Trying to format Fat32

[FireLegend]

Im trying to format my Samsung USB C stick (64GB) to Fat32. Now that's practically impossible ive been seeing a lot of videos where people use tools such as the one im looking at which is ridgecrop. The website is just .co.uk after but it is http which also doesn't convince me its very safe. I scanned with AVG and comes back all safe although when I put the file in Totalvirus.com one vendor flagged it as malicious. Now that is most likely because it formats drives but still doesn't make me comfortable using it. Anyone used this before and know it's fine to use? Just me being very precarious so I dont infect my system with malware or a virus. 

 

Video: https://youtu.be/s4EX5DMEZH0?si=_TiXqYiksZLU6ucI

[OhioYJ]

Honestly on Windows machines I don't fight with the Windows disk manager, or partition tool. If it's being a pain and won't do what I need, I boot up into Linux for a moment, fix the disk / drive, and be done with it. 
 

A live distro like Linux Mint, and Gparted would be my go to solution for this. Honestly even if you are a Windows user, having a flash drive around with Linux on it is always handy for all sorts of things, even just basically troubleshooting.

[FireLegend]

10 minutes ago, OhioYJ said:

Honestly on Windows machines I don't fight with the Windows disk manager, or partition tool. If it's being a pain and won't do what I need, I boot up into Linux for a moment, fix the disk / drive, and be done with it. 
 

A live distro like Linux Mint, and Gparted would be my go to solution for this. Honestly even if you are a Windows user, having a flash drive around with Linux on it is always handy for all sorts of things, even just basically troubleshooting.

I dont think Linux would make a difference. Basically if its 32GB then Fat32 would be fine but foricng it to format into something that isn't supported for that storage size makes it a lot more complicated.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, FireLegend said:

I dont think Linux would make a difference. Basically if its 32GB then Fat32 would be fine but foricng it to format into something that isn't supported for that storage size makes it a lot more complicated.

Have you tried linux? It should be able to force it for >32gb drives I've done it before

[OhioYJ]

15 minutes ago, FireLegend said:

I dont think Linux would make a difference. Basically if its 32GB then Fat32 would be fine but foricng it to format into something that isn't supported for that storage size makes it a lot more complicated.

Linux is my primary OS. My opinion, but pretty much everything is easier in Linux (except gaming). Right now I'm gaming, so I'm in Windows... Otherwise, I'd covert over a larger one to show you. However here's a random example from my flash drive draw to show you (just took this screenshot): 

 

 

Linux won't care. Obviously Windows recognizes it just fine was well. 

 

[FireLegend]

1 minute ago, OhioYJ said:

Linux is my primary OS. My opinion, but pretty much everything is easier in Linux (except gaming). Right now I'm gaming, so I'm in Windows... Otherwise, I'd covert over a larger one to show you. However here's a random example from my flash drive draw to show you (just took this screenshot): 

 

 

Linux won't care. Obviously Windows recognizes it just fine was well. 

 

Oh fairs. But isn't Linux an OS? I really like windows but just to format a usb stick to fat32? I thought i cant have 2 OS's on one drive.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, FireLegend said:

Oh fairs. But isn't Linux an OS? I really like windows but just to format a usb stick to fat32? I thought i cant have 2 OS's on one drive.

You can make a live USB with linux so it doesn't affect any of the data on your internal drives.

[OhioYJ]

5 minutes ago, FireLegend said:

Oh fairs. But isn't Linux an OS? I really like windows but just to format a usb stick to fat32? I thought i cant have 2 OS's on one drive.

Yeah as @Electronics Wizardy pointed out, you would just need a spare USB flash drive (not the one you want to format). Linux can be run temporarily / boot from the USB drive (it won't be installed). Then when you are done you just reboot (and pull the Linux USB drive out), and your PC will boot back to Windows.
 

They are handy for things like this. Also handy for trouble shooting. As you can eliminate Windows as the issue. Does your hardware still act up in Linux? If it does, likely the hardware. If it works fine, then you start looking at software / drivers.  Among many other handy things it's useful for. 

[OhioYJ]

14 minutes ago, FireLegend said:

Oh fairs. But isn't Linux an OS? I really like windows but just to format a usb stick to fat32? I thought i cant have 2 OS's on one drive.

Also note you can have two OS's on one drive. However I don't usually recommend this route. I generally prefer the two drive method for dual booting. Typically I have less issues with Windows on one drive, and Linux on the other. In my experience this is the best way to prevent yourself from having a boot partition issue at some point.