Entera, Michael Angelo E. BSIT-1
I. Introduction
How to Format a Hard Drive in any kinds of Windows, Follow these
easy steps. To format a hard drive means to erase any information on
the drive and to set up a file system on the operating system that can
read data from, and write data to, the drive.
As complicated as that might sound, it's not really difficult to format a
hard drive in any version of Windows. All operating systems offer this
capability and Windows makes it easy.
If the hard drive that wants to format has never been used or was just
wiped clean, it must first be partitioned. To partition a hard drive in
Windows means to section off a part of it and make that part available
to the operating system. Most of the time, the part of the hard drive is
the entire usable space, but creating multiple partitions on a hard
drive is also possible so that you can store backup files in one
partition.
Partitioning a hard drive in Windows isn't hard and usually only takes a
few minutes to do. Once partitioned, it’s the time to format a hard
drive.
