How to Format a Hard Drive under Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/2003/2008?

When we get new hard drive, we need to format hard drive before use it. Windows Disk Management could help us format hard drive but with the low running speed during the format. If we get partition magic free (Aomei Partition Assistant Home Edition) or partition magic pro alternative (Aomei Partition Assistant Pro Edition), we could not only change partition size easily but also experience its other powerful additional features like to format partition, to hide partition and so on.

Take several minutes to free download partition magic for formatting hard drive. And we introduce the steps on Windows 7 by partition magic pro for instance. You could get the same working method on formatting hard drive on Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 by partition magic server tool.

1. Launch partition magic pro and get the main interface which shows out the fresh graphic disk partition map with the functions list:

2. Right click the target F: partition and click “Format Partition” in the drop-down menu:


3. After step 2, we will get new window about formatting partition and select “OK”:


Pay attention here about formatting partition info:

• Partition Label: Specify your favorite name
• File system: Choose NTFS or FAT32 file system as you like—FAT32 is an older file system compared to NTFS, but it is simple and readable from a great number of operating systems, and also supported by a wide range of system utilities
• Cluster size: We suggest you do not change cluster size for avoiding unexpected error in the future

4. Click “Apply” to commit the changes.

Format partition is done, apart from the format partition, its hot features like to resize partition (extend system partition, shrink partition), create partition or delete partition and so on are helpful for managing disks/partitions for Windows XP/Vista/7/2000/2003/2008. Now, here we invite you go to partition magic free download page to get this useful program!