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Sometimes, your hard drive gets bogged or slowed down drastically from when you got it. There can also be software problems or virus infections corrupting and damaging the operating system files. You wish to start on a clean slate, so you decide to format your hard drive. Formatting a hard drive is setting up a empty filesystem on your hard drive, which will erase everything. Several tools and utilities can be used to accomplish the task of reformatting a hard drive or storage device quickly and efficiently.

It is recommended to backup your files to another storage device first, such as a flash drive, DVD, or external hard drive, if possible. Next, formatting can be performed within Windows using Disk Management or Mac OS X using Disk Utility. For Windows, it is recommended to use NTFS, as this is Windows`s main filesystem. In Disk Utility, select to use Mac OS Extended Journaled as the filesystem, as Mac OS X is only compatible with this filesystem. If you use Linux, the recommended filesystem for the OS would be ext4.

If you are formatting the operating system hard drive itself, you will need to use a Linux Live CD. The most commonly used one would be the Gparted Live CD, you burn the .ISO to a CD and boot from it during the computer startup. It has a fairly user-friendly Linux interface. From there, you can resize partitions, while at the meantime formatting your hard drive, accomplishing both tasks at the same time. After successfully formatting the hard drive, it is necessary to reinstall your operating system and copying back all of your important files from the storage device.

A reformat is always the fast solution to getting rid of viruses and malware that you just cannot seem to get rid of. There are two forms of hard disk reformatting, low-level-formatting and high-level reformatting. In low-level-formatting, all sectors on the disk are read and rewrote, offering slightly better performance. However, in high-level formatting, also known as a quick format, a empty filesystem is just set up with a boot sector. Through using some tools, data after a reformat is very possible to be recovered if you forgot to backup your important files.