How to Erase and Format a Drive in Windows

Did you get a new external drive? Or are you looking to troubleshoot or sell an older drive? Then, it’s a good idea to erase and format it. Watch on how to do that in Microsoft Windows 10 and 11.



Link:
Disk Wipe – https://www.diskwipe.org/



What you will learn:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Erase and Format a Drive in Windows Using Format Utility
1:04 Erase and Format a Drive in Windows Using Disk Management
1:42 Erase and Format a Drive in Windows Using Command Prompt
2:49 Securely Erase and Format a Drive in Windows Using Disk Wipe
3:47 End screen




What you will learn:
1. Erase and Format a Drive in Windows Using Format Utility
a. The most convenient way to erase and format external drives in Windows
b. How to Replace the default name
c. How to erase and format the drive quickly
2. Erase and Format a Drive in Windows Using Disk Management
a. How to open Disk Management using run box
b. How to Add a volume label, pick a file system, and specify the allocation unit size
c. How to perform a full format
3. Erase and Format a Drive in Windows Using Command Prompt
a. The best option if you want to format drives that exceed 32GB natively in FAT32
b. How to load the DiskPart command-line tool
c. How to load a list of drives on your computer
d. How to erase all data on the drive
e. How to create partition primary
f. How to assign a drive letter for the drive
4. Securely Erase and Format a Drive in Windows Using Disk Wipe
a. How to erase an external drive securely
b. How to run various erasing patterns to prevent file recovery tools from retrieving your data
c. How to overwrite the storage device’s contents with a One Pass Zeros
d. How to overwrite the storage device’s contents with a One Pass Random
e. How to overwrite the storage device’s contents with a Russian GHOST P50739-95
f. How to overwrite the storage device’s contents with a British HMG IS5
g. How to overwrite the storage device’s contents with a US Department of Defense DoD 5220.22-M(E)
h. How to overwrite the storage device’s contents with a US Department of Defense DoD 5220.22-M(ECE)
i. How to overwrite the storage device’s contents with a Peter Guttman
























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