Note: Using Quick flag is optional but if you don’t want formatting to take time, then including the flag is recommended. This command will format the partition via the Microsoft NTFS file system and set a drive label. You can replace Data for the name of the drive that appears while using File Explorer. Type : format FS=NTFS label=Data quick & press Enter. This will make the selected partition active. To choose a new primary partition, type the below-mentioned command: Use the below-mentioned command to create a new partition on drive: As you have formatted your drive, let’s proceed now to create a new partition. Note: Don’t forget to look for the asterisk (*) sign beside the selected drive. Now to confirm the drive that you have selected to wipe out is correct, type this command:.To wipe or format your drive, follow these steps:.Use the disk number which you want to erase as if you don’t select the drive name correctly, you might end up deleting the wrong partition.

To select the drive that you want to clean, type the below command:.Type below given command to list all drives connected to your computer.Type the below command to get DiskPartĪlternatively, you can go to Start and type Diskpart and press Enter, this will also launch DiskPart. Now Command Prompt will launch with admin rights.

Go to Start and type Command Prompt in the search box.Its faster to just erase/invalidate the partition, create a new partition, and MAYBE verify sectors instead of doing a real format and then verifying. I prefer the 35 pass called Gutmann method. The only way to truly erase a disk is to have it do a 0 write pass. I would hope that this utility, DiskPart, issuing its 'clean' command actually does more than clear the data partition info. It's possible to recover the data with a little work, primarily on the 'folders.'

Format just basically wipes the file data/directory/folder content, not the data elsewhere on the drive. While I cannot guarantee this article does exactly what it claims it does (I haven't tried it, let alone heard about this way before) I can speak for the way format works now days.ĭrives come pretty much preformatted now days as to its sectors and such. 21240634 said:Am I missing something? Couldn't you just bring up a command prompt and type 'format e:' - or some other drive letter?

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