port.
- Click on “My Computer.” Click on “Manage” in the “Explorer” window of “My Computer.”
- Open the “Device Manager” and locate your USBDrive installed under the “Disk Drives” tab. Right click on “Removable Disk Drive” and click on “Properties” from the menu.
- Click on the “Policies” tab and choose “Optimize for Performance” from the options. Click “OK” and continue.
- Click on “My Computer” and choose the format on the flash drive.
- Choose “NTFS” or “FAT32” depending on the type you want from the dropdown menu box.
- Click “OK” to complete the format.
- Know the other method: Search for tools that allow easy format of flash drives over the Internet. GParted is a formatting tool that you can download from the Internet. Install GParted on your computer. Restart your computer and browse “System: Administration: Gnome Partition Editor.”
- Plug in your flash drive and start GParted. Login with password information.
- Select the flash drive from the dropdown menu in the upper right window of the GParted interface. The list contains all the storage hardware installed on your computer.
- Right click on the display of the drive icon and choose the “Format to” option along with the file system type you wish to format (FAT32, FAT16 and so on).