Solved How to format my Hard Drive?

[Vishal Hardeo]

I have a 500GB WD Blue Hard Drive doing nothing, so i decided to use it as storage instead to go buy a new Hard Drive, it currently was a boot drive with windows 7 professional on it, so i was wondering how could i completely format it and get rid of everything to use it as my secondary storage?

 

[GokAy]

You can just delete the partition in Disk Management, and create a new one. However, if you face problems you can use Partition Wizard free bootable.

The pagefile.sys on it may fool the current OS. See how it goes.

 

[MightyMiroWD]

Hi there.

I would suggest to simply reformat the hard drive via Disk Management, or you can follow what GokAy suggested and use Disk Management where you can delete both partitions, create New of the size you want, and lastly format.

Here's a KB article with the steps how to format the HDD:

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Hope this helps and cheers!

 

[Vishal Hardeo]

Hi there.

I would suggest to simply reformat the hard drive via Disk Management, or you can follow what GokAy suggested and use Disk Management where you can delete both partitions, create New of the size you want, and lastly format.

Here's a KB article with the steps how to format the HDD:

Support Answers

Hope this helps and cheers!

Thanks alot! it worked