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How to format a hard drive partition in Windows 7 - Mark - 24-04-2011

How to format a hard drive partition in Windows 7

On most of my systems I have atleast 2 partitions, one for the operating system, and one for data.
You can now format, create and delete partitions within Windows 7 using Disk Management. This is my new install of Windows 7 Pro, on a 320GB hard drive, 50GB for the OS and 250GB for data.

Warning: Large images, they'll be scaled accordingly.


Steps

1) Start > Right click "Computer" > Manage

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2) On the left hand side, go down to "Disk Management"
Select the disk that you want to format, right click it and select "Format..."

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3) A window will pop up, fill out the information, I always untick "Perform a quick format".

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It'll warn you that formatting will erase all of the data on that volume, click OK.

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4) It'll then start formatting the partition, the bigger in size, the longer it will take.

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5) After about an hour or so, It'll be complete, and will look similar to below.

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6) Here's what it looks like in "My Computer" before it was formatted.

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7) And here's what it looks like in "My Computer" after it was formatted.

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You can then start copying your files back, or start filling it up with new files!



RE: How to format a hard drive partition in Windows 7 - Drumm - 24-04-2011

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda1
:tongue

Also, only untick quick format if you're worried about the data that is on the drive being recovered by FBI :tongue


OT: LG Bluebird? Really? The Pro's use raptors. What kind of fool are you?