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?

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