You don't format a (physical) hard drive, but a partition (a drive letter). A hard drive can contain multiple partitions.
- What partition (drive letter) do you want to format?
- What's on it?
- Why do you want to format?
- What will you be doing with it after the formatting?
Kees
That is, when want to format my hard drive, I (according to previous posts) right click on computer management, and select "Run as administrator" then open up the disk management and "format" will appear as an option in bold.
It doesn't.
Format is shaded no matter what.
I was able to get rid of a nasty virus checker that disabled my machine by forcing safe mode and garbage canning the virus checker, but I wonder if it damaged my machine.
Also, F8 doesn't work on this machine, it never has.

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