Formatting your hard drive is very useful. It’s good for clearing everything off a secondary drive or when installing a new copy of Windows. Formatting is also good for cleaning up storage issues, ...

The Easy Way to Wipe a Hard Drive in Windows Before trying out third-party tools, you can utilize the Format command in Windows to delete the hard drive data permanently.

If you are unsuccessful in formatting USB sticks using Windows on-board tools, you can alternatively use the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool.