How to Format a Hard Drive Using Windows Vista

[Nodog438]

Me has 219 disk space

[BestNewMusik]

HELP: my disk management is empty

[fotoniete]

soooooooooooo much THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

[bjarni97]

thank you very much this helped me format my new 2 tb hdd

[SLRMARIOS]

hi...i need hlp pls..i want to make fomrat my pc laptop vista..

I can make format without I have drives ? if yes how ?

[MarioGang100]

I did not even favorite this!

[DRBradleyPhotography]

This was very helpful for my first time buying a hard drive and a separate enclosure and getting it to work and format, etc, etc, etc...at least I think it has been helpful...the drive is now formatting...

[fingerslamjam]

Do i hear an Aussie? :D

[ignited141]

@natkolk Hey mate, uhhhm when i do that it wont deny's it saying the disk is not initialized, what do i do?

[ThePlayaHataz1]

I WANT TO FORMAT MY DRIVE BUT WILL IT DELEATE ABSALUTLY!!!!! EVERYTHING OR WILL IT DELETE FILES BUT KEEP THE FILES THAT YOU NEED TO USE YOUR COMPUTER. LIKE INTERNET EXPLORER, HOW THE COMPUTER USEES INTERNET AND ALL THE STUFF YOU ABSALUTLY!!! need to use computer from drive (C:) PLZ AWNSER PLZZZZZZ VOTE UP IF U HADE SAME QUESTION THX

[TheBloodyToast]

@ThePlayaHataz1 Why do you have a PC if your that retarded. 2 its called INSTALLING WINDOWS DURR HURR

[ThePlayaHataz1]

@TheBloodyToast yo dumb ass, you dont know shit ethier. if u cant read and reflect on a question properly, then dont be calling other people stupid, cuz aparently u dont know how to reflect on anything. so just stfu and go fk ur self

[xcaramel24]

MY DRIVE E HAS NO FREE SPACE BUT WHEN I CLICK ON IT IT HAS NO FILES ON IT WHAT CAN I DO I HAVE VISTA AND DRIVE C HAS HARDLY NO SPACE LEFY LIK 31 GB WHAT CAN I DO

[bob10308]

@xcaramel24

Go format your hardisk and everything will be fine,cheers!

[solpandol78]

my hardrive is super full - i dont know why as i regulary use disk cleanup and have no unecesary files would u recomend i partion my hardrive then format ? if not what should i do?

[mattsicles]

at last a decent simple tutorial that i finished before the end of the video!

[Larsey123IsMe]

How did you get that (F:) ???

[ghandidaniel]

elllaa legend

[BurningGold]

Jesus, Thanks man.

[thelcc2000]

Thanks you saved my USB drive

[bubba1375]

hi my format options doesnt have fat32 but i need to format hdd for ps3 how would i do that thanks

[Daniel1996Gonzalez]

i still dono hou to format the c drive

[Mageassasin]

why cannot format my local disk (C:) ? help please

[gimgom]

@Mageassasin

Think of it this way.

Your using Windows Vista to format your selected drive, and Vista is installed within your local drive (i.e. C:). Now what formatting does is delete all files within that disk, and leaving you with a clean drive. However, if you were to format your local disk the software (Windows Vista) you used to format your drive would no longer be there since it has been removed.

Hope that made sense and answered your question :)

[Janineee13]

Thank chu =)

grtz'Janine

[0strachu]

hey. but i dont have any F or anything like that. only C and D next to it. what now ? ;/

[sukhi2000]

I can't create new simple volume on disk 1.

When i right click on disk 1 there is no text saying new simple volume and my disk 1 doesn't have any memory written on it.

[Samlyn12]

Question....I dnt have disk 2 or disk 1 neither so how can I still reformat my hard drive?I'm using Dell desktop....

[georgiothesk8er]

thanks sooooo much mate fucking epic really great

[Mataleaoexpert]

when i put in my vista disc it loads the windows files and just stays on a screen with a windows back ground. theres no option to reinstall windows. its just a mouse pointer and the vista background. anyone know what going on?

[spookula209]

thanks, this helped out a lot. I did it before but I forgot and I just installed a new hdd in my PC

[111vnderbnder111]

awesome.

[880330145789]

thanks really helpful. so ntfs would be recognized by vista and xp? what about windows 7?

[TheGlucose]

thanks and good shit

[gammer2802]

hey...can you help me...

my computer getting real slow and hang....

do you know how to make it fast and not hang???

[fredox100]

did you try disk defragmenter?

[gammer2802]

everything....

defrag,disk clean up,,,

[Grundalizer]

All I have is C drive. I can't shrink the volume because it says the process failed, even though I have 40GB free. Fucking vista sucks balls. The VistaLite CD I made doesn't boot from CD, it boots to a blank CD, and it gives me no option to "format" disk only to install...and I can't install it on the drive I already have it installed on. I just want to format my single 300 GB drive and reinstall windows clean like when I got it from newegg.

[MrFlorentB]

thanks alot, I was having troubling with an external harddisk being recognized but thanks to you proble solved. keep it up!

[supersexypatou]

Tnx a lot! helped a lot, very constructive and well done! 2 thumbs up for saving me a butload of work :D

[AzR1Ky]

very good...

[LOSTPROPHET333]

How did you get the unlocated disk? i can't create a new volume, because i haven't got some! help!

[fruitcake117]

Ty so much this was very helpfull

[gowlands]

i get so far through a download then a dialog appears saying its timed out or it says internet explorer cannot download (whatever i need)exe from cdn.faster-pcnet.....the connection with server was reset...can you help

[gowlands]

hi i need help...a few weeks back i got a link posted to my facebook account...i clicked on it and yes it gave me a virus...my pc did not respond to anything not a thing so i went back to factory settings..now it wont d-load anything free...i think its my installer i have also lost msn...help?

[sweetbilly]

Absolutely "FANTASTIC", I struggled with this all day until I found this video, thanks m8!! 5 freaking stars!! :)

[TheTexanAtheist]

lol.''congratulations hi tutorial is completed'' =}thanks though.neede to know this for my new hdd i need to install =D

[Seanbbn]

this guy has a pet kangaroooooooooooooooooo

[tpatterson0]

hahahahahahahahahahaha ohhh

[falloist]

sorry man,that didnt help me,i wanted to format my c drive

[123rezax123]

me2

[TotalRandomRequest]

Why does it say "Unable to connect to Virtual disk service" in disk management? why??

[macejae]

can i be able to add a new hard disk to my laptop..or what should i do???i do have little space in my disk but i dont want to delete because its all important for me..my PC is now running slowly because of little space..

please help me!!!im thinking to just use USB.what do u think??

thanks in advance...

[FreakFixtional]

I want to format my C: drive

[gangas159]

when im going to administrative tools it says the folder is empty what the hell i have to do now?

[The100jackass]

good job , can you told me how to fro-met drive c

[photographyiLiKE]

this is the first time i am commenting on youtube, i want to say thanks for the help....

[sulelew]

askexperts stole your video man, lame.

thanks for being original!

[balla32636]

for a brand new hard drive my computer wont see the harddrivce on boot with vista how do I format a brand new harddrive? vista cant see it if i boot to CD it says i need to load a driver but the disc tha came with the HD doesnt have driver

[whistlelock]

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

[i0ink]

hi my hard drive has half reserved for pc and the other half for mac. can i format the pc part without hurting the mac half

[bzqtmg]

Thanks a massive help

[war4life3000]

you used more a 100 gb wow my local disk is only 72 gb

[skatejake1993]

will it delete all of the stuff i have on it i put it all on with a mac?

[RightOnTime1992]

wow super video - but.....

you havent format the main hdd xD

[Shread92]

thanks loads ive been looking 4 ages for a simple video and i found 1 :D i was going to pay for some1 2 do this xD ty

[Red1Bros]

my hadrive is 250 gigs lol it will take forever

[Red1Bros]

i have some files i dont want to remove, is there a way were i dont need to remove them, can i keep them in a file where when i format they dont get removed

[SoraTheDarkKing96]

hahahahah like 5 people have the same video

[natkolk]

what do you mean? Where abouts are these same videos?

[xMrStrongCockx]

I Love You Thank You Very Much Dude

[longwizzle]

when i try to extend a partition with unallocated space...it says the maximum number of secrets has been exceeded...why is this..???

[Lizz350z]

Much Love Man, Thanks A Great Lot For Making This Video

[iggy116]

Thanks for the vid

[666tich88]

nice1 got me out of trouble

[momslovezhenya]

after clicking on disk management, the only partitions available are (C:), (G:), and this empty partition with no title or information (only available GB) and they are all marked as primary partition; am i borderline retarded, or is it my laptop.

i don't know what's the next step to take in order to format my hard drive...

[OTeamGummyBearO]

Nice voice xD

[TheBrownsboroBear]

This was a little helpful... but only a little. I need to know how to just erase almost EVERYTHING but the primary items from like the first start-up. Why? Because i only have ONE F----- GIGABYTE left on my hard drive. This video did, however, help me to get to 1.43gb from 700 mb

[natkolk]

Formatting your hard drive won't get back to your original items. Re-installing windows might, or just un-installing programs..

[happyhippy555]

nice one Dude you just done me a blinder, i was about to chuck the thing out the window. LOL

Thanks a lot... :<)

[raynerz31]

can u help me i dont get the disk 1 or 2

[HeSaveDave]

this really saved me. just to add, you may have to click on the disk you are trying to format and click initialize first.

[bashkimajdari]

thank you very much man you are exellent...5* ;)

[gangas159]

on my loptop it says the folder is ampty why is it ampty?

[enReviews]

my Recovery (where i have/ do all my back ups) is full, should i format it? anyone?

[KiLlrulEr118]

not unless you have your backups in an external source

[enReviews]

okay thanks!

[tazerfire]

you can format c though cmd, i need to do this so i can get rid of shit vista and install xp

[cougarsmits]

hahaha that worked for me thats a lot i had a 600 gb hard drive not being able to get picked up by vista now it is thanks.

[SimpleIdeaTV]

i only have C and D what should i press

[Marzyxx]

I love you = ) Thanks

[iTortureYou]

i only have c and d on mine, what should i do?

[TechGuru1010]

Great tutorial! Thank you so much for uploading this video! =D

One quick question: does the NTFS formatting system support Linux Ubuntu? I was just wondering if I could run a Linux OS on the newly created partition.

[natkolk]

I am not totally sure. Sorry.

[92rs25th]

i know for a fact Ubuntu supports NTFS

[TechGuru1010]

Really?

[TechGuru1010]

So, if I were to dual boot Vista and Ubuntu using the GRUB method, Ubuntu would recognize the smaller partition I made and install it to that particular partition?

[92rs25th]

now i dont know about vista.

[firelion1]

thanks this helped alot

[deathisgain]

Thanks a ton!

[k11zx0]

lol. only my C drive shows up?

[recklessactn]

Good work! Saved me from RMA-ing my drive, my drive was not "initialized"

[nakillzone]

Thanks a lot man.

I am now able to use my second HDD.

[shellaire]

This is awesome, but how do you format the hard drive with no OS on it?

[STELIOS155]

NICE ONE GOOD JOB BUT THIS WORKS 100%?

[irontera86]

hello.i have a vista XP and i was watching your video..on disk O: i only have #c and #F and cd rom 2..here goes the question. i dont have any allocated space? I dont have any unallocated space that i can use my external hard drive to? do i need to make more partions???

[kewlguynick]

Thank you!

[rhainey17]

it also work on XP

[pattyb23]

Thank you so much for this.  I just got a new hard drive and couldn't figure out how to make my computer see it until I watched your video! THANKS

[mrslowrawsquad]

HEY man ..is it the same thing with a lap top...=)

[G3nn2]

very nice indeed, thanks

[salamagogo]

thanks...I have two 80 gig hard drives on my PC...one had nothing stored on it...I recently installed vista,and my computer wasnt recognizing the empty hard drive...thanks again for this tutorial!....saved me alotta headache...

[CheatEnginer]

Umm... can u tell me what do i need to do on BIOS setup pls?

[natkolk]

Go to my website (link in the description) and then go to my forum and post your question there. I will answer it then.

[natkolk]

Sorry, that was a bit too much to ask. I am just a bit disheartened about my forum getting no hits.

Anyway go to the Bios Setup, by pressing Delete of F10 on your keyboard. It may very depending on the motherboard of your computer.

Then try and find something called booting, inside that their should be something about which is the highest boot priority. Change primary boot device to CD Drive. See how that goes.

[nahnah21]

Can anyone help me with this please?

I currently have vista 64 premium installed on my current Hard Drive. I am buying a velociraptor Hard Drive tomorrow - Which will be replacing the old one.

Must i format the old drive and remove vista or can i just install vista from the cd on my new Hard drive?

[natkolk]

You can install Vista on the new hard drive. That should be fine.

[RyConDesign]

Thank you very much, this was helpful

[AssasinsWeed123]

how do i change it into factory settings?????????

[melih96melih]

hey how can i format my C driveee???? I only have one drive and its 500 gb. I want to format that so my pc can start off like brand neww.

[natkolk]

You need the Vista CD. You need to boot off this and then format the hard drive and install Vista again. Remember to save everything first.

[marimas616]

what should i do if i want to format all the drives in my computer?... i want to fix it, i think it has a virus.

Will this procedure work if i do it for all disk (except c and f)?

[natkolk]

If you want to format everything then it should be fine. But you can't format C: and if the virus is on C: then you will need to reinstall windows as well as formatting it.

[zaporojez1]

Very nice, thanks for help, i had a problem with second additional hard drive, and it's was invicible in explorer, but with with video I solved my problem, and now it's visible, thanks alote, editor..

[nathstanathsta]

i need to delete everything or nearly everything on my pc. i have vista basic. how can i do this? i did a re install of vista and its just taken up my whole c drive nearly.

[natkolk]

If it is just one hard drive then you need to bootup your computer on the CD and when the option comes up to format the entire Drive. Say Yes. And it will warn you that you will loose everything. As long as you are ok with that.

[CheatEnginer]

Help me i cant open Vista from the CD i inserted Windows Vista Home Premium disk on computer and restart ut it wont regonize it. I always have to go to a Hard Drive and then go to the disk and then i cant format any hard drives.

[natkolk]

Have you set on the bios for it to boot from CD. Try that. See what happens.

[jackowns]

You're a life saver, thanks a lot man.

[tguellich]

Thank you so much, this saved the day!

[GOldsteiN]

Thanks!

[Killa4life509]

awesome vid,Thanks man

[Virility]

I love how user "Askpcexperts" totally copied this video from you and just changed the sound.

Brutal on their part. Good vid by you :D

Can you possibly explain why trying to use the "Format" option by right-clicking a drive in the "My Computer" window will always give a "drive is in use" warning when the way you describe doesn't?

Even when trying the other method on a brand new drive, it will still say drive is in use, even though the OS is on another drive. Not sure why it's different.

[natkolk]

Thanks for that. It is really annoying that people copy your hard work and claim it as their own. Anyway I contacted them and asked for a link back to my Computer Hardware Explained site:

So we will see what they do. 

I have never heard of that problem you listed. Very very interesting. If I find anything I will let you know. All the best. Cheers.

[mikereevy]

Thanks, mate! You saved the day!

[sanandreas940]

will i have to reinstall vista if i do this

[ivanyoulube]

lol yes

format will delete everything

[natkolk]

Not necessarily. You only need to re-install Windows if you format your C Drive. If you just format a second hard drive like the video shows than its fine.

[adamdeliyia]

ive got windows vista home premium on my inspiron 1520 laptop, and i want to format it because programs arn't working properly and its messing up, do i need a vindows vista home premium cd to format my laptop or will the vista software still be on my laptop after formating it

[natkolk]

Yes. You will need the CD to run through bootup. Then delete the contents of the hard drive, format and re-install Vista.

Make sure you save your information first onto a CD/DVD or External Hard Drive or something.

[parcero1815]

so this means that if you format a hard D it will delete everything in it right?cause i got a 40 gb driver and theres somethings im not able to delete or the hard drive itself wont let me delete,so i gues this would delete it right?

[natkolk]

Yeah that should do so. It will delete everything on the hard drive. Although you can't delete the hard drive with OS.

[blackfangkisser]

good job

[blablabla12312312312]

hey i only have one user on my computer and i am the admin but i think i have a bad virus or some system files have been deleted because i cant install files and i cant remove some. it says contact your system administrator plus i have just brought a new printer and the cd will not load on my laptop can any one help me please?

[DIEKEN22]

Thank you!!

[2pac057]

can i delet a virus with this?

[natkolk]

It is possible to take a virus down with this if it is on another drive other than the main C: Drive. If it is on C: then you will need to format with a CD.

[2pac057]

i cant format my c: but i do it not like you i just click format

[darkmage809]

can u take virus down with this formating ?

[natkolk]

Maybe. If the virus is on your Main C: Drive then you will need to format with a CD. But if it is on a program file on a separate partition then this format will get rid of it.

[Knoxxe]

i recently got a laptop and it didnt come with the vista disk, so i cant format C: but thats what im trying to do can you help me?

[natkolk]

It is possible to format C: with a floppy disk or a windows CD.  The only problem is if you format C: then you wont have an operating system any more so you will need to buy a XP or Vista CD to install. A computer store could maybe help?

[zippo69]

Thanks alot for the lesson, what accent is that?

[natkolk]

Australian Accent

[Luzioz]

when i press disc management nothing comes up?plzhelp

[natkolk]

I am not too sure. Is your computer really old? Maybe run in safe mode. Or type msconfig in your start bar, when the system configuration opens, press the startup tab and then press disable all. Restart and try formatting again. Hope that helps.

[Luzioz]

No my Comp isnt Old but i wanna Format C: and it wont let me delete it :s it allwork but i just wanna delete everything in C: btw my comp is Windows Vista Home Premium

[Jafetos]

best hard drive formatting video EVER!

[Malaikvavit]

Fantastic video with flawless instructions. Easy, efficient, and correct.

[blahblah3475]

if i format C://

with all files on it?

[natkolk]

If you format C: through the bootup like I said below, then you will delete all the files and programs on C.

[blahblah3475]

will it remove the OS(windows vista) and will i need recovery discs?

[natkolk]

It will remove the OS if you format through bootup. You won't be able to format C: from your Operating System. You need to insert your Vista cd and then delete and format C: through there. If you delete and format then it will remove the OS. If you have the OS on another drive say D: or E: or something then you can remove it like this tutorial says. Recovery disks are useful only for installing default programs that came with your computer, they aren't necessary.

[Tailsfan278]

what if my cpu came with vista installed and i dont have a disc?

[colaeclips]

spy*

[natkolk]

Yeah It should remove spyware and viruses. Unless it is a very clever virus. However, it would be rare that the virus is just on that part of the hard drive, if its on your computer it has probably infected everything. Cheers

[colaeclips]

does it delete virus and soy ware?

[DJRA88Z]

hey m8..

this isnt working for me please tell me how to do this and ill explain why its being crappy lol

cya

[pimpakalilpimp]

THANKS