hey everyone today we're going to be showing you how to format your usb flash
drive or thumb drive on your windows 10 pc it'll wipe
everything right off the drive so it'll be fresh and ready to go for
you to copy your files onto so check it
out
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on any upcoming videos today we're gonna be showing you how to
format your usb thumb drive or flash drive on your windows 10 pc
now this is gonna wipe this drive totally out and restart it so it's like
new and ready for you to copy all your files onto it
now one thing i do want to mention any files that are on here you will lose
so make sure they're all backed up before you begin this process now
let's go ahead and plug this into my computer into the usb slot and then we
can begin formatting it all right so here we are
on my windows 10 computer and the first thing we need to do is
find that usb drive on our computer so i'm going to go ahead and left
click on the start menu here in the bottom left hand corner just go ahead
and left click and then i'm going to find my documents
here and i'm going to left click on that and that's going to bring up my file
explorer here and for myself i'm looking for this
folder called kodak usb now i do want to mention
that yours is going to be called something totally different it's going
to be more than likely the name of your usb
drive so once you've found that make sure it
is the usb drive you don't want to format your hard drive or anything like
that accidentally we want to format our usb
drive and you can see i've got a couple of pictures some videos in here
and we want to just totally wipe that out now i'm going to go ahead
and find that here it says codec usb for me on the left
i'm going to go ahead and right click on top of that and a menu is going to pop
up here and in this menu you're going to see an option here that says format for
myself it's right in the middle i'm going to go ahead and left click on
that and that's going to bring up a format for me it says kodak usb for
you it'll say whatever your drive is called
and in here we can go ahead and make some changes so first off we want to
just leave the capacity as the full amount there's no other options there
for myself we want to select the file system type
now the most common one that people use is fat32
that's the one that's available and to be used on most devices now
that being said i've got this website here let me pull it up for you
and it's on howtogeek.com and i'll put a link below in the description to
for this for you so you can check it out if you want to do some research
on what the different file types are good for and what
operating systems there's a lot of information here on that so you can
check out that chart there for yourself now i'm just going to
select fat32 allocation unit size you can leave that
as is you could also hit restore default or device defaults right there
and that'll restore the defaults for that device and then
there's an option here that says volume label mine says kodak usb right
now maybe i want to change it to ken usb
so just type in whatever you want that thumb drive to be called
leave this quick format selected and then we're just going to go ahead and
hit start here and you're going to see all these pictures and everything is
going to disappear in the background there because that's
what's on that drive so if i hit start here it's going to start
formatting as soon as i hit this so it says format
kodak usb warning formatting will erase all the data on the disk so again make
sure this is all backed up before you do this
go ahead and hit ok and that just closed down it's formatting it right now
format complete i can hit ok and now i'm just going to hit close on that we're
going to go ahead and find that drive again so
left click on your start menu left click on documents
and you can see there's a new drive here it says can usb
e drive and the folder is empty and it's totally formatted
and it's that easy to format a thumb drive or a flash drive
on a windows 10 computer so hope this video was able to give you value in
formatting that thumb drive on your windows 10 computer if it did
make sure to give it a thumbs up also if you're interested i did create a video
on how to format hard drives and delete recovery partitions that
might be locked on your windows 10 computer i'll put a link to that video
below in the description also remember to connect with me on social media you
will find all the links below as well i'd love to
connect with you thanks so much for watching today and until next time
take care