You will need local administrator access on the computer to follow these steps.

Below are steps about how to format USB to FAT32 with Command Prompt. However, if you fail to format hard drive to FAT32 successfully via these two built-in tools and receive formatting errors like ' Windows was unable to complete the format' or 'The format did not complete successfully', you can turn to DiskPart.exe tool. Usually, you can format a disk to FAT32 in File Explorer and Disk Management. Full guide: Diskpart format to FAT32 in Windows 11/10/8/7 ③If you need to connect your hard drive to a NAS device, but the NTFS won't allow the NAS device to access the drive, then you need to format or convert NTFS to FAT32. ②If you want your device to be compatible with more operating systems, like Mac, Linux and some other older versions of Windows including Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, etc, the FAT32 is the best choice. ①If you plan to use the disk on PS3, Xbox or some other games consoles that only supports FAT32 file system, then you will need to format the disk to FAT32.

No matter you are using a pendrive, SD card, USB flash drive, SSD or other external hard drives to store your data, you will need to format it to FAT32 in the following situations.

Format a usb drive to fat32 windows 10