PC Instructions
- Select the drive you wish to format from the list.
- Right click on the drive and select Format.
- Enter a name for the drive in Volume label and select the format type in the File system dropdown box.
- Click OK. It will take a short while to delete all the files and change the format of the disk.
How do you Format a hard drive in Windows 10?
How to Format a Hard Drive for Windows 10
- Connect your external hard drive to a Windows computer. ...
- Right-click on the external hard drive and click Format.
- Choose a format under File System. ...
- Check the Quick Format box, and click Start. ...
- Click OK when the Format Complete pop-up screen appears.
Is it safe to Format a hard drive?
Formatting a hard drive can improve your computer performance through deleting harmful programs during the process. You cannot always notice computer virus and other malicious software, but they might roam the system hard disk and damage some important files.
