Trying to find an answer to how to reformat a hard drive? Well, before I actually tell you that, I would first like to shed some light on the repercussions of such a move. The first thing I would like to tell you is that when you reformat a hard drive what happens is that all the data that might be there on the drive gets erased automatically. You may already be well aware of this, but I am not to be blamed because I am quite sure that there are thousands out there who don’t have a clue. I am just taking the right precautions because I don’t want people chasing me down for the loss of important files and folders that they might have had in their hard drives.

For reformatting secondary partitions on your hard drive, you just have to right click on that particular partition, select the format option and click on ‘start’. However in case you wish to reformat your entire hard drive, then you will require a CD of Windows Operating System or a bootable MS-DOS Floppy or CD. Both of these will force your system to boot from the CD and all you will be required to do is follow the instructions and keep selecting the options that you need. Eventually you will come across the format option, which will prompt you to select between NTFS and FAT file formatting. Since NTFS is the advanced file allocation system, I would recommend that you select NTFS.

What you wish to do with your reformatted hard drive is up to you, but the one thing you can be pretty sure of is that the hard drive will then be completely clean and ready for use. When you finally install Windows, you will notice that your system on the whole, has also become a lot faster and smarter.

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