
The New Simple Volume Wizard screen will appear. Right- click on the unallocated space or the black bar and click on New Simple Volume.Ĥ. The bar color will be displayed in black.ģ. If you want to repartition and reformat the drive, right-click on the blue bar and click Delete Volume.

Note: If the drive shows a blue bar, it means that the drive is already formatted and may contain data. The drive that needs to be partitioned and formatted may show a solid black bar signifying unallocated space. A new window will show all the drives detected by windows. Right click on lower left corner of the Start screen and click Disk Management.Ģ. To partition and format a hard drive using Windows 10, you will use the Disk Management utility and follow the steps below to partition and format the hard drive: Procedureġ.

Follow the steps in this article to partition and format an internal hard disc drive.
