Format a disk for use with Windows using the DISKPART command.
Syntax
DISKPART FORMAT [[FS=FS] [REVISION=X.XX] | RECOMMENDED] [LABEL="label"] [UNIT=N]
[QUICK] [COMPRESS] [OVERRIDE] [DUPLICATE] [NOWAIT] [noerr]
Key
volume A volume must be selected for this operation to succeed.
FS=FS The type of the file system (FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, UDF, ReFS).
REVISION=X.XX Specifies the file system revision (if applicable).
RECOMMENDED If specified, use the recommended file system and revision
instead of the default if a recommendation exists. The
recommended file system (if one exists) is displayed by the
FILESYSTEMS command.
LABEL="label" Specify the volume label.
UNIT=N Overrides the default allocation unit size. Default settings
are strongly recommended for general use. The default
allocation unit size for a particular file system is displayed
by the FILESYSTEMS command.
NTFS compression is not supported for allocation unit sizes above 4096.
QUICK Perform a quick format.
COMPRESS Files created on the new volume will be compressed by default. NTFS only.
OVERRIDE Force the file system to dismount first if necessary. All opened handles
to the volume would no longer be valid.
DUPLICATE UDF Only: This flag applies to UDF format, version 2.5 or higher.
This flag instructs the format operation to duplicate the file
system meta-data to a second set of sectors on the disk. The
duplicate meta-data is used by applications, for example repair
or recovery applications. If the primary meta-data sectors are
found to be corrupted, the file system meta-data will be read
from the duplicate sectors.
NOWAIT Forces the command to return immediately while the format
process is still in progress. If NOWAIT is not specified,
DiskPart will display format progress in percentage.
NOERR For scripting only. When an error is encountered, DiskPart
continues to process commands as if the error did not occur.
Without the NOERR parameter, an error causes DiskPart to exit
with an error code.
Example
FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="SS64 Volume" QUICK COMPRESS
FORMAT RECOMMENDED OVERRIDE
"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do" ~ Albert Gray.
Related:
FORMAT - Format a disk.
DISKPART - Disk Administration.
Equivalent bash command (Linux): mkfs, in FreeBSD & OSX: newfs, fsck_exfat