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how to format a hard drive Whenever you format a hard drive, the data will be deleted, since part of the process

How to Format a Hard Drive

To use a new drive it should be formatted for safe and secure purposes, in this guide we will show you how to format your new drive on windows 10.

If you buy a new hard disk for your windows 10 it should be formatted before transferring the files into it. Because to check it is working correctly, clean to use, free of viruses and malware, etc which will cause your windows 10 to corrupt and may harm your personal files or data.

If the new hard disk was connected to the other operating system before you connect to your OS, it may cause issues or driver problems, and compatibility issues.

Disk management is one of the best methods to format the hard drive for most users of Windows 10.

We will show you how to use disk management to format and partition the hard drive or solid-state drive.

1. HOW TO FORMAT AND CREATE A NEW PARTITION
2. HOW TO FORMAT AN EXISTING PARTION

HOW TO FORMAT AND CREATE A NEW PARTITION

If you have a hard drive that is not format before, you will need to make a new partition before you clean it. Use disk management to see if the hard drive is divided, if it is not then it will show as unallocated space which is not in use.

1. click on the start.
2. Type Disk Management on the search bar.
3.  Click on the top result.
4. Right click on the unknown hard drive.

• Click Initialize Disk.

• Select the one of the partition types:
• MBR (Master Boot Record): select this style for the hard drives which is having below 2TB.
• GPT (GUID PARTITION TABLE): select this style for the hard drives which is having greater than 2TB.
• Click OK.
• Right click on the unallocated space.
• Click on the New Simple Value.
• Click Next.
• Click Next again.
• Choose the Assign the following drive letter.
• Choose Next.
• For windows 10 users, select NTFS option.

• Choose Allocation unit size as Default.
• Name the drive in the Volume label.
• Check the Perform a quick format.

• Select Next.
• Click finish.

Once you have done these steps, your new hard drive is partitioned, formatted and it is ready to use.

HOW TO FORMAT AN EXISTING PARTITION

If your new hard drive is already initialized and partitioned then, you can simply use the following steps to format the existing hard drive:

• Click on the Start.
• Type Disk management on the search bar.

• Click on the top result to open.
• Right click on the hard drive you want to format.
• Click on the format option.
• Name the drive in the Volume label.
• For windows 10 users, select NTFS option.
• Choose allocation unit size as Default.

• Select the Perform a quick format.
• Click on the OK.
• Again, click the OK button to confirm.

After you complete these steps, your new hard drive is formatted and ready to store the data.