HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a Windows- based format utility. It can format any USB Flash drive in FAT, FAT32, or NTFS file systems and creates DOS startup disks that can help boot a PC. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is portable freeware, so you can carry it on a USB drive and format other Flash drives on any Windows PC, or even copy it to a PC, run it, and then just delete it. High-level formatting helps in creating the file system format within the logical volume or within the disk partition. Disk formatting is usually done with the help of a disk formatting utility. While preparing the hard drive for initial use, disk formatting checks for errors in the drive. It can scan and repair bad sectors. New in HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.1.8: Allows creation of a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB.