Format Pendrive through CLI in Windows

Pendrive space reduced / Not showing Pendrive space:-

If your pendrive not showing space available or it showing less space even though your pendrive is empty. In this case you may try to format pendrive through windows GUI but it does not works, So you don’t need to worry. We can format via CLI in windows to reclaim the space. You have to follow below steps.



Steps to reclaim your pendrive space:-
STEP 1: win + R and type cmd -> you need to open cmd prompt as a administrator
STEP 2: diskpart
STEP 3: list disk -> list connected disk on your computer (eg: hardisk, pendrive, external hardisk)
STEP 4: select disk 1
STEP 5: list partition
STEP 6: clean
              list partition
STEP 7: create partition primary
              list partition
STEP 8: format fs=fat32 quick  -> format your pendrive through CLI











Warning: Please make sure while selecting disk, If suppose you select wrongly hardisk of your computer then you must be careful before doing the STEP 6. You may lose your data inside hardisk.


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