Format Options (Quick Format): If the drive is in good working order, you can select “Quick Format”, which performs a high-level format and finishes quickly.
Volume label: This is the drive name that will appear when you see your formatted drive in File Explorer.
Generally, you never need to modify this setting, so use the default allocation unit size that appears (typically 4096 bytes for NTFS) when selecting the desired file system.
Size of the allocation unit: This is the base block size used by the file system when you format your drive.
If you want the drive to be readable and writable on a Mac too, choose exFAT. In general, you will want to select NTFS if the drive will only be used with Windows. Depending on the size of the drive, your options will be FAT, FAT32, NTFS or exFAT.
File system: A file system is a data structure that tells the operating system how to save and load files to or from a disk.
Formatting takes up some raw disk space due to the way file systems work.
Capacity: This will be the data capacity of your hard drive or SSD once formatted.
We'll look at each item one by one so you can decide Provides options for how you want to format your drive.
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