The External Hard Drives are used to back up important data like documents, photos, and videos and give you more storage space to keep your data. When you store data on an external hard drive, you can only access it when the hard drive is plugged into your computer. Before you use an external hard drive on your computer, you need to format drive windows 10. To do so on your Windows 10 computer, just perform the below instructions carefully.
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- Make sure to connect the external drive to your Windows 10 computer.
- Select the Start menu on your computer.
- Type Run into the search bar at the bottom of the window.
- Now, type compmgmt.msc into the respective field and hit the Enter key on the keyboard.
- Here, you will see the Computer Management window on the screen.
- Select Disk Management below the Storage section.
- Next, right-click on your external hard drive and click on the Initialize Disk option from the list.
- Now, choose the partition style and click the OK button.
- After initializing the disk, the partition status will be Unallocated. Right-click on the Unallocated partition and choose the New Simple Volume option from the drop-down list.
- Perform the on-screen instructions and click Next.
- Here, choose the partition size and click the Next button.
- Select the drive letter from the drop-down list and click Next.
- Next, go to the Format this volume with the following settings section and set the File system and Volume label from the drop-down lists.
- Click the Next button to proceed.
- Ensure that the selected options are correct and click on the Finish button.
- Now, wait for some time to complete the format disc process of your external hard drive.
FORMATTING EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE USING FILE EXPLORER
- First, ensure to connect the external hard drive to your Windows 10 computer.
- Launch the File Explorer window.
- Navigate to your external hard drive and right-click on it.
- Now, select the Format option from the drop-down list.
- The Format window will appear on the screen.
- Here, click the File system field and choose the option you want to use.
- Make a tick mark in the Quick Format checkbox under the “Format options” section and click the Start button.
- Next, click the OK button to confirm the formatting process.
- Wait for some time to finish formatting the external hard drive on your computer.
You can now format hard drive windows 10 computer by following the above procedures. In case you require further clarifications, contact our technical experts using the call option on this page.
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