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How to Format a Hard Drive on Windows 8

Generally speaking, we format a hard drive to promote its performance when we are going to reinstall our Windows 8 system, or there are too many junk files on hard disk or there is a bad way. Now here this article aims at sharing how to format a hard drive on Windows 8 with you by introducing 3 optional means altogether.

Warn:

Means 1: Format Hard Drive on Windows 8 from My Computer

1. Double click on Computer icon to open My Computer. Locate the partition you want to get it formatted. For example, partition E:

Locate the partition

2. Right click on the partition you gonna to format and select Format item.

Select Format item

3. In the following popped-up formatting parameters settings dialogue box, you can personalize the parameters (recommend to check quick format to shorten the time it takes), and then click Start button to start formatting.

Select quick format

4. Click OK button to confirm formatting.

Confirm to format

5. Soon, you will be prompted Format Complete. You click OK.

format completed

6. Back to partition E: and you will found it is formatted and emptied.

formatted and emptied partition

Means 2: Format a Hard Drive on Windows 8 from Computer Management.

1. Right click on Computer icon and select Manage item.

Open computer management

2. Click Disk Management in the opened Computer Management window.

Disk Management

3. Right click on the disk you gonna format and select Format item.

Select format item

4. Personalize the formatting parameters accordingly to your own requirement or you can keep them all by default. Then click OK button to start formatting.

perform a quick format

5. Click OK button to confirm and go on formatting.

confirm formatting

6. After the formatting finished, you can go back to My Computer and found the E: has been formatted and emptied.

Means 3: Format a Hard Disk on Windows 8 with Command

1. Press Windows + R keys simultaneously to open Run box, type “cmd” in it and press Enter key to run it.

Run CMD

2. In Command Prompt window, type in the command: format E: and press Enter key. Replace E: with your target partition to be formatted.
Type in the volume label of the target partition and press Enter.
Type in Y to confirm formatting when you get a WARNING prompt.

Type in command

3. It will start formatting and soon after you can see the prompt that Format complete.

Format complete prompt

4. You open My Computer, locate partition E: and will found it is formatted and emptied.

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