This is up to US department of defense standards it should be fine for you. Go into disk utility then go into the erase tab on the drives lowest level, then security options, select 7-pass erase.

In XP Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Storage Disk Management Select the drive and partition it as required. trainguy77 said: That is only items that havent been deleted yet. If you cannot format the drive it may not be partitioned. Tested with thousands of flash drives (Compact Flash, CF Card II, Memory Stick Duo Pro, SDHC, SDXC, Thumb Drive, Pen Drive) of the following brands, SanDisk, Kingston, Transcend, Corsair, HP, Sony, Lexar, Imation, Toshiba, PNY, ADATA, Verbatim, LaCie, Panda, Seatech, SDKSK9, Silicon Power, IronKey, and HDE. You should normally be able to format the external drive by selecting it in My Computer and choose Format.Right-click it and select 'Format Partition'. You can see the unable to format external hard drive raw marked as 'Unformatted' here. You will see all disks on your computer in the main interface. Create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB. Install and run AOMEI Partition Assistant on your Windows 11/10/8/7 PC.Scan drive for errors before formatting.Create volume label for USB disk drives.Remove any tracks of malicious software that may have infected it.Erase all data and delete space on flash drives that cannot be removed in the traditional way.In our tests, the program easily formatted our USB drive to the FAT32 file system.Īccording to the developer, the USB Disk Storage Format Tool has the following features: The USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a freeware program that allows you to format a USB drive using FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and EXFat file systems.

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