HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is an application that is designed not only to format flash drives, but also to create a bootable flash drive. The program supports file systems such as FAT, FAT32 and NTFS.
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool allows you to work with the devices through the use of the USB 2.0 port.
To boot the computer from a USB flash drive, first you must set the flash drive as the first device to boot from in the BIOS Setup. The HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool checks the USB flash drive, and then begins to convert it as an HDD device that connects using the USB interface. The media is then formatted with the desired file system.
If you use the NTFS file system on the flash drive, you have an additional opportunity to increase the volume, but only if you enable data compression. The only disadvantage of using this technique is a decrease in the speed of reading and writing data to the medium.
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool features
- Excluding or recovering "broken" clusters on the drive;
- The application supports multiple file systems, namely: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS;
- It is possible to create a "boot area" on the flash drive;
- It is possible to compress information;
- The application forcibly formats the medium while ignoring executable and open files.
