Professional hard disk formatting

There are cases when problems with the hard disk can be solved only by removing information from the hard drive, and you need a complete formatting of the disk, and not some part of it. If you have such a situation, then you will need to familiarize yourself with the various options for cleaning hard.

Let's start with the simplest and most common way to delete information using Windows tools.

Select any part of your hard drive, and click the right mouse button. As a result, you will see the following Popup menu, in which you need to select the "Format" option.

After that a special window will appear. You do not need to change anything there.

If you want to perform a quick data deletion, check the box next to "fast". If you need to format the hard disk, which constantly slows down, buggy and hangs, then you will want to do a full formatting of the disk, removing the tick from "fast". Of course, this method is rather long (the time of the process depends on the volume of the partition), but it formats at the physical level and completely clears it. If you choose a quick option, then simply clears the information on the files on the hard in a special system hidden file table. But they themselves remain. That is, you can later restore the files using special data recovery programs. But if in their place to write a file, then the old one will be lost without the possibility of restoration.

It should be noted that if you constantly do a complete, that is, a thorough erasure of data on a healthy hard drive, then it can be quickly spoiled.

But, if you suddenly decide to press "hard drive formatting", which is a system one, then you will get an error saying that "You can not format this volume". This is due to the fact that you are currently working in the operating system that is located on this section. And this means that you can not format the partition, which is a system partition.

To delete data from the system volume, as one of the options, you can use another computer. You need to connect your hard drive to it, and then boot from the main hard drive and format your partition as described above. Then there will be no more prohibitions.

You can also make the disk formatting through the command line. To do this, open it. Click on the keyboard "windows" + R. You will see the "Run" box. You can also start it using the Start menu. The path will be as follows: Start »all programs» standard »execute.

There enter "cmd". Then the command line will appear.

To format the hard disk, type "format d". After that you will be given a message, format it or not, and you will be informed that as a result of this all data will be deleted.

More information about the parameters of this command can be found in the help by typing "format /?" In the command line.

Do not think that the formatting of the hard drive can be done using only the tools of the Windows operating system. For this, there are a huge number of programs that can be downloaded on the Internet.

For example, you can use the program "Acronis Disk Director", which allows you to perform hard disk formatting. But among other things, it has a huge number of functions for working with hard drives.

This program has two modes. Automatic and manual. In the manual mode, you will have many more functions than in the automatic mode. The latter should be used by people who have little knowledge of computers and everything connected with it.

Use any method that you like the most. The easiest way is to use standard operating system tools. But if you can not figure out what's what for, safely go to a specialist.