Patriot Formatter | The Best Format Tool for Patriot Flash Drive

This article will discuss the best Patriot flash drive formatting tool and the most reliable USB, SD card, and memory card recovery software. If you're looking for a free way to format your Patriot device, refer to Part 1. If you've lost files, photos, etc., from your Patriot SD card, USB drive, or other device, refer to Part 2.

Part 1: How to Format Patriot Flash Drive with Patriot Formatter

When trying to use the Patriot USB flash drive, you might encounter such an error – disk in drive needs to be formatted to use. However, even after following the system's guidelines, you are unable to use the Patriot USB or memory card. Why? You need a valid formatting tool to format USB and SD cards correctly. Read on and use the best Patriot formatting tool.

• 1. Overview of Formatting Patriot USB
• 2. How to Format Patriot USB
• 3. What Does Formatting Mean?

User Story - How to Format Patriot USB Flash Drive

Scenario 1: “I just bought a new Patriot USB. Yesterday, when I tried to use it, a dialogue box popped up saying – You need to format the disk before using it. I formatted my new USB as per the Windows instruction. But still, it's not working! Strange!”

Scenario 2. “My USB drive is showing as unrecognized and needs formatting. Oddly enough, I just bought it a month ago and formatted it before saving photos to the Patriot USB.”

Scenario 3: "I inserted my USB drive into the computer's port and right-clicked on the disk icon to choose 'Format.' But I got an error message saying 'Windows was unable to complete the format.' I need a tool to help me!"

Best Free USB Formatting Tool for Patriot

You can format a hard drive partition/USB flash drive/SD card with a partition tool featuring “Format”, for example, tools Partition Master. Its powerful formatting ability and user-friendly feature will be a great help to format Patriot USB or convert FAT to NTFS. Let's see how.

Step 1: Select the USB drive you want to format.

Connect your USB drive or flash drive to your computer. Download and launch a partitioning tool. Right-click the USB drive you want to format, then select “Format.”

Step 2: Assign the USB drive letter and file system.

Specify a new volume label, file system (NTFS/FAT32/EXT2/EXT3/EXT4/exFAT), and cluster size for the selected partition, then click OK.

Step 3: Check “Yes” to confirm the formatting of the USB.

If a warning message appears, click Yes. Back up any important data on the disk beforehand.

Fourth, apply the changes.

First, click on “Execute 1 Task(s)” and then click “Format” to format the USB drive.

[Video Tutorial: How to Format Patriot USB]

"What is 'Format' and what should be done before formatting?"

Formatting a disk (hard drive, floppy disk, USB flash drive, etc.) means deleting all the data on it and setting up a file system so that the operating system can use the selected partition. The most popular file system for Windows is NTFS, but FAT32 is also commonly used.

Before you proceed with formatting, make sure to back up any important data stored on the USB drive. If you haven't done so and the files are of great importance, try using a USB data recovery software to see if it can help. Simply connect your USB drive to the computer and let the recovery tool scan your USB drive for recoverable items.

Part 2: How to Recover Data from Patriot Memory Card or USB Flash Drive

If you accidentally delete or format files on Patriot, how to recover them? You can use a data recovery software to recover data from Patriot memory card or SD card. This software has been dedicated to data recovery for more than ten years and has helped users retrieve lost files.

Connect your USB flash drive or SD card to the computer and start the USB data recovery process by following the instructions:

Step 1: Select the USB drive to scan

Run the data recovery wizard, select the USB drive where you lost important files, and hit “Scan” to start.

Step 2: Preview and check USB Drive Data

After the scan is complete, you can use the filter options and search function to locate specific types of files quickly.

Step 3: Recover Data from Flash Drive

Once the scan is complete and lost USB drive files are found, click on “Recover” to restore them. You should save the recovered files to a secure location on your computer instead of the USB drive.

Conclusions

This is a high-level format. A low-level format, on the other hand, will wipe the entire surface of the disk. After that, you won't be able to recover data from the hard drive, not even with professional data recovery software. Aside from formatting, you can also use the Partition Master tool to manage your Patriot device by resizing, expanding, and creating new partitions.