Question Disk format help

[N-flow]

Soo i have a hard disk which has a windows 10 installed on it,and i want to format it trough my other hard disk which also has a windows 10,i tried a lot of stuff but nothing works,please help guys!!!

 

[kanewolf]

Soo i have a hard disk which has a windows 10 installed on it,and i want to format it trough my other hard disk which also has a windows 10,i tried a lot of stuff but nothing works,please help guys!!!

What error do you get ?

 

[N-flow]

What error do you get ?

There is no error i just want to format it but i dont know how

 

[Lafong]

There is no error i just want to format it but i dont know how

Why do you want to format it?

What is the problem with the PC?

 

[TerryLaze]

First remove the sata plug from the disk you want to format to make sure that the other disk can boot on its own, change bios settings to boot from it.
If that works then plug it back in and remove the plug from the one you want to keep so nothing bad can happen to it.
Then boot from the windows 10 installation media go for an advanced install and on the disk selection screen just delete all partitions and shut the system down when ready.
Then plug both disks back in and you should boot into windows and the other disk should show up as an empty drive, if not type disk management into the windows tab and create/format a partition on the empty drive.

 

[N-flow]

Why do you want to format it?

What is the problem with the PC?

Beca

First remove the sata plug from the disk you want to format to make sure that the other disk can boot on its own, change bios settings to boot from it.
If that works then plug it back in and remove the plug from the one you want to keep so nothing bad can happen to it.
Then boot from the windows 10 installation media go for an advanced install and on the disk selection screen just delete all partitions and shut the system down when ready.
Then plug both disks back in and you should boot into windows and the other disk should show up as an empty drive, if not type disk management into the windows tab and create/format a partition on the empty drive.

Yes but when i try to format it does not work i cant click on it or anything because it has windows installed,i cant click on to the format option that's the problem

 

[TerryLaze]

Beca

Yes but when i try to format it does not work i cant click on it or anything because it has windows installed,i cant click on to the format option that's the problem

That's why you have to do it from the windows installation media and not from within windows, you delete the partitions and don't just format it.

 

[Lafong]

Yes but when i try to format it does not work i cant click on it or anything because it has windows installed,i cant click on to the format option that's the problem

Windows won't let you format a drive if that drive is in use at the moment.

If you are booted from a drive, you can't then format that drive.