Windows 10: Easy Guide: How to Format an External Hard Disk in Windows 10

Discus and support Easy Guide: How to Format an External Hard Disk in Windows 10 in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; In this article, we show you how to format a new external drive that you can use to backup purposes or store files. You can also check out the... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Andre Da Costa, Oct 14, 2019.

  1. ANDRE DA COSTA
    Andre Da Costa Win User

    Easy Guide: How to Format an External Hard Disk in Windows 10


    In this article, we show you how to format a new external drive that you can use to backup purposes or store files.


    You can also check out the following articles additional tasks you can prepare your external drive:


    Partition a Hard Drive for macOS Time Machine and Windows 10 Backups


    Easy Guides are intended to make it easy for users to follow instructions regarding basic tasks in Windows 10. Guides are a single info-graphic that you can follow from beginning to end.


    Press Windows key + R

    Type: diskmgmt.msc

    Hit Enter



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    Andre Da Costa Win User

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  3. HRITIK KANDARI
    Hritik Kandari Win User
    Format Hard disk

    I have an external hard drive . When i plug it into pc pc becomes slow , so I want to format it , but it is not possible in GUI mode .

    Can I format it while booting??

    Pls provide process steps too???

    [Original Title: external Hard disk]
     
    Hritik Kandari, Oct 14, 2019
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  4. FREDERIK LONG
    Frederik Long Win User

    Easy Guide: How to Format an External Hard Disk in Windows 10

    Formatting External hard drive.

    1. Launch the Disk Manager with diskmgmt.msc
    2. Use right-clicks to delete all partitions on the external disk
    3. Create one or several new partitions
    4. Format them
     
    Frederik Long, Oct 14, 2019
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