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Fortunately most Chromebooks come with an SD card reader and they can also read USB drivers. But some people need to format their SD cards or USB Drives and they might not know how to do it or if it’s even possible on Chrome OS. I have good news for you: you can format both SD cards and USB Drives and it’s really easy to do it. As you might have noticed by now, everything is really simple on Chrome OS and formatting a drive requires only a few clicks. ## How to Format a SD Card or USB Drive on Your Chromebook First of all make sure that your USB Drive or SD Card is plugged into your Chrome OS device and then open File Manager. You will find Fie Manager in the app launcher, being a built-in app. Now look at the left sidebar for your USB Drive or SD Card.
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Open the Chrome App (from a Chrome system tray, or by installing then clicking 'Launch' at the link above). Select the small gear 'Options' menu in the top-right and choose 'Erase recovery media'. Insert the USB stick you want to erase and BE SURE it is the right one, since the whole disk will be erased. Other than the conventionally popular Windows and Mac OS, (and, among developers and geeks, Linux), one of the most popular operating systems for But ofcourse, you can use Chrome OS just as well on your own Laptop, if you so wish to, because, Chrome OS is actually based on - Chromium.
You should find it easily unless you have many plugged into your device. Right click your drive and choose.Format device., then click.Ok.
Chrome OS will now format your device and it should take you just a few seconds to perform the action. A notification will appear in the bottom right side of your screen once the formatting finishes. You should know that Chrome OS formats drives as FAT32, so if you need another file system then you will have to use another device to format them. Though you shouldn’t worry about FAT32 unless you’re formatting a large external USB HDD, because this file system can cause fragmentation.
If you’re just formatting SD Cards or USB Drives, then you should be fine with it.