Would you like to learn how to format a disk drive using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to format a disk partition on a computer running Windows.

• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
• Windows 7

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Tutorial Powershell - Format a disk drive

As an Administrator, start an elevated Powershell command-line.

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List all volumes available.

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Here is the command output.

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Format a disk drive as NTFS.

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Here is the command output.

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Format a disk drive as FAT32.

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Here is the command output.

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Congratulations! You are able to format a disk drive using Powershell.