In this case, format the drive via the operating system’s Disk Management. Execute the key combination Windows-X to access the administrative quick menu of Windows.

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.

The operating system will commonly use faster, volatile memory structures such as RAM and caches to make the data "closer" to the processor, and accelerate operations.

Learn how to fix Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk issue while formatting a partition/volume in dual boot.