I recieved the message "disk in drive E: is not formatted. Format now?" after i returned to my apartment from visiting my mother over the weekend. The drive E that that message is referring to is ...

Step by step tutorial on how to format a Hard Drive or Disk. Use built-in tools such as Diskpart, CMD, Disk Management, etc, to format.

Last week, I discussed how to use this command on the various disk partitions on a hard drive, including the formatting of a disk partition.

You can partition a hard drive with Windows' Disk Management utility by shrinking the existing partition and formatting the new unallocated partition.