Your PC might develop issues that demands you format your laptop, some of the issues include dragging mouse pad, virus in hard drive or you may want to move to another windows operating system entirely.
In this post, I'm going to show you with picture details of how to format your hard drive in case the need arises.
You can format your hard drive with a CD, if your PC comes with a CD rom or with a bootable windows flash.
whichever one you will be using, they both follow the same procedures, though formating with a bootable windows flash is more faster than formatting with windows CD.
PC setup and boot menu
In other for you to format your hard drive, you must know how to enter the boot menu and system setup.
Different PC manufacturers have their own set up and boot menu keys
For HP
Setup === f10
Boot menu ===f9
Other PC (Toshiba, Accer,Dell etc)
Note that Accer, packardbell, gateway ,emachine are same company
Setup === f2
Boot menu=== f12
Some require you hold down the Fn key
Fn f2
Fn 12
System are Samsung, Sony etc
Also read
Configuring your PC to see bootable flash
Your PC might not see the bootable flash, in other to make it appear in boot menu, restart the system and boot into set up,make sure your system doesn't have a motherboard password else you won't be able to access setup..
Navigate to system configuration and enable legacy,click f10 to save then move to boot menu, locate USB hdd and use f5/f6 to move up or down.
(You might have a problem saving the above setup if your CMOS battery is bad)
Move the USB hdd to the top and save,also make sure your PC is connected to power source to avoid power interuption.
How to format with windows OS
If you're going to format with windows CD, switch on your PC ,insert the disc and shutdown and if you're formatting with a bootable windows flash, all you have to do is shutdown the system and insert the flash .
After this, power on the system and keep pressing the boot menu key, click on the CD drive if you're formatting with a CD and USB hdd for bootable flash.
Wait for it to finish loading, the windows logo will come up and it will take you to list of windows operating system.
note that x86 stand for 32 bits while x64 stand for 64 bits,click on your choice of windows you want to install.
This will take you to another page, where you have to tick the agreement box and continue with OK .
Another page will come up, select CUSTOM>>it will take you to another page, to format click on >>DRIVE OPTION ,the delete button will appear
below it, then select a partition and click the delete button below, do this till you delete all the partition and left with the hard drive size.
Move your cursor to NEXT and click enter.
Formatting will start counting.
You have to be patience while doing this as it will take a lot of time, after counting to 100% ,your PC will restart and the second stage will start loading.
When the second stage finish loading, in put your details and follow the instructions well.
That's all.
Formatting your system is not hard, you can easily do it at the comfort of your house or office,all you have to do is follow the instructions in this article.
My next post will be on how to do a bootable windows flash.
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