HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a program that provides formatting of flash drives. The utility has functions that will quickly clean a USB device of any size. The program works after installation through a regular installer and in a portable version. The portable version is more convenient to use - the utility can be carried on a flash drive or an external hard disk.

Application

The utility is good at formatting data on a flash drive, cleaning its file system and deleting unnecessary data that caused poor performance of the device. It restores the empty sectors of the flash drive and increases the performance of the drive.

The utility provides the following operations:

• provides writing data to the flash drive if their volume is more than 4 GB, bypassing file system protection;
• finds virus threats on the device;
• improves the operation of the flash drive (by formatting it), which has become slow due to junk data and cache files;
• the utility provides creation of bootable flash drives.

Formatting

The program formats flash drives in the main file system types - FAT, FAT32 and NTFS. After launching the program in the "Device" section, select the required device. Selecting a flash drive, do not confuse, because third-party information storage devices may be connected to the computer. Before formatting the flash drive, copy important data to another location, because after formatting all data is irretrievably deleted. Specify the file system format, agreeing to the terms and conditions and click on the "Start" button. The program allows you to change the name for the flash drive before formatting it. The utility formats the flash drive in forced mode. The program skips open files and restores non-working sectors of the device. Format flash drives on Windows OS of any version without installing the program on your computer. The utility works in portable mode.

Key features

• Completely erase information from drives and format flash drives file system;
• fixing errors or virus threats;
• convenient shell with a choice of file system: FAT, FAT32 or NTFS;
• change drive name in any language;
• the program recovers bit sectors of the flash drive;
• converting an ordinary flash drive into a bootable one;
• the utility does not support the Russian language;
• use in portable mode, without installation on a computer;
• simple interface consisting of one small window.