Formatting a Hard Drive refers to deleting everything that’s in the Drive. Sometimes the Hard Drives in our computer can get corrupted or they can get slower over time. Formatting the Drive can be a solution to these problems.

Before formatting as we know all data will be deleted so there are a couple of things that you need to take care of.

• Make sure you’ve copied all the contents of the drive to another location, preventing any data loss.

• Close any applications or files that may be running from the hard drive that you’re trying to wipe.

Now let’s take a look at the methods to format a hard drive in Windows 11.