The Format dialog box now appears.ĩ) Press Start and wait while the process will be completed. Right click on the USB Flash Drive and select Format. It opens the Properties dialog box.Ħ) By default, the Optimize for quick removal option selected, switch it to Optimize for performance and then press OK.ħ) Now open Computer. 2) Click Start, type devmgmt.msc in the Search textbox and press Enter.Ĥ) Find the USB flash drive you want to format, and double-click it. Under Free up space on this PC, note the amount of free space and total size. If you want to delete some private information, or to regain full storage capacity to store more information.

Select PC and devices, and then select Disk space. Erasing USB drive data is a sensible decision.

(If youre using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, click Settings, and then click Change PC settings.). If you do not wanna waste time going through my unnecessarily long steps, here are the short steps that helped me:ġ) Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings, and then tap Change PC settings. I went through a bit of trouble searching the web (could be easy for you and you do not need to read this). But I could not reuse my Flash drive normally as a storage device after this process. Then I gave up on the Ubuntu dream, almost!. I am puting this tutorial after a failed attempt at installing ubuntu using a Flash drive as a BOOTABLE device.

How to clear flash drive