The operating system still provides a built-in way to quickly restructure a USB drive to FAT32, if required, and the steps are identical for both Windows 10 and 11. A fresh format is also a handy ...

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.

In my experience NTFS Is more robust and I format all USB drives for Windows in NTFS. Linux can read and write NTFS (you may need to install ntfs-3g for writing).

To format a USB drive in NTFS File System, you can use the Command Prompt or the File Explorer in Windows 11/10. This guide shows you how.

If you need a USB drive that's widely compatible with different devices, you may want to format it to FAT32. Here's how to do so on Mac and PC.