After that you will see on screen following text: "WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with Format (Y/N)?" and if you really want to continue, type [Y] and then press Enter.

Your screen should display size of your drive and a countdown in percentage of formatting completed. Depending on your computer's speed and size of drive it can take from a few minutes to over 15 minutes.

When it reaches 100% complete, you will see a new message: FORMAT COMPLETE. SYSTEM TRANSFERRED. This message is to indicate that files required to boot your computer from hard drive have been copied from floppy to hard drive.

The computer can now boot from hard drive without a boot disk in floppy drive.

The last message that will appear on your screen is following: "Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?" You can either press any key to continue, or simply to press Enter. And now, you can finally begin to load your Operating System.

Keep in mind that you can receive an error message, which says "insufficient memory to load system files". If you do receive such message, do not worry. It is caused by lack of a memory manager loaded at boot and your PC can only access first 1mg of ram memory.

You can handle this situation with two options. The first one is to omit /s switch when formatting. You should do it by typing this: FORMAT C: and then press Enter. Then when format is complete, manually add system files to your hard drive by using this command: SYS C: and press Enter again.

The second solution is to load a memory manager in order to overcome this issue. If you don't have any you can easily download one from one of million sites on Internet.

You see, we have finally reached end of How To Format A Hard Drive and consequently – end of this article. Now you surely know how to format a hard drive. But, once again, don't play with commands if you are not serious about formating a hard drive.

Even if data is restorable you may do something wrong to your computer. That is why, you should be careful! And now, good luck!

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A USB drive is a storage device about size of your thumb that plugs directly into a USB port.

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