How to format hard disk via bios

Situation: Turn on the computer, and there "Blue Screen of Death". It is necessary to urgently format the hard disk, and there is no specialist. In this article, consider the method of formatting the hard drive yourself, without third-party help.

PERSAGE PC and immediately after switching on, press the DEL key to enter the BIOS. It happens, instead of the DEL button you need to press Insert, F2, F5, F12. The exact data can be found when booting a computer, the message is displayed at the bottom of the screen by type "To enter the BIOS press Del / Insert, etc." Immediately after these actions, the BIOS window will appear, where the transition by bookmarks is carried out only through the keyboard, not a mouse. Go to the tab "BOOT".

Now you need to configure so that when you turn on the computer, the download occurred not from the hard disk, but from the CD-RJM boot sector. To do this, go to the "Boot Device Priority" item. Keys F5, F4 Set the CDROM value to the first position.

We leave from the BIOS and save the changes by pressing the F10 key. Next, the computer will restart and the command line will appear (the black screen for direct communication with the "brain" of the computer through the commands). The easiest way to format the hard disk is to insert the installation disk with Windows. After the reboot, the installation of the OS will immediately begin, in which you will be asked if you need to format any partition. Select the disk with and the format button in the NTFS file system (Windows 7, Figure 1) or when installing Windows XP, Figure 2.

After the format is completed, the process of installing the Windows operating system will immediately begin.
Here is perhaps the fastest and most useful way to format a hard disk.

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