The infamous Patriot USB Low Level Format tool. This is a well made tool that has two options - Format and Restore to factory settings. It will fix even the most stubborn Patriot USB flash drives. Download (872 KB) - Visit Source Website. The SD Memory Card Formatter does not format the protected area in the SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards. The protected area shall be formatted by an appropriate PC application or SD host devices that provide SD security function. The SD Memory Card Formatter doesn’t support SD/SDHC/SDXC Card encrypted by the “BitLocker To Go” functionality of Windows. A reliable utility tool for PC storage formatting HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a useful utility software for Windows computers. With this program, you can easily format any USB drive in NTFS, FAT32, or FAT file systems. Additionally, the tool can create DOS startup disks, which let you conveniently boot a Windows PC.
In order to better take advantage of your Kingston memory device on different systems, it may be necessary to format the drive. With Kingston Format Utility, you can easily do this with this dedicated application made for Kingston drives.
Though most rarely need to format their thumb drive, it may be necessary when connecting it to different operating systems such as those that run your television, gaming console or Linux/Mac OS X PC.
The usage of this format utility is quite straightforward; just select the drive, the file system and hit the format button. In essence, Kingston's Format Utility is really no different from the built-in formatter included with Windows.
You can also use the Kingston Format Utility to restore the firmware of devices in case your operating system is no longer recognizing your Kingston HyperX storage device.
This application was originally developed for Windows XP and Windows 7 but should work fine on newer versions of Windows.
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from hard drive formatters without restrictions. Kingston Format Utility 1.0.3.0 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.
Filed under:The SD Memory Card Formatter formats SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card and SDXC Memory Card (respectively SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards) complying with the SD File System Specification created by the SD Association (SDA).
It is strongly recommended to use the SD Memory Card Formatter to format SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards rather than using formatting tools provided with individual operating systems. In general, formatting tools provided with operating systems can format various storage media including SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards, but it may not be optimized for SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards and it may result in lower performance.
SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards have a “Protected Area” for SD Card security purposes. The SD Memory Card Formatter does not format the protected area in the SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards. The protected area shall be formatted by an appropriate PC application or SD host devices that provide SD security function.
The SD Memory Card Formatter doesn’t support SD/SDHC/SDXC Card encrypted by the “BitLocker To Go” functionality of Windows. Please format the SD/SDHC/SDXC Card after it has been unlocked.
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The following interface devices can be used to access SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards:
Always confirm that the device is compatible with the SD, SDHC or SDXC memory card before formatting.
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