Various situations may arise when using a computer. One of them is the formatting of the hard drive, which is done through the BIOS. Many people think that this process is impossible, but it is not. To format the hard drive through the BIOS system, you need to do certain operations.
It is necessary
Personal Computer
Instructions
Step 1
BIOS formatting is performed with a floppy disk. Take it and insert it into the drive. Open the "Control Panel" through "Start", and select the option "Add or Remove Programs and Windows Components". A window will open in front of you. Click on the "Boot Disk" tab and click the "Create" button. Next, an on-screen instruction will appear. It is not difficult to create a disc, just follow all the steps. Then shut down the computer completely. Insert the bootable floppy disk into the floppy drive and turn on the computer. If the BIOS itself is booting from a hard disk, or from a CD, rather than from a floppy disk, then first install the boot from the floppy disk.
Step 2
To do this, press the "Del" button at the beginning of the download at startup. After entering the Bios, find the item in the "Advanced BIOS Features" menu and enter it. In the "First Boot Device" item, use the "PgDn" key to set the value "Floppy". Close the menu with the "Esc" key. Press "F10" to exit BIOS. Confirm the exit together with saving the changed parameters by pressing "Enter". Now, when you turn on the computer, if there is a bootable floppy disk in the drive, the computer will start to boot not from the hard disk, but from the floppy disk.
Step 3
A menu will appear on the screen. Use the cursor keys to select "No. 2. Start computer with CD-Rom Support". Press Enter to confirm the download. Wait a couple of seconds. When the download is finished, the command line “A: / ^” will flash at the bottom of the screen. Type on the keyboard: the command "Format C:", and press again on "Enter". After a warning appears about the possible deletion of all files during formatting, press "Enter" again.
Step 4
There may be another option. If the disk is completely new, then after booting a message will appear: "No hard drives found on the computer." Then type on the keyboard the command "Fdisk" and press "Enter". The process of partitioning the disk into sectors will begin. Create an MS DOS boot partition. After rebooting, do the formatting. After that, the HDD is ready to work, namely to install the operating system. If there is a bootable CD instead of a floppy disk, then re-enter the BIOS, which is described above. In the line "First Boot Device" insert the value "CD-Rom". After downloading, follow any messages that appear on the screen. Choose either NTFS or Fat32. NTFS is a newer file system.
