If your USB storage device (e.g. USB flash drive, removable hard drive, SD card) is experiencing problems like persistent data corruption, virus intrusion, invalid master boot record, presence of hidden partition (after making it a bootable USB), loss of capacity (formatted on non-PC), corrupt bootable sectors, bad sectors in firmware/controller, inability to format, then a low-level formatting tool like USB Low-Level Format can help you fix these faults reliably.

USB Low-Level Format is program that performs zero-filling and simulates the factory-completed finishing process on USB storage devices (in short, a mass production, low-level, or initialization tool), developed by Bureausoft from Fracne. It clears all flags, all data, and all settings in a USB drive. And it analyzes the possible settings of USB drive, calculates its physical storage capacity, talks to the the firmware/controller of USB drive, and writes zero bytes to every location on the drive.

Low-level formatting is a disk formatting operation process that restores a disk drive to its factory defaults. The low-level formatting process is very slow, because that completely and irreversibly erases all data in a USB storage device, then restores the USB drive to its original state, so as to retrieve the lost capacity and bring them back to normal.

In addition to the low-level formatting function, USB Low-Level Format also offers a number of other useful features: it allows the creation of bootable USB drives for Windows installations, as well as MSDOS, FreeDOS, Unix, Linux, WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment) and WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment); it provides 9 industrial-strength data erase options to securely erase data on USB drives; it supports initializing USB drives of any capacity to popular file systems such as NTFS, FAT32, FAT and exFAT.

Key Features

  • Simple process of disk formatting
  • Restores disk drive to its factory defaults
  • Clears all flags, data, and settings
  • Create a bootable USB drive
  • Supports more than 20 USB drive controller brands
  • 9 industrial-strength data wipe options

Supported USB Drive Controller Brands

  • Intel
  • Samsung
  • Micron
  • Phison
  • SMI
  • Marvell
  • Toshiba
  • Silicon Motion
  • PMC
  • Sierra
  • OCZ
  • JMicron
  • Maxiotek
  • Goke
  • Greenliant
  • Fusion-io
  • Realtek
  • SanDisk
  • Western Digital
  • Hyperstone
  • Novachips
  • VIA
  • FADU
  • ....

Edition Statement

AppNee provides the USB Low-Level Format Pro Edition multilingual full installers and unlocked files, as well as portable full registered versions for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

Download URLs

License Version Download Size
Free Edition Latest n/a
Pro Edition v5.01 1.70 MB
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