Hi Friends today i will tell you how to format 64GB Pendrive or memory card to Fat or exFat. The process is quite easy, Just follow the steps:
Basically, to format in Windows follow these steps
Now, in order to format your drive so it's 1 whole piece:
Here, you need to run a program called DiskPart. It helps you "clean" hard drives that have many partitions that aren't normally accessible.
After that, you're done, you can exit DiskPart and cmd.
Go back to Disk Management, and now you can see that the whole drive is unallocated.
Basically, to format in Windows follow these steps
- Press Start
- Type "partition", and the link "Create and format hard disk partitions" should pop up
(alternatively, you can just type diskmgmt.msc) - Disk Management will load up at this point. You should see a list of all the drives you have.
- Find your 64GB MicroSDXC. You should see that it's divided into 2 sections, one 16MB "empty" partition, and one 59.45GB exFAT partition
- Normally you could just right click on the partition and delete the partition to combine the empty space, but Disk Management won't let you do it in this case.
Now, in order to format your drive so it's 1 whole piece:
- Go to start, type in cmd
- Right click on cmd, and select "run as Administrator"
- command line will start with Admin privileges
Here, you need to run a program called DiskPart. It helps you "clean" hard drives that have many partitions that aren't normally accessible.
- From cmd line, type diskpart
- A new command line program will start
- Now type "list", it will show you a list of commands.
- Type "list disk", find out which disk is your 64GB micro (mine happens to be disk 8)
- Type "select disk #" (# is your disk you want for cleaning)
- Disk # will be selected.
- Very important: Make sure you have the right disk!
- If you are sure, type in the word "clean". This will completely wipe out the disk that was selected.
After that, you're done, you can exit DiskPart and cmd.
Go back to Disk Management, and now you can see that the whole drive is unallocated.
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