how to reformat a hard drive to a ntfs

godsammit · May 22, 2016

I just built my PC a couple days ago.
I don't have an optical drive so I decided to install my os (windows 8.1) with a USB. All was going well until when it told me to select a partition none of them were compatible. I was in the GTP style and I need the NTFS style. Does anyone know how to reformat a hard drive to the NTFS style?

Thank you for helping.

Mattios · May 23, 2016

You should be able to format the drive through the Windows installation system from the USB, there will be 'advanced options' or 'format disk' or something on the select partition screen.

D_Know_WD · May 23, 2016

Hi there godsammit,

Alternatively, you can reformat it through the command prompt the following way:

- Once you are in Windows setup, press shift+F10 to bring up the command line.
- diskpart [enter]
- list disk [enter]
- select drive [number] [enter]
- clean all [enter]
- create partition primary [enter]
- select partition 1 [enter]
- active [enter]
- format fs=ntfs [enter]
- assign [enter]
- exit [enter]
- exit [enter]

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD

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