To format hard drive is fairly simple, you just need to bear a few things in mind. If the drive you are formatting is not the drive with Windows you can format from within Windows. Also make sure that when you format hard drive there is none of your information on that drive. If it does have Windows or your data you should refer to the article on reformat hard drive which will give a few more details that you should know. This is the process in Windows 2000.

Click on: Start >> Settings >> Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Computer Management >>Disk Management

Right click on the drive you want to make a partition on and select “Create Partition”. It will guide you through all the things you need to do to make a partition and format it.

Just create a primary partition.

Choose the maximum space if you want just one partition, less if you want to make another one later.

Choose a drive letter, or accept the default that the computer will give you.

Choose the file system. Windows needs NTFS, but you could also use FAT32. I would just go for NTFS, unless you have a reason for need a FAT32 drive, like maybe if you share data with a Linux installation on the computer.

Review the details.

Wait for a while as the computer goes through the process of formatting. (Could be a very long time on big drives)

Wait for it to finish, then all is done.

You now have a drive ready to use for anything to like. Not too hard to format a hard drive, right?