

Usually, you will think about internal utility, Disk Management in Windows 7 or 10, to do this job. No matter what motivation you have, the question, how to reformat a hard drive, is much more important now.

To save important data on the hard drive, please backup disk beforehand. However, you need to reformat external hard drive or internal SSD/HDD if it was partitioned before. What you need to do first is wiping hard drive. But there is no spare hard drive at hand, then you could take full advantage of the current hard drive as well as the external hard drive. You may be interested in one new OS, and want to try it. Hence, reformatting your hard drive is a must-do event.Īnother situation, maybe you just want to clean the hard drive for a fresh Windows installation. Even though you delete all the personal and sensitive data, you still unsure if it is completely cleaned. For example, you may want to sell your PC to others.

Many users would like to format hard drive for a secondary use, and the situations varies from one to the other.
