How to Format Hard Drive Using PowerShell?
1. To open Powershell as admin in Windows 10, press the Windows key + X together and then select “ Windows PowerShell (Admin)“.
2. Type the following command to find the hard drive you want to format.
Get-Disk
3. To clear all partitions and volumes from your disk, type the following command. Replace 1 with the disk number of the drive you want to format.
Clear-Disk -Number 1 -RemoveData
4. Next, create a new partition on your blank disk, and assign a drive letter:
New-Partition -DiskNumber 1 -UseMaximumSize -IsActive -DriveLetter E
5. To format the newly-created partition with the NTFS file system, type the following command and press Enter. Replace ‘USB’ with the volume label you want to use.
Format-Volume -DriveLetter E -FileSystem FAT32 -NewFileSystemLabel USB
6. Once you’ve completed the steps, you can now access the new partition in Windows Explorer.
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