Need help formating my boot drive

[-WHIZ-]

I am transferring my SSD which has Windows 10 OS on it and im trying to format but the format option is greyed out

 

[Guest]

On 11/6/2020 at 10:05 PM, -WHIZ- said:

I am transferring my SSD which has Windows 10 OS on it and im trying to format but the format option is greyed out

 

Just so I understand what you're saying, are you trying to transfer the contents of one drive to another blank one? If that is the case, you should be able to simply hook it up as a secondary and format it through File Explorer or Computer Management. Can you maybe take a screenshot of what you're looking at and what is grayed out?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On 11/6/2020 at 7:05 PM, -WHIZ- said:

I am transferring my SSD which has Windows 10 OS on it and im trying to format but the format option is greyed out

 

Open Command Prompt

 

diskpart

list disk

Find the SSD you want to format. Let's assume it's disk 1.

select disk 1

clean 

Select the disk and clean. This wipes all partitions currently on it. If you want to also securely erase the drive to prevent any of your old data that was on the drive to be recovered, use clean all. Clean all would take a while, maybe a few hours to complete.

create part pri

Create a primary partition on that drive.

select part 1

Select that newly created partition

format fs=ntfs quick

Format the partition to NTFS format.

assign

Assign a drive letter to your SSD. And you're done!