Using Disk Part

If you ever need to do some ole school disk formatting. This quick run should help!  From the recovery console or setup menu in windows open a command line and follow these instructions.

CMD> diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk (ID #)
DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly
DISKPART> clean
DISKPART> convert MBR (or GPT)
DISKPART> create partition primary
DISKPART> select part 1
DISKPART> active
DISKPART> format FS=NTFS LABEL=(Local Disk) QUICK
DISKPART> assign letter (C:\ or whatever drive letter you desire)
DISKPART> list volume

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