Cleaning a Disk in Diskpart

❗ Note that cleaning the disk will remove any data stored on it.

Open Command Prompt or PowerShell as admin then follow the steps below.

diskpart
list disk

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Make note of the disk you want to clean from the step above.

sel disk #
clean
create partition=primary
format quick fs=ntfs
assign letter=E

You can change the file type to a different one if so chooses, FAT32 or exFAT are examples. You can also change the letter to any letter that is not in use.