How To Format: A Hard Drive From Bios

From that day on, whenever someone said, “Just format it from the BIOS,” Leo would smile and say, “Let me show you how it really works.” And he’d grab a USB stick.

“Okay,” Leo said. “I’ll just go into the BIOS and format it from there.” how to format a hard drive from bios

With the drive freshly formatted, Leo installed Windows/Linux from the same USB. It was like moving into a brand-new house. The Moral of the Story You don’t format from the BIOS. You use the BIOS to point the computer to a formatting tool on a USB drive. Leo learned the difference the easy way—by asking first. He saved himself from a common mistake: going into BIOS, changing random settings, and accidentally disabling his hard drive entirely. From that day on, whenever someone said, “Just