2. Right—click the partition, logical drive, or basie volume that you want to
format or reformat, and then click Format.
3. Select the options that you want under:
• Volume Label. name the disk.
•File System, select either NTFS or FAT.
•Allocation Unit Size. select the allocated size of the disk that you want
to format.
4. If you are surę that the disk is undamaged, select the Perform a Quick
Format check box.
5. To compress files and folders on the disk, with NTFS volumes only, select
Enable File and Folder Compression.
To delete a partition by using Disk Management:
1. In Computer Management, open Disk Management.
2. Right-click the partition that you want to delete, and then click Delete
Partition.
To partition a disk by using DiskPart:
1. At the prompt, type diskpart
2. At the prompt, type list disk and then make a notę of the number of the disk
on which you want to create a primary or extended partition.
3. At the DISKPART prompt, type select disk// (where // is the disk number
of the disk where you want to create the primary or extended partition).
4. At the DISKPART prompt, type one of the following (where number is in
megabytes):
•create partition primary size=number . Or .
•create partition extended size=number . Or .