You have a problem if you receive a message, You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it on your Windows 11/10 PC, while using the external hard drive, USB, Memory or SD Card, as you ...

Alternatively, if you want to be oldschool about it in the future, a nice Windows 98 boot disk (bootdisks.com is a good non-Microsoft source) and fdisk/format are your friends.