Format recovery software How to format a new hard drive

If you have a new hard drive or solid state drive, whether it is a brand new or you bought from others, you should format it before you can use it. If you have a hard drive formatted for other operating system, it may not be compatible with your operating system. The solution is to format it.

How to format the new hard drive in windows?

All the formatting operations should be finished in Disk management.

You can open the disk management by search for “Disk management” in the start menu, or find it in the control panel.

In the Disk management, you will see all the drive listed here. Find the correct drive which you need to format. You can figure out it with the capacity it shows here. And the drive that has not been formatted will appear as raw and without file system and drive letter. Right-click this drive and select Format from the right-click menu. Before you perform the formatting, you should make sure it is the right drive, or you will suffer a disastrous data loss on other partition.

When you try to format this drive, you are required to select the Volume label, File system and Allocation unit size. The Volume label is the drive letter of the drive. You can name it as you like as long as it has not been used by other drives. File system allow you to choose to format to NTFS or FAT file system. For the Allocation unit size, you can leave it as default. Click OK and it will tell you that format will erase all the data. Click OK to continue.

For a new hard drive, you need to divide it into several individual partitions. After you separate it as multiple partitions, the system will recognized them as several separate partitions. The partitioning can be done in disk management. Similarly, you can also choose to combine two partitions, and extend or shrink the partitions.

How to use format recovery software to retrieve the lost files?

As we have mentioned above, formatting will erase all your data on the hard drive. If you perform a quick format, you still have chance to recover the deleted files. While if you perform a full format, you can never recover your files back,. Therefore, you should remember to back up your data before you start to format your partitions. However, if you want to merge partition, extend or shrink partition, you also should keep copies for you data.

In case you have data loss before you can backup, as long as the data have not been completely erased or overwritten, you can try to use the data recovery software to retrieve them. No matter whether you can recover them or not, you should keep in mind to back up data regularly. If you want to format the drive where have data, you’d better avoid performing a full format.