HOW TO FORMAT A DISK PARTITION OF ANY DRIVE


  • DiskPart format command enables you to quick format a disk or partition to NTFS or FAT32 in Windows 10/8/7. The DiskPart free alternative - AOMEI Partition Assistant can format disk partition with CMD and GUI.

Format disk is necessary before using

Format disk is necessary before using. No matter what operating system you are using, it has a certain way to manage disks, and only the formatted disk structure can be recognized. After formatting the disk, you can use it to install OS and store the data. So, when people create a new partition, they always do a format for it.

How to format disk partition with DiskPart?

To format disk partition, you can use the Disk Management tool, or right-click on a drive in Windows Explorer and select the "Format...". If you would rather to use a command line to format the drive, DiskPart would be the first choice, and it does have many advantages. For example, if you would like to reformat a drive which had an operating system on the drive, you can find there are system partitions on the drive which cannot be formatted by Disk Management and cannot be seen in Windows Explorer. But, how to format disk using DiskPart?
Diskpart is an amazing tool which can manage disks by typing the relative syntax. You can format a local drive or an external hard drive for the use of file storage in your Windows OS environment. And here, you can see how to format hard disk using CMD step by step.
Tips:
Format disk partition will erase everything on it. It is necessary to make a full backup before formatting.
1. To use the command line to format a hard drive, you need to open the command prompt first. Here you can click Start, type "cmd", right click it and select "Run as Administrator", or you can press "WIN+X" and select Command Prompt (Admin) to open the command prompt.
2. Type diskpart to open the diskpart command prompt.
3. Type list volume, press Enter, all the volume will be list.
4. Type select volume n, press Enter, the volume you want to format will be selected.
5. Then, type "format fs=ntfs quick label=test" and press Enter.  Then, the DiskPart format quick, like the screen shot shows.
Diskpart Format
Tips: you can change the "test" into any label you like, e.g. "label=Data".
Finally, you can create partition on the formatted partition, or assign a drive letter for it directly. You can type "exit" and press Enter to close the command prompt. Till now, you can see the new formatted drive in My Computer and take use of it.

Other ways to format disk partition

DiskPart should be the best way to format disk partition, and it is widely used in Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10, however, it doesn't support Windows XP. If you are using XP, how do you manage disks with command line? Besides, if you use DiskPart to format partition installed with system files, you may be failed and receive an Windows error code 0x80070057, what would you do?
Fortunately, there are many other ways to instead of DiskPart format disk partition. 

Format disk partition with AOMEI Partition Assistant command line

AOMEI Partition Assistant is a great tool that can help you format partition with command line in a quick way. First, you need to open the command prompt by clicking Start->type cmd, right click the program->select Run as Administrator. If you work with Windows 10, press Win+X, select Command Prompt (Admin). Then, you can follow the next content to format a drive with AOMEI Partition Assistant.
1). Type cd C:\Program Files\AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 6.3, pressEnter. The path is your AOMEI Partition Assistant installation directory. Then, type partassist.exe /list, press Enter.
Partassist
2). It will skip to the AOMEI Partition Assistant command Prompt, and list all disks on your computer.
List Disk
3). Typepartassist.exe /list:0, the 0 refers to the disk you want to list volumes on it. Press Enter.
Lst Volume
4). It will show you a new window to list the volumes on the disk 0.
List
5). Type partassist.exe /fmt:E /fs:ntfs /label:Play to format the FAT32 to NTFS. Press Enter.
Format
6). Wait till the task done.
Format Successfully
Notes:
  • "/fmt" followed by partition number or drive letter, and the partition number starts with 0. If the specified value is drive letter, disk number can be ignored.
  • "/fs" means file system, whose value can be fat16, fat32 or ntfs.
  • "/label" means you can add any name of the partition. 

Format disk partition with GUI

The truth is that not every body likes to use command prompt to format disk partition. For those people, format partition with GUI instead of DiskPart format is a greater choice. The AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard provides the easiest UI to format partition in free. With it, you can format disk partition with only few clicks. Here you can do as following steps:
Step1. Free download AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, install and launch it, and you can see the main interface of your disk(s). Select the partition you want to format, right click on it, select "Format Partition" in the pop-up menu.
Format Partition
Step2. Here you can give a partition label and format the partition to what kind of file systems. Click OK.
Format to
Step3. Finally, click Apply at the toolbar to execute all operations.
Apply
You can format every partition on your hard drive. Or you can initialize disk directly. Both of them will delete the data on the hard drive, so if there are some important data stored on your hard drive, please backup them first. You also can create a WinPE bootable usb to format disk partition with AOMEI Partition Assistant. It should be the best way to replace DiskPart format disk partition.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BET9JA shop

Image
EVERY DAY SUBSCRIPTION IN Bet9ja Shop (DATA CONSUMPTION RATE TOO HIGH.  HOW TO STOP IT! You are running a bet9ja-shop and you always have a problem of high data usage….Your 10GB subscription can’t take you for long right? It’s really frustrating, buying airtime on daily bases for subscription. Am going to give you a detail on how to secure your data and minimize the over-usage of data. TODAY YOU WILL STOP SUBSCRIBING ON DAILY BASES! Solution Is In On Your Way Now: In a betshop, cyber café or any firm using internet, this information is very vital for you. You might have asked questions like, WHAT IS CONSUMING MY DATA LIKE THIS?, I SUBSCRIBE 10GB JUST SOME HOURS AGO, WHY IS IT LEFT WITH 300MB? IS IT BECAUSE OF THE BET9AIJA SITE I OPEN ALWAYS? If it’s a Cyber Café, you might ask such question like, WHY IS THIS DATA GOING LOW IN SECONDS, OR IS IT BECAUSE I USED MTN, GLO, AIRTEL or ETISALAT (9MOBILE). Well the answer is NO? So why am I always subsc
Read more

operating system pdf

Image
 OPERATING SYSTEM  In this article we are going to base our discussion on Operating system (software). You can also download this article in a PDF format click download The computer Technology is made up of (i) Hardware and (ii) software. The software is a system containing various types of instruction codes that works together, it instructs the hardware to perform specific task. The software gives the hardware the ability to perform various type of function which makes the hardware independent. TYPES OF SOFTWARE (i)                            Application Software (ii)                         System Software      Application Software 1.       Application Software: is the software, the user uses to enable the computer perform its function. Its designed only for end users, those software are known as applications or program, a good example of application software are: CorelDraw, MS-Office , Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Windows Media Player, VLC, SMADAV, Xender,
Read more

Uses of Microsoft Office

Image
MS-OFFICE/PACKAGE MICROSOFT PACKAGE MS-package known as Microsoft Package are computer software or program that was developed by MICROSOFT COPERATION. It was presented and published by Bill Gates on 1st August 1988 , at COMDEX in Las Vegas.  This MS-Package was developed to work for almost all the Operating system including, MS-Windows Operating system, Macos, Android and iOS etc. The Microsoft packages has suite of products which are:     1.       Microsoft Word: It’s a graphical word processing program that users can type with. Its main purpose is to give users access to key-in or type text (.txt), documents (.doc) just as other word processing program. But the only different with Microsoft Word and other word processing program is that, it comes with many features and tools that can be very useful to the user and it’s also a user friendly program.     2.     Microsoft Excel:   It’s a spreadsheet program that has to do with calculation. I
Read more

Top Best Driver tools for Windows

Image
Top Best Driver Updating Tools for Windows By  samuel kanu - November 2, 2017 Top Best Driver tools for Windows For the efficient working of your PC’s hardware computer, you must ensure that your Windows Drivers are updated to their latest versions. Here, we introduce you the best ten driver update tools for windows. So have a look on complete guide discussed below to proceed. F or the efficient working of your PC’s hardware computer, you must ensure that your Windows Drivers are updated to their latest versions. You can visit manufacturer’s website to download latest versions if you have any problem. You have to keep the latest releases and also find it and download it from the official site. Top Best Driver Updating tools for Windows Below are the best handy tools that user can use to update the drivers for your Windows operating system. #1  Driver Booster Driver Booster Driver Booster is one of the best free driver update tool tha
Read more

HOW TO MAKE COMPUTER WELCOME YOU WITH SPEACH USING NOTEPAD

Image
Do you watch movies? Have you always loved the way how Computers in movies welcome their users by calling out their names? I bet that you too would want to know how you can achieve similar results on your PC and have a computer said welcome.  Then you are at the right place, this article describes exactly how you can make your computer welcome you like this. With this trick, you can make your Computer welcome you in its computerized voice. You can make your Windows based computer say "Welcome to your PC, Username." Make Windows Greet you with a Custom Voice Message at Startup To use this trick, follow the instructions given below:- Click on  Start . Navigate to All Programs, Accessories and  Notepad . Copy and paste the exact code given below. Dim speaks, speech speaks="Welcome to your PC,  Username " Set speech=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") speech.Speak speaks      3.  Replace  Username  with your own  name .      4.  Click on File Menu,
Read more

How to Format a Computer with Windows 7

Image
To format your hard disk during Windows 7 installation, you'll need to start, or boot, your computer using the Windows 7 installation disc or USB flash drive. Turn on your computer so that Windows starts normally, insert the Windows 7 installation disc or USB flash drive, and then shut down your computer. Restart your computer. Some System will prompt you to press F9 or F10 for boot option, press and select USB or CD ROM Drive as your boot option. Press any key when prompted, and then follow the instructions that appear. On the "Install Windows" page, enter your language and other preferences, and then click Next. If the "Install Windows" page doesn't appear, and you're not asked to press any key, you might need to change some system settings. To learn how to do this, see Start your computer from a Windows 7 installation disc or USB flash drive. On the "Please read the license terms" page, if you accept the license terms,
Read more

HOW TO CREATE A BOOTABLE USB DRIVES FOR ANY OPERATING SYSTEM

Image
With the advent of ultra portable laptops, optical drives are becoming a thing of the past. Although not having optical drives allows manufacturers to make lighter devices, it causes problems to users when they want to  fresh install  operating systems, as most of them are still available in the form of CDs, DVDs and downloadable ISOs. For users of these devices, the only option then remains is to use a flash drive to install the operating system of their choice. Not surprisingly, there are also a few of us who prefer installing operating systems from flash drives for its faster speed. There are also a few of us who prefer to keep live operating systems on our flash drives to access computers without having an OS by simply plugging in our devices. With such a lot of users needing to create bootable USB flash drives, it appears imperative that OS manufacturers provide an inbuilt way to create them with each DVD and CD they provide. However, that is not the case with
Read more