Formatting

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I have a question, if you had a usb drive that was say 80% full, do you have to delete everything before you format it or can you just format it without deleting everything on the drive and still maintain it's highest performance.
Thanks.

Don't need any specs or anything.

[CBMatt]

Considering that a format would delete everything anyway, I don't see why it would matter either way.  I often format my iPod Shuffle (I use it as a flash drive) instead of deleting the files manually because formatting tends to be faster.  I've never had any problems happen because of this.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Ok thanks, just wondering coz i did something to my flash drive and there was a file i couldn't delete so i decided to format it because deleting 3gb would take too long

[CBMatt]

Yeah, don't worry, there should be no negative effect on its performance.