Kingston Format Utility to Windows

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Windows

1.0.3.0

Kingston

0,2 Mb

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Description

The Kingston Format Utility is designed to stabilize, clean, and correctly work on your flash devices, and it is best used for Kingston branded media. If the user flash drive mistakenly protects the drive from recording, or there is a need to format the device, then this utility will quickly cope with the task. Despite the fact that the program interface is presented only in English, it is quite simple, before starting the user should determine the specific drive and file system, then the entire process to optimize the flash drive will take no more than 15 minutes.

Specifications

Date added 12.09.2022

Update Date 15.12.2023

License Freeware

Compatibility Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11

Supported languages English, Russian

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Pros and Cons

Pros

Kingston flash drive recovery tool
Quick identification of VID and PID
Choice of FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, FAT file systems
Ability to fix errors related to the drive reading
Automatic software updates from official developer's web-site
Supports HyperX XXGB/DTHX30 series USB flash drives, Kingston DataTraveler, etc.
Extremely easy-to-use interface
High speed of the utility
Low system requirements

Cons

Support for memory cards from Kingston only (sometimes works on Silicon Power flash drives)
No tools to recover data from a damaged flash drive

More about Kingston Format Utility

Features:

high speed of analyzing and searching for damaged sectors of the drive;
effective recovery of part of "broken" sectors when replacing them with spare ones;
supports a variety of flash drive sizes;
built-in option to switch between drives;
easy to use with the two main menus;
scan results can be emailed for further analysis;
requires no installation at installation and is distributed free of charge;
optimally matches NTFS/FAT32/exFAT file system support;
does not require any system resources of the user's device, suitable for use even on low-powered laptops;
periodic software updates from the official software developer;

Brand-name software Kingston Format Utility is designed to optimize the flash media quickly formats and efficiently corrects even complex failures that occur during operation of the drive.

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