Formate Drive with Diskpart

How to format drive with Diskpart?

To format drive, you can use the Disk Management tool, or right-click on a drive in Windows Explorer and select the “Format...”. If you would rather 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 drive with Diskpart?

Diskpart is an amazing tool which can manage disks by typing the relative syntax. You can use the CMD to create partition, delete partition, initialize partition, etc, and you can format a local drive or an external hard drive for the use of file storage in your Windows OS environment.

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To use the command line to format a 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+R” to open the Run window, then, type “cmd” and press Enter to open the prompt.

Type diskpart to open the diskpart command prompt.

Type list volume, press Enter, all the volume will be list.

Type select volume n, press Enter, the volume you want to format will be selected.

Then,type "format fs=ntfs quick label=test" and press Enter. It will format the partition quick. Like the screen shot shows.

Tips: you can change the “test” into any labels you like in “label=test”.

Finally, 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.