To format a drive using CMD, type the following command, and hit Enter: format E: /fs: ntfs Again, here E is the letter of the USB or external drive that you want to format.

4. Locate your USB drive on the left side and click it. 5. Click Erase at the top of the Disk Utility window.. 6. Next to Format, use the dropdown menu to select MS-DOS (FAT).You can also change ...

If Windows won't format your USB drive to the FAT32 file system, remove the write protection or use CMD, PowerShell, or free software to do the same.