Command prompt or cmd is a powerful tool which presents in windows which executes command entered by the user.Command prompt can be used to control whole system. It is used to launch applications ,formatting drives to creating partitions and even shutting it down and restart the system. In this post we will be Knowing about formatting the a drive or pendrive or hard disk using command prompt which could probably remove everything from the drive, this may also removes the virus from the pendrive.
Sometimes when you try to format the pendrive using normal way by Right clicking on drive and choosing the format option it may refuse to format the drive and you may not be able to use it unless you format it then you have to force the pendrive to get formatted and this can be done using command prompt with just a simple command.
Format Pendrive or hard disk using command prompt:
1.Press start and type cmd and hit "Enter"
2.Now connect your pendrive to the computer and type the command the command"format x:" where x is the location of the device and press enter.
3.Once you type the command and press enter once you press enter it requests to insert a pendrive.if you have already connected it hit enter.
4.But it takes lot of time to format the pendrive.If you cant wait too long to format the pendrive then you can quick format it too.
5.If you want to make a quick format then type the command "format /q x:" where q in the command line stands for quick format while x is the pendrive location.once you press the enter key the process initialises and it will prompt you to assign a label to the pendrive.You can either assign a label or simple press enter.
6.Quick format will take less than 2 seconds to completely erase the data on the pendrive.
Click here to know how to Format using Diskpart.
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