So he did what every desperate soul does: he Googled “how to format hard drive in bios” .
it said. “BIOS is not an operating system. It initializes hardware and boots a OS. Formatting is a file-system operation.” how to format hard drive in bios
That’s not BIOS , Leo thought. That’s a DOS prompt. Or a bootable USB. So he did what every desperate soul does:
He stared at the screen for a long minute. Then he laughed—a tired, genuine laugh. He’d spent two hours hunting for a feature that never existed. The BIOS wasn’t a magic wand. It was just the lobby before the real game started. It initializes hardware and boots a OS
The skull avatar user replied twenty minutes later: “Told you.”
The first result was a forum post from 2009. The avatar was a skull.
Still, hope is a dangerous thing. He rebooted, smashed F2, and found himself inside the blue-and-gray cathedral of his motherboard’s BIOS. It smelled like 1998 in there—literally. His CPU temp was 34°C. Fans spun lazily.